The export cable at the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm has been pulled in. The cable was floated ashore on pillow floats to a small jack up barge then pulled through the tidal and connected to a winch for the final 760-metre pull through a HDD that had been installed 12 months ago, accordin
Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp, officially opened the Westermeerwind wind farm yesterday. Main contractor Siemens, together with its subcontractors and Westermeerwind project team, has erected the 48-turbine wind farm with 65 ships and barges in nearly one million man-hours. Mammoet a
DONG Energy will have invested GBP 5.4 billion in developing offshore wind farms off the coast of North West England by 2019, a new report has revealed. The overall GBP 5.4 billion investment includes GBP 2.7 billion investment across the four currently operational wind farms – Barrow, Walney, Burbo
The engineering consulting group COWI has won a contract to design the foundations for the Formosa I project, Taiwan’s first offshore wind farm. COWI has been tasked with preparing the detailed design of the wind turbine foundations for the Taiwan project which will involve designing the foundations
DONG Energy will build a new operations and maintenance (O&M) facility in Kings Wharf, Seacombe, Merseyside, to serve the existing 90MW Burbo Bank offshore wind farm and the new 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm, currently under construction. The facility will consist of a new office and
VBMS has completed cable installation and post-lay burial work at Vattenfall’s 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm, situated in the German Bight. The company installed a total of 76 inter-array cables within approximately two and a half months. VBMS deployed its multipurpose vessels Ndurance and Ndeav
Bard Offshore 1 marked another first for German offshore wind farms after recently generating 3 TWh of electricity since first starting to produce power in 2013. The wind farm has generated 1 TWh of electricity since November 2015, when Ocean Breeze Energy announced the wind farm reaching the 2 TWh
Finnish wind farm developer Suomen Hyötytuuli Ltd has launched a map showing progression of construction works at the site of the 40MW Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm off Pori. Seabed preparation works started earlier this month. The works include dredging and excavation to prepare the seabed for the
On Wednesday, the last three transition pieces for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm left Smulders’ yard in Hoboken. Smulders and Sif have been in charge of the production of the 67 transition pieces for the project, developed by Statoil, which owns the wind farm together with Statkraft and Masdar. “Th
The 20-mile submarine cable which will connect US mainland to Block Island and export the electricity generated by the 30MW Block Island offshore wind wind farm, is expected to make landfall at Crescent Beach, Block Island, in the next week or so, depending on the weather. The cable laying barge Big
Germany’s 8.2 Consulting AG has supported Quadran – Énergies Libres in the planned floating offshore pilot wind farm off the coast of the French region Languedoc-Roussillon by defining the Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental (QHSE) concept for the tendering phase. As the step from fixed offsho
DNV GL Americas has entered into a contract with Phu Cuong Group (PCG) to deliver a feasibility study for a USD 435 million, 170MW Phu Cuong 1 nearshore wind farm project, the first in PCG’s planned series of similar projects along Vietnam’s southern coastline in Soc Trang province. PCG, a private f
Topside and jacket of the high voltage offshore substation (OSS) for the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm left ENGIE Fabricom’s Hoboken yard yesterday, as they start their journey from Antwerp towards the site off the west coast of England. By the end of this month, the jacket and topside wil
Fife-based Burntisland Fabrications Ltd (BiFab) has won a GBP 100 million contract to supply 26 wind turbine jacket substructures for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm. The fabrication contract, awarded to BiFab by the EPCI Contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting, is due for delivery in two campaigns. 1
