Dutch heavy mechanical engineering specialist Euro-Rigging has today delivered a pile gripper frame to be installed on Seajacks Scylla at the port of IJmuiden. Seajacks Scylla, the world’s largest wind turbine installation vessel, arrived at the port of IJmuiden on 14 March in preparation of its fir
First purely municipal offshore wind farm installed off German coast, Trianel Windpark Borkum, has been in operation for half a year now, and has generated 452.33GWh of electricity, with January 2016 as the month with the highest yield so far – 95.12GWh. Construction on the wind farm began in Septem
Iberdrola officially launched the construction of its Wikinger offshore wind farm today. Components for the foundations have been manufactured and the installation will commence in the coming days. The work will be done by using the installation vessel Giant 7, which is currently being mobilized in
VBMS has been awarded a contract by DONG Energy for the installation of 87 inter-array cables for the 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm. The total scope of work for VBMS will consist of route engineering, a pre-lay grapnel run, cable transport, cable installation and trenching. The project w
DONG Energy has signed a contract with the Cumbria-based MPM North West Ltd to supply crane parts for its 90MW Barrow offshore wind farm. MPM North West will supply lifting arms for davit cranes to the DONG Energy-owned and operated wind farm, located seven miles offshore, west of Walney Island, Bar
CWind has won a contract to provide a team of technicians to support Siemens’ operations and maintenance services at offshore wind farms in Germany. The recent contract win with Siemens further expands the company’s growth in the O&M phase, starting with service provision at the 288MW Meerwind offsh
Denmark’s Energinet.dk has selected the Copenhagen-headquartered ISC Consulting Engineers A/S as designers of two offshore substations for the planned 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. The design contract comprises fully detailed design and follow-up of a 200MW offshore substation – named Krie
Statoil has awarded a contract for marine operations at the 30MW Hywind Scotland Pilot Park to Technip Norge AS. Technip’s scope of work includes the transportation of substructures for the floating wind farm from Spain to Norway, and preparations for the installation of top sections and generators.
Finnish wind power producer Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy has chosen Jan De Nul as the main contractor for marine construction, and Prysmian Finland as the supplier of the undersea cable for the 40MW Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm in Pori. The construction of the wind farm will begin in April. The Luxembourg-
The offshore substation for the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm is almost complete and should be ready for load out by early April, Martin Zappe, the project’s Technical Manager said in a video interview shared by Vattenfall. The substation is undergoing final onshore tests in Aalborg, Denmark, Za
Sweden-headquartered Vattenfall has started development of the 1.8GW Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm project off the coast of Norfolk, following the recent agreement with The Crown Estate to take the project into the planning process. Vattenfall and The Crown Estate have also agreed to develop t
Horizon Geosciences has recently used its 200kN Seabed CPT system to complete a geotechnical site investigation for Vattenfall’s 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in the Danish part of the North Sea. Horizon’s scope of work centered around turbine locations and infield cable routes. The programme
The first three super-sized monopiles built for the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm arrived at the Dutch Eemshaven seaport on 10 March, with the remaining 64 giants soon to follow, Eemshavenonline.nl reports The monopiles were constructed in Rostock, Germany, by EEW Special Pipe Constructions Gmb
Lowestoft-based Sembmarine SLP Ltd (SLP) upended and jacked up the jacket structure for the offshore substation platform to be installed at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm at its Hamilton Road site this month. The platform comprises of a topside and jacket structure, the latter of which uses suction
