The first seven employment opportunities for managers and engineers to be based from the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm O&M base in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk have been posted on the Statoil website, Statoil being the operator for both the construction and operational phases of this 402MW offshore power pl
ABS Group Ltd. was recently awarded a quality surveillance and inspection services contract for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm project, owned by Northland Power Inc. and RWE Innogy GmbH through the Nordsee One GmbH joint venture. The contract will involve quality surveillance and inspection serv
Following the recent media attention given to Eneco’s Princess Amalia Wind Farm (Prinses Amaliawindpark) and its grout problem, the company yesterday said that hundreds of turbines comprised in first-generation offshore wind farms are facing this issue. The foundation construction of the Princess Am
The first foundation was successfully installed at the Gode Wind Offshore Wind Farm in the German North Sea yesterday. With this project, DONG Energy is building Germany’s biggest offshore wind farm 45km from the mainland and around 33km from the islands Juist and Norderney. Trine Borum Bojsen, Mana
Eneco will pay tens of millions of Euros in repair costs for its Princess Amalia Wind Farm (Prinses Amaliawindpark), according to Dutch media. In 2013, it was found that the wind farm’s turbines are no longer standing firmly, which created the risk that they would fall over. Eneco hired the company
Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm has reached another milestone in its construction phase. Following a successful installation of the first turbine tower 23 kilometers off the coast of Noordwijk and Zandvoort, Van Oord had installed the first wind turbine last week. Van Oord’s new transport and
FoundOcean has been awarded the contract to grout the 150 monopile foundations for the 600MW Gemini Offshore Wind Farm, on behalf of main contractor Van Oord. The project will be the first to use MasterFlow 9800, a new material jointly developed by FoundOcean and BASF. The grouting work will take pl
Installation of foundations and wind turbines at the Kentish Flats Extension will start on May 1, subject to weather conditions. On behalf of Vattenfall, GeoSea’s offshore wind installation vessel Neptune will be carrying out installation works approximately 8.5 to 13 km north of Herne Bay and Whits
Mainstream Renewable Power said today that its 448 megawatt Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in Scotland will use two recently launched technologies. The technologies include the new Offshore Transmission Module (OTM), by Siemens Energy Management Division and High Wind’s Boom Lock system to be d
Yesterday, Van Oord’s transportation and installation vessel Aeolus placed the first wind turbine at Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm. In the next few weeks, remaining 42 turbines will be installed and the wind farm is scheduled to be operational in August. Components of the wind turbines (tow
Osiris, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has successfully completed a long-term project started in spring 2014, carrying out a wide-range of services with cross-trained personnel on the 219MW wind farm, Humber Gateway, based 8km off the Holderness coast in East Yorkshire. The company provided a Co
Van Oord installed the first 60m turbine tower at the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm yesterday. The first 8 wind turbines were loaded onto the Aeolus during the weekend and now the work is in full swing. Van Oord will install 43 Vestas wind turbines. Eneco Luchterduinen is scheduled to be op
CCCC Third Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. has recently won the bid for the wind turbine foundation construction and auxiliary works construction and procurement of the 150MW offshore wind farm of China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) in Rudong. The contract is worth CNY 538 million (approx. EU
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc., has been awarded the contract for the turnkey supply and installation package of the inner array grid cable system for the 400 MW Veja Mate Offshore Wind Farm. The contract is estimated to be worth more than EUR 1
