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  • Metocean campaign starts at floating wind farm site offshore Scotland

    21 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group, and Subsea7, has launched floating LiDAR and wave buoys as part of the metocean campaign for the proposed floating offshore wind project off the northeast of Scotland. The survey, conducted by Fugro, will run for twelve months and produce insights that will inform the project’s design, […]

  • Rovco completes survey work on 1.4 GW Scottish floating offshore wind farm site

    23 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    UK-based Rovco has completed all survey work on behalf of Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn for the planned Cenos floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. The Cenos floating offshore wind farm is located in the Central North Sea, 200 kilometers off the coast of northeast Scotland. The geo-environmental survey was completed over an area covering approximately […]

  • Sulmara secures geo work at 1 GW Scottish floating offshore wind project

    20 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Stromar, a joint venture between Ørsted, BlueFloat Energy, and Renantis, has awarded Sulmara with a contract to conduct site characterization work at the namesake 1 GW floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. For this work, Sulmara will utilize the 60-meter multi-purpose subsea vessel Vos Gorgeous to carry out a geophysical investigation across the proposed wind […]

  • Fugro and Ocean Infinity complete work at 3.6 GW floating wind project in Scotland

    2 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    A geotechnical survey campaign has been completed at the Ossian floating offshore wind farm site in Scotland. Set to be located across 858 square kilometers of seabed off the east coast of Scotland, the project is a joint venture between SSE Renewables, Marubeni, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The site’s seabed is around 72 meters […]

  • North Sea platform electrification ‘key’ to unlock emission cuts from oil & gas production, says NSTA

    21 February 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    The NSTA has held a workshop on platform electrification with 11 major operators on the UK Continental Shelf and ten technology suppliers.

  • First geotechnical surveys completed for TotalEnergies and SSE’s offshore wind project

    12 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The first geotechnical seabed surveys for TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables’ 500 MW Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm in Scotland have been completed. Phase two of the geotechnical works is expected to commence later this year and should take around two weeks to complete. Seagreen 1A lies adjacent to the existing 1,075 MW Seagreen project and […]

  • BlueFloat, Renantis complete surveys at Scottish floating offshore wind sites

    9 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Preparatory survey work on four new floating offshore wind farms has been completed in the North Sea. Geophysical survey work was completed on BlueFloatEnergy and Renantis Partnership’s ScotWind projects, namely the 900 MW Broadshore project, located 50 kilometers north of Fraserburgh, and the 1.2 GW Bellrock project, located 120 kilometers east of Aberdeen. The partnership […]

  • Cenos floating wind project to perform surveys to revalidate NorthConnect data from 2017

    6 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects

    The developers of the 1.4 GW Cenos floating offshore wind project in Scotland are set to run a nearshore survey campaign in March to revalidate data collected in 2017 by NorthConnect, an interconnector project whose infrastructure Cenos planned to use to connect to the grid. Starting on 11 March, the export cable corridor surveys will […]

  • Scottish high-voltage cable factory plan approved

    22 January 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Vision

    Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric Industries has received approval for its plans to establish a power cable factory in Scotland. The Highland Council’s north planning applications committee approved the planning permission for the new high-voltage cable factory near Inverness last week. The development at Global Energy Group’s Nigg yard will form part of the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green […]

  • Buchan wraps up offshore site investigations for 1 GW Scottish floater

    15 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Buchan Offshore Wind, a consortium comprising BayWa r.e., Elicio, and BW Ideol, has completed offshore site investigations for the 1 GW floating wind farm in Scotland. Ocean Infinity, who commenced the surveying process for Buchan Offshore Wind in April this year, used the Normand Superior vessel to conclude the survey with cone penetration tests on […]

  • Nexans kicks off Moray West export cables pull-in work

    14 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Nexans has started the pull-in of the first of two export cables at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland. The offshore export cables were manufactured by Nexans at its factory in Halden under a contract signed with Ocean Winds in 2021. The Nexans Skaggerak and the Nexans Aurora will lay and bury the two […]

  • Oceaneering’s cable manufacturing facility granted Fit 4 Offshore Renewables status

    1 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Vision

    Oceaneering’s cable manufacturing facility in Rosyth, Scotland, has obtained Fit 4 Offshore Renewables (F4OR) status from the Offshore Wind Energy Council (OWEC) and ORE (Offshore Renewable Energy) Catapult. F4OR is a program designed to help prepare the UK supply chain to bid for work in the offshore renewable energy sector. The program aims to enhance […]

  • SSEN Transmission renews partnership with BAM and Siemens Energy

    14 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    SSEN Transmission has renewed its partnership with BAM and Siemens Energy regarding the delivery of onshore transmission infrastructure schemes. BAM and Siemens Energy will support SSEN Transmission in delivering onshore transmission infrastructure schemes, working to help deliver the substations that are required to connect the transmission network in north Scotland by 2030. The partners signed a […]

  • ‘World-first’ eco-friendly cable protection system deployed offshore Scotland

    23 April 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy

    What is said to be the world’s first eco-friendly cable protection system has been deployed at sea, The Crown Estate, UK seabed manager, reported. The UK’s Crown Estate announced that earlier this month the world’s first carbon-neutral and plastic-free cable protection was deployed off the coast of Scotland, in place of the traditional concrete protection […]

  • Boskalis wraps up its part of Moray West job, inter-array cable work underway

    18 March 2024
    Vessels

    Boskalis has completed the work the company was contracted to perform on the Moray West offshore wind farm. While the Dutch offshore construction company has now wrapped up its part of the job, work on Ocean Winds’ 882 MW project offshore Scotland continues with the installation of foundations and inter-array cables underway. Boskalis says that […]

  • Worley secures FEED work on 3GW hydrogen project in Scotland

    24 October 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    UK-based energy company Statera has awarded American-Australian engineering company Worley a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the first phase of its 3 GW Kintore Hydrogen project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Statera’s Kintore Hydrogen aims to harness surplus electricity generated by Scotland’s offshore wind resources to produce renewable hydrogen. The project was a successful applicant in […]

  • €850 million award for UK’s cable connection project lands on Prysmian’s order backlog

    1 December 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    Prysmian has tucked under its belt a contract win worth around €850 million for a high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable connection in the UK.

  • Survey activities for Scottish subsea link to take place until April

    11 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Marine survey activities are set to begin this month for the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL 2) subsea electricity superhighway between Scotland and England. The survey activities are planned to commence from Peterhead, Scotland, in December and continue in Scottish waters until approximately February 2024 before working south along the survey route to Bridlington. GeoXYZ […]

  • OX2 and Nordkalk planning e-fuel production on Gotland, Sweden

    31 October 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Sweden-based OX2 and Finland-based Nordkalk have announced plans to jointly investigate the opportunities for the production of e-fuel on Gotland, Sweden. Specifically, the parties will initiate a pilot study on how a facility should be planned, how the use of the area can be maximized and how the harbor of Storugns can be developed. According […]

  • Survey campaign wraps up at 2 GW Scottish offshore wind site

    2 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    A geotechnical survey campaign has wrapped up at an offshore wind farm site in Scotland being developed by Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie. According to the project’s latest Notice to Mariners (NtM), the geotechnical survey within the Caledonia offshore wind farm site was completed on October 31. The activity was […]

  • Inter-array cable installation completed at Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm

    22 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects

    Cable burial activities at the inter-array routes within the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm site have been completed, following the wrap-up of cable installation works in January. The pre-lay grapnel run (PLGR) along the inter-array cable (IAC) routes was completed in November 2023 by the vessel Pacific Discovery. The PGLR work started in March […]

  • Seven firms set for ORE Catapult-led Fit for Offshore Renewables program

    20 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology

    Seven firms from north Scotland and Orkney have been chosen for the first Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR) program in the region. The F4OR supply chain growth program, led by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, takes the companies 12-18 months to complete. The seven companies that were selected for the program are Ocean Kinetics […]

  • Smart Green Shipping: On-land testing of FastRig kicks off

    18 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Technology

    UK systems design house Smart Green Shipping has commenced on-land testing of FastRig, a wingsail that harnesses wind power to deliver thrust to the ship and can reduce shipping emissions by up to 30%.

  • Nexans wraps up export cable pull-in job offshore Scotland

    11 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    France-headquartered Nexans has completed the offshore export cable pull-ins for both offshore substation platforms at the 882 MW Moray West wind farm, located in the Moray Firth in the northeast of Scotland. The cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora took advantage of a recent period of favorable weather to carry out the task, according to Ocean Winds’ recent social […]

  • OX2, Ingka Investments expected to apply for second offshore hydrogen project in Sweden

    1 February 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy

    OX2 and Ingka Investments are expected to submit an application for another offshore wind-to-hydrogen project to the Swedish authorities, after the partners recently applied for a permit to build a similar project off the coast of Blekinge. The second energy hub combining offshore wind energy and green hydrogen production for which the partners are expected […]