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  • Nexans inks Seagreen 1 export cable contract

    8 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Nexans Norway has been awarded a contract for the supply and installation of export cables for the Seagreen 1 offshore wind farm, after being chosen as a preferred supplier in 2019. The Norwegian company will design, manufacture and install three 65-kilometre offshore export cables and three 20-kilometre onshore export cables for the 1,075 MW offshore […]

  • EOWDC to bring Aberdeenshire € 5.5 million each year for two decades

    15 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), also known as Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm and “famous” for being the offshore wind project the current U.S. President Donald Trump fought against, is estimated to bring the Aberdeenshire area more than GBP 100 million (around EUR 110 million) over its operational lifetime. Namely, according to a new socio-economic […]

  • XOCEAN USV to survey 588 MW UK offshore wind farm

    7 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Ireland’s XOCEAN is set to soon commence non-intrusive unmanned subsea surveys of the inter-array cables and turbine locations at the operational Beatrice offshore wind farm in the UK. XOCEAN’s uncrewed surface vessel (USV) X14 will begin the operations on 20 April for a duration of about 7 days on a 24-hour basis, weather-dependant. A support […]

  • Transmission charges a threat to UK green energy industry – Report

    26 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure

    Britain’s energy regulators are putting billions of pounds of green infrastructure investment at risk by overseeing an energy market which favours EU energy imports at the expense of home-grown schemes, new research has shown. Electricity generators in the UK pay transmission charges for the cost of building and maintaining the network, set by the regulator […]

  • XLCC picks German subsea cable test systems

    13 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Technology

    XLCC has appointed Germany-based HIGHVOLT as the primary provider of test systems for the prequalification, type and routine testing of subsea cables. HIGHVOLT has also been engaged to deliver a consultancy service and corresponding supply agreement for the equipment required to fulfill the testing program. This includes the design of the facilities required for the […]

  • SEA-KIT sends off second USV to Fugro

    6 July 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    SEA-KIT has sent off the second X-class uncrewed surface vessel (USV) destined for Fugro from Essex to Aberdeen, Scotland. According to SEA-KIT, the USV named Fugro Orca left Essex after having completed extensive sea trials. In March 2020, Fugro and SEA-KIT formed a strategic partnership to develop a new range of USVs which can deploy […]

  • Aker divisions team up for OWFs in Norway to decarbonize oil & gas

    27 October 2020
    Business & Finance

    Aker Offshore Wind and Aker BP have agreed to cooperate on realizing offshore wind in Norway at large scale, as well as accelerating the process of decarbonizing oil & gas assets. The parties plan to collaborate on concepts for the development of large offshore wind farms to enable effective offtake to oil & gas producing […]

  • Ofgem Launches New Tender Round for Offshore Transmission Links

    9 October 2018

    Ofgem is opening a tender for owning the electricity transmission link to the 1.2 GW Hornsea 1 wind farm project off the coast of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. The energy regulator runs tenders to own and operate links to offshore wind farms which cuts the cost of connecting them onshore to the grid for consumers. The […]

  • Nexans Aurora picks up first-ever US-made high voltage subsea cables

    30 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Nexans’ newest cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora has arrived at the company’s recently upgraded Charleston plant for the load-out of the first high voltage subsea cables made in the United States. The high-voltage subsea cable plant in Charleston, South Carolina, officially opened in November 2021, becoming the first such facility in the U.S. From the new […]

  • Nexans holds naming ceremony for CLV Aurora

    9 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Nexans and Ulstein Verft have held the naming ceremony for the newbuild DP3 cable laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the project progress has been steady and the vessel was delivered on time on 31 May, three years after the signing of the shipbuilding contract, Ulstein said. “The delivery of the CLV […]

  • BiFab to Provide Piles for Moray East Offshore Wind Farm

    7 March 2019
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    BiFab has secured a contract from GeoSea to produce piles worth up to £26.5 million for the Moray East offshore wind farm development. The contract represents the first for DF Barnes, following the takeover of BiFab, and will create 82 jobs at its yard in Arnish. Sean Power, vice president Business Development DF Barnes said: “This announcement is the first […]

  • Seagreen 2 and 3 offshore wind projects get new names

    7 July 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    SSE Renewables is renaming its Seagreen 2 and 3 offshore wind projects to Berwick Bank wind farm and Marr Bank wind farm, respectively. The move to rename the projects is to distinguish the two standalone offshore wind farms from the neighboring Seagreen 1 project, SSE said. According to the company, the new names are a […]

  • Export cable laying soon to begin at Moray East offshore wind project

    28 July 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    The boulder picking operations have begun at the export cable route of the Moray East offshore wind project in Scotland. The boulder picking work started on 24 July using Olympic Triton, while the export cable laying and trenching operations are set to begin circa 28 July. NKT Victoria will be laying the three export cables […]

  • Inter-array cable work set to start at Neart na Gaoithe OWF

    30 July 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Pre-lay trenching work along a number of inter-array cable routes within the Neart Na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm site are due to begin around 7 August, ahead of the installation of cables at a later date. The inter-array cable routes will be trenched by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) which will be deployed and controlled […]

  • EMEC named blue economy enterprise of the year

    19 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been named Blue Economy Enterprise of the Year having won the Rural Blue Award at The SHIREs (Scottish Highlands and Islands Rural Economy) Awards.

  • Moray West to start 2023 with export cable route UXO work

    30 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    A dive vessel, DSV Curtis Marshall, is scheduled to soon begin investigations and disposal of potential unexploded ordnance (pUXO) at the nearshore part of the export cable corridor of the Moray West offshore wind farm, close to the town of Portsoy. This work will be followed by the commencement of the first construction activities on […]

  • Six Moray East OWF foundations in, as ten more arrive in Nigg

    21 July 2020
    Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Offshore Heavy Transport’s (OHT’s) vessel Hawk arrived at the Port of Nigg on 21 July, carrying nine jacket foundations for Moray East wind turbines and one for the project’s offshore substation. The jackets will now be offloaded at Global Energy Group’s site in Nigg and will go through final preparations before Seajacks Scylla picks them […]

  • Neart na Gaoithe export cables hooked up to OSS jackets

    15 September 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    Offshore export cables for the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm have been hooked up onto the project’s two offshore substation (OSS) jacket foundations. The export cable hook up and burial campaign was completed on 2 September with the cables laid by the cable laying vessel Cable Enterprise and buried into the seabed by Normand […]

  • Petrofac names new senior staff for renewable energy growth

    15 June 2021
    Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy

    Energy industry services provider Petrofac has made a senior UK appointment to support the growth of its offering in the renewable energy sectors like hydrogen, carbon capture and wind.

  • Windhoist joins Moray East team

    4 September 2020
    Ports & Logistics

    Ayrshire-based Windhoist Limited has won a contract to provide local technicians to assist with pre-assembly works for Moray East offshore wind farm in Scotland. 20 locally-based technicians have been recruited for the project which commences this month and is expected to reach completion in September 2021. This marks the third scope of works Windhoist has […]

  • RPS Group: New Accredited Analysis of Marine Sediments

    4 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    With the ongoing investment in the exploration of natural resources and the harnessing of energy from wind and tidal power, there is an increasing focus on the environmental impacts these can have on the marine habitat, RPS Group – Oxfordshire based consultancy company said in their latest announcement.  In order to ensure environmental compliance and licensing […]

  • BP to form global floating wind team

    19 October 2022
    Business & Finance, Transition

    The original article published on 14 October has been updated following the news that BP has qualified as an eligible bidder for the first offshore wind lease sale in California. BP is advertising a new opening in its offshore wind business, this time looking for the Head of Floating Offshore Wind, who will develop and lead […]

  • Cable works at Moray East OWF in full swing

    5 November 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Inter-array cable testing and termination will start at the Moray East offshore wind farm around 11 November, with the first of the two campaigns for this work scheduled to commence then. The testing and termination works will be carried out from the wind turbines and offshore substation platforms at the project site some 22 kilometres […]

  • In focus: Offshore hydrogen steals the show once again

    24 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Transition

    In a world troubled by climate change and energy crisis, it has become clear that hydrogen will play a significant role in creating a low-carbon energy mix. Multiple studies have explored its advantages in decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors and boosting the security of supplies as new pilot and large-scale production projects emerge in Europe, with the […]

  • UXO survey coming up at Moray West offshore wind farm

    21 July 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    Moray West Offshore Windfarm is getting ready to conduct unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey investigations at the project’s site and export cable corridor. The offshore wind project is located on the Smith Bank in the Outer Moray Firth, approximately 22.5 kilometres from the Caithness coastline, offshore Scotland. According to the project’s notice to mariners, the works are […]