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  • Seaway7 picks inter-array cable supplier for Polish offshore wind farms

    16 January 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Greece’s Hellenic Cables has signed a contract to supply inter-array cables for the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind farms in Poland. Hellenic Cables was appointed by Seaway7 as the key subcontractor for the design, manufacturing, testing, and supply of approximately 205km 66 kV submarine inter-array cables and related accessories for the Polish offshore […]

  • Site survey on schedule at gas field off Timor-Leste

    12 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    UK-based Baron Oil is set to kick off a site survey at a planned drilling location for an appraisal well on a gas field offshore Timor-Leste. SundaGas Banda Unipessoal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Baron Oil, has entered into contracts to conduct a survey at the planned drilling location for the Chuditch-2 appraisal well on the […]

  • Floating substation installed at French pilot wind farm site

    9 January 2024
    Business Developments & Projects

    Bourbon Subsea Services installed a floating electrical hub (FEH) at the EolMed pilot floating wind farm site in France in Autumn 2023, the company revealed on January 9. The FEH will be connected to the project’s three floating wind turbines on one side and to the export cable on the other to enable the electricity […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • Tidal test site in Massachusetts first in US to receive federal license

    22 April 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The BTTS stands as the sole tidal test site in the U.S. to attain this license. With this license, the turbines can directly feed renewable electricity into the grid.

  • Terna Energy secures survey permit for wind farm sites offshore Greece

    16 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Terna Energy has been granted one out of the two first exploration and survey licenses issued for pilot offshore wind projects in Greece. The two licenses refer to the area south of the coastline of the Evros regional unit and northeast of Samothrace that has been defined as a development area for pilot offshore wind […]

  • Carnegie reserves site for CETO wave energy device deployment in Spain

    8 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vision

    CETO Wave Energy Ireland (CWEI), a subsidiary of Carnegie Clean Energy, has inked an assignment agreement that ensures its access to a berth reservation agreement within the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP).

  • 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 […]

  • Potential site identified for Malta’s first grid-connected floating solar project

    2 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vision

    A site located within Malta’s territorial waters has been identified as the potential location for the country’s first grid-connected floating solar project, Maltese Minister for Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli announced. A preliminary market consultation (PMC) has been launched to assess the market readiness for nearshore floating solar technology projects, specifically photovoltaic farms, within […]

  • Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port picks Lhyfe to develop green hydrogen production site

    27 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    French hydrogen producer Lhyfe has won the call for proposals launched at the end of 2022 by Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port to develop a green hydrogen industrial production and distribution site in Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique). The call for proposals, concerning the provision of land located at the port’s industrial and logistics ecosystem in Montoir-de-Bretagne for industrial renewable […]

  • Ocean surveys wrap up at 450 MW Irish offshore wind project site

    20 December 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    The Sceirde Rocks Windfarm, developed by Irish Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (FST), a joint venture owned by Corio Generation and global infrastructure investor Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, has completed geophysical and metocean surveys that will inform its forthcoming planning application. The surveys were conducted between September and early November using purpose-built survey vessels operated by 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 […]

  • Lloyd’s Register approves H2SITE’s on-board ammonia cracking technology

    29 April 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Green Marine, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Technology, Vessels

    H2SITE has received approval in principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register (LR) for its AMMONIA to H2POWER technology for on-board ammonia cracking.

  • USV performs ‘first-of-its-kind’ fisheries research survey at US offshore wind sites

    8 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels

    Exail’s DriX uncrewed surface vessel (USV) has finished what is said to be a first-of-its-kind fisheries research survey for assessment of the impact on biomass and fish stock before, during, and after wind farm construction.  The DriX USV performed the survey offshore Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York for NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Research Science […]

  • AquaVentus: Imminent start of North Sea auction is essential for hydrogen ramp-up

    22 January 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Jörg Singer, chairman of German offshore wind-to-hydrogen initiative AquaVentus has called for a timely tender for the expansion of offshore electrolysis, saying that the imminent start of the auction for the Noth Sea region SEN-1, a 100 km2 area in the North Sea designated for hydrogen production, is a central prerequisite for the ramp-up of […]

  • US DOE allocates $6 million for development of tidal energy demo pilot site

    7 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two marine energy projects to receive $6 million for the development of a tidal energy research, development, and demonstration pilot site. A team led by Orcas Power and Light Cooperative (OPALCO), based in Eastsound, Washington, and a team led by ORPC, based in Portland, Maine, will share […]

  • New guidance to aid North Sea industry in managing CO2 storage sites

    1 April 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    UK regulator North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has published two sets of guidance expected to help the industry prepare for first carbon storage injection. The UK Government last year set out its vision for the carbon storage industry pledging up to £20 billion investment and suggesting that it has the potential to store the carbon equivalent of […]

  • 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 […]

  • Irish floating wind and wave energy test site seeking floating LiDAR services

    13 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Technology

    The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has issued a call for tenders for a floating LiDAR and associated provision of data for the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS). The scope of work under the contract that will be awarded through the tender includes the installation, operation, maintenance, collection of metocean data, and subsequent […]

  • End of subsea construction phase for German pipeline

    13 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Technology

    ABL Group has completed the marine warranty survey scope related to the installation of Germany’s Ostsee Anbindungsleitung (OAL) subsea pipeline, where the first gas feed-in is expected soon. GASCADE Gastransport contracted ABL to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services to supervise the transportation and installation (T&I) operations related to the 50-kilometer-long 48-inch (121.9 cm) subsea […]

  • James Fisher overseeing cable testing and termination at New York’s first offshore wind farm

    7 November 2023
    Project & Tenders

    As construction work continues on New York’s first offshore wind farm, James Fisher Renewables is carrying out its second contract for the project. Following the deployment of the company’s bubble curtain during foundation installation this summer, James Fisher is now engaged in the final cable work at the South Fork Wind offshore wind farm. The […]

  • In response to client demand, Rovco grows fleet with new survey vessel 

    24 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    UK-based Rovco has added a second hull-mounted survey vessel to its fleet, a move said to come in response to client demand for geophysical and geotechnical survey solutions. Rovco has entered into a four-year charter agreement with Glomar for the DP2 vessel Glomar Worker. “We are delighted with our Site Characterisation business unit’s year one […]

  • Cable fault site found but Finland-Estonia electricity interconnection months away from coming back online

    4 March 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy

    Elering has confirmed the detection of the fault location in Estonia and the duration of the out-of-service period for EstLink 2.

  • Green light for Inpex to carry out site surveys and drilling activities for CCS project off Australia

    1 January 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Inpex has received a seal of approval for an environment plan (EP), covering pre-drill site surveys, and drilling and evaluation ops off the coast of Australia.