2718 results found for 'monopiles'

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  • Transformer Lands on Northwester 2 Substation Topside

    23 April 2019
    Storage

    Bladt Industries has installed the transformer on the offshore substation built for the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in Belgium. According to the Danish company, three cranes were necessary for the installation of the 235t transformer on the substation. To remind, the substation topside began its journey towards Bladt’s premises in Aalborg from Mostostal Pomorze in […]

  • Photo of the Day: Innovation Gets Jacked

    28 August 2019

    DEME Group’s jack-up vessel Innovation is undergoing a final stage of a maintenance and repair program at the Damen Verolme yard in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The photo shows the vessel during full height jacking trials at the yard. Following the jacking trials and final tests, Innovation will head to ”a full schedule of work”, which […]

  • Photo of the Day: Nordsee One Foundations Falling into Place

    26 January 2016

    RWE AG has shared a photo of the world’s biggest jack-up vessel in operation, Innovation, installing one of 54 foundations at the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm in the German waters of the North Sea. The installation work is being carried out by GeoSea, part of DEME Group. The contract includes the installation of all monopile foundations and […]

  • Blue Tern En Route to Trianel Windpark Borkum II

    4 March 2020

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Blue Tern is on its way to the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm loaded with the first batch of turbine components. Blue Tern was contracted to finish installing the remaining 11 Senvion turbines on the project offshore Germany, replacing Jan De Nul’s Taillevent which is reportedly on its way to start a […]

  • MPI Resolution to Remove RWE’s IJmuiden Met Mast

    15 January 2016

    MPI Offshore’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) MPI Resolution has been contracted by RWE for the removal of the IJmuiden Met Mast. In 2011, RWE installed the 100m high met mast in waters up to about 26m, approximately 85 km off the Dutch coast. The mast was built on a monopile foundation consisting of a […]

  • CAPE Holland Tests Decommissioning Tool

    7 December 2016

    CAPE Holland extracted a wind turbine foundation monopile at the Maasvlakte area in Rotterdam last week, as part of a demonstration project for its CAPE Vibro Lifting Tool (VLT). The 4m diameter pile was installed in May 2016 for the purpose of demonstration, which resulted in loosening and extracting the pile completely in 12 minutes. Although a single CV-320 […]

  • EEW SPC, Bladt Industries Supply Foundations for Cape Wind OWF

    5 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    The German company EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH and the Danish company Bladt Industries A/S recently signed the contract to supply the foundations for the first offshore wind park in the United States. Both companies hold a lot of experience, and have manufactured foundations for offshore wind parks all across Europe and both companies are […]

  • Correll Services joins Subsea 7 on Virginia offshore wind demo project

    29 April 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Correll Services has secured a contract by Subsea 7 US LLC for cable pull, termination and testing works on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) demonstration project. “The award of this contract has provided an opportunity to demonstrate a concept we’ve been considering for a long time,” said Managing Director Sam Dowey. “We‘re convinced that […]

  • DEME’s Orion Sails to Europe for Final Outfitting

    15 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    DEME’s new offshore installation vessel ‘Orion’ is on the way to Europe for the final construction phase. In a few weeks Orion will arrive in Rostock, Germany where it will be equipped with a Liebherr crane with a lifting capacity of 5,000 tonnes. The vessel was launched in November last year at the COSCO Qidong […]

  • W3G Marine’s HydroNAS Cuts Underwater Noise

    23 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Supported by Vattenfall and Geosea, W3G Marine recently achieved an underwater noise reduction of 25dB in SEL (Sound Exposure Level) and 35dB in peak pressure using its patented HydroNAS™ system. The trial was conducted during the installation of a 5m diameter monopile with no energy restriction, using an S1200 hammer. The result confirms numerical modelling […]

  • Scaled NEMOS-device on trials in Nantes

    18 December 2014
    Research & Development, Technology

    The tests of the 1:5 scaled NEMOS-device are being conducted at ECN, in one of the biggest wave tanks in the world, in Nantes. As a result of the precise adjustments and reproducibility of wave conditions provided by the ECN, extensive hydromechanical parameter studies can be made. More than 200 tests are to be conducted, […]

  • Jan De Nul Installs Nobelwind OHVS Transition Piece

    2 August 2016
    Storage

    Jan De Nul has installed the transition piece which will support the Offshore High Voltage Station (OHVS) on the ‎Nobelwind‬ ‪offshore‬ ‪‎wind far‬m in the Belgian part of the North Sea. The 165 MW Nobelwind offshore wind farm is expected to be completed in the second half of 2017 and will feature 50 Vestas V112-3.3MW turbines […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Starts Rolling Out Rentel Nacelles

    16 February 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Siemens Gamesa has rolled out the first D7 nacelle for the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm from its new production facility in Cuxhaven, Germany.

  • Geosea Secures Workforce for Vattenfall

    7 May 2015

    Vattenfall has awarded the EPCI contract to Geosea NV to supply manpower for the secondary works on the monopile foundations for the Kentish Flats Extension. After securing the contract from Vattenfall, Geosea selected GEOEXO from a tender bid of among over 20 companies to supply three teams of Rope Access, Painters and Inspectors. “To win the […]

  • Suction Bucket Triumph at Borkum Riffgrund 2

    31 July 2018
    Ports & Logistics

    GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed the last of the twenty suction bucket jacket foundations on Orsted’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Zaratan Geared Up for Formosa 1 Phase 2

    22 March 2019

    Seajacks’ self-propelled jack-up vessel Zaratan has departed for Taiwan ready to begin installation of the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind project. Zaratan will install all 20 Siemens Gamesa SWT-6.0-154 turbines on the 120MW wind farm in the Taiwan Strait in what is the first renewables contract for Seajacks outside Europe. The project is located around six kilometers off […]

  • Denmark: Bladt Finishes Foundations for 6 MW Gunfleet Sands Wind Turbines

    29 August 2012

    On Friday afternoon, August 24, the employees at Bladt finished the two transition pieces that the company has fabricated for DONG Energy. The two 350 tonnes transition pieces and the monopiles, each 406 tonnes of weight, make up the foundations for two of Siemens’ new 6 MW wind turbines that will be tested at Gunfleet […]

  • The Netherlands: Van Oord Wins Luchterduinen Offshore Wind Farm Contract

    22 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Van Oord has been awarded the construction of the offshore wind park Luchterduinen. The wind farm will be located 23 kilometres from the Dutch coast between Noordwijk and Zandvoort. Client is the joint venture between Eneco and Mitsubishi Corporation. The 43 wind turbines will have a combined capacity of 129 megawatts and will generate green […]

  • Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Project Nears Construction Start

    19 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    EDF Renouvelables and Enbridge have held a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. Eolien Maritime France (EMF), a consortium of EDF Renouvelables and Enbridge, is developing the Saint-Nazaire project some 12km off the coast of Loire-Atlantique. The 480MW wind farm will feature 80 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines manufactured in […]

  • Huadian Wins Deal for SPIC Binhai South H3

    9 August 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Huadian Heavy Industries has secured contracts with Binhai Smart Wind Power for work at the SPIC Binhai South H3 offshore wind project in China. The Chinese company has been selected as the main EPC contractor for the construction and installation of a part of the project’s facilities and equipment. According to Huadian, the work is expected to […]

  • Sea Challenger carrying one of last turbine sets to Borssele 1 & 2

    25 August 2020
    Vessels

    Sea Challenger has left the port of Esbjerg with one of the last batches of turbines for the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm. DEME’s vessel is working in tandem with its sister vessel Sea Installer on the installation of 94 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines at the site in the Dutch part of […]

  • DEME’s New Installation Vessel ‘Orion’ Launched in China

    21 November 2018

    DEME’s new offshore installation vessel ‘Orion’ has been launched at the COSCO Qidong shipyard in China on Wednesday. Orion will be deployed for the construction of the offshore wind farms, to service the oil and gas industry and for the decommissioning of offshore installations. With a total installed capacity of 44,180 kW, Orion will be […]

  • Global Offshore lays Kriegers Flak inter-array cables

    4 March 2021
    Project & Tenders

    Global Offshore has laid all of the inter-array cables at Vattenfall’s Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Danish Baltic Sea. Using the cable lay vessel Normand Clipper, Global Offshore has now installed all 72 inter-array cables at the 605 MW wind farm. This is an interim milestone on the project, Global Offshore said, as […]

  • Jan De Nul Wins Borkum Riffgrund 2 Foundations Setup Gig

    13 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Jan De Nul has signed a contract with Dong Energy for the transport and installation of 36 monopiles and transition pieces for the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 2 in German territorial waters. Additionally, the Group was also awarded the supply, transport and installation of scour protection for all foundations. “Signing this contract with DONG, […]

  • Coda Octopus Sonar to Monitor Chinese Offshore Wind Farms

    30 January 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Underwater technologies specialist Coda Octopus has partnered with the Chinese offshore wind contractor AVIC IET to integrate the Echoscope4G Surface real-time 3D sonar on an Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV). AVIC IET will now be able to autonomously control their vehicle and the Echoscope4G Surface with its integrated Pan and Tilt rotator (IPT), to survey subsea […]