2717 results found for 'monopiles'

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  • Vole au vent Gets Monopile Installation Set in Eemshaven

    23 February 2018
    Ports & Logistics

    Jan De Nul’s wind farm installation vessel Vole au vent arrived in the Port of Eemshaven last week to be equipped with a hydraulic pile hammer and a noise mitigation system ahead of foundation installation works on the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm.

  • Germany: Modular Vibrating of Monopiles for Offshore Wind Farm Riffgat

    26 June 2012

    Halfway June APE Holland started on the North Sea near the German island of Borkum with a special offshore project, vibrating 30 steel piles (monopiles) on which 30 windmills will be installed. The piles will be driven with the Super Quad Kong (SQK), an innovative and modular vibratory driver/extractor consisting of four APE vibros, which […]

  • Five Big OW Companies Test Vibratory Driving of Monopiles

    7 April 2014
    Research & Development, Technology

    RWE Innogy, DONG Energy, EnBW, E.ON and Vattenfall are running a one year onshore demonstration project near Cuxhaven on the German North Sea coast to validate the vibratory driving of wind turbine monopile foundations, in comparison and as evolution to current impact driving of these piles. The potential benefit is faster and more environmentally benign […]

  • The Netherlands: EEW SPC to Manufacture 75 Monopiles for Gemini OWF

    12 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects B.V. has assigned EEW Special Pipe Constructions (EEW SPC) GmbH to manufacture and deliver 75 monopiles for the Gemini offshore wind farm. The monopiles with a diameter of up to 7 meters weigh up to 850 tons. The contract was signed at the beginning of November 2013, and the financial […]

  • Industry first: DEME drills XL monopile into French seabed

    11 June 2021
    Technology

    DEME has installed the first drilled XL monopile at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm offshore France. This is the first time this technique has been used to install an XL monopile on an offshore wind farm. Although the first monopile foundations had to be conventionally driven, 73 of the wind farm’s 80 XL monopile foundations have […]

  • Monopiles Installation Completed at Teesside Offshore Wind Farm, UK

    4 July 2012

    Installation of the foundation monopiles for all 27 turbines at Teesside Offshore Windfarm has now been completed. Work will begin soon on the next phase of activity that will see the installation of the above sea level turbines and associated subsea cabling. The first stage of this will see the yellow transition pieces installed onto […]

  • Monopile Gripper Frame Fitted on Van Oord’s Jack-Up

    18 July 2014
    Technology

    Temporary Works Design (TWD) completed the design and assisted in the fabrication of a monopile gripper frame for Van Oord. The gripper is designed to keep the monopiles in the correct position and inclination, while counteracting the wave, wind, and current loads on the pile during wind turbine installations. The installation of the monopile gripper […]

  • Rotterdam Port to House New Monopile Vibro Drilling Tests

    1 April 2019
    Research & Development

    GBM Works, a TU Delft spin-off, is set to conduct pilot tests of a new method for installing turbine monopile foundations in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Together with project partners, GBM will conduct the pilot at Maasvlakte beginning in May or June by using a vibro drill method in which foundation piles are […]

  • All Borkum Riffgrund 2 Monopile Foundations Stand Tall

    28 May 2018

    Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has installed the last monopile foundation at Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm.

  • Hornsea Two Monopiles Order Lands on EEW SPC Desk

    11 July 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Ørsted has placed an order with EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) for 165 monopiles for the 1.4GW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • First Horns Rev 3 Monopiles Ready to Leave Esbjerg

    2 October 2017

    The first monopile foundations have been scheduled for shipping from the Port of Esbjerg to the site of Vattenfall’s 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm on 9 October.

  • Photo of the Day: Extra Muscle Needed for Nordsee One Monopiles

    7 October 2016
    Technology

    Schmidbauer GmbH & Co. KG has recently used a Modulift spreader combined with a 45m-long beam attached to a gantry and a crawler crane to tandem lift 750t monopiles from pontoons onto land in Cuxhaven on Germany’s North Sea coast. Schmidbauer was challenged by Cuxport GmbH to develop a solution for lifting the monopiles bound for the […]

  • Chinese monopiles begin journey to Vietnam’s offshore wind project

    7 October 2020
    Project & Tenders

    China’s TSP Blue Island has sent off the first batch of monopile foundations for the 310 MW Binh Dai offshore wind project in Vietnam. At the end of September, 31 monopiles began their journey from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, to the Vietnamese province Binh Tre. Binh Dai will comprise a total of 74 turbines, Siemens Gamesa […]

  • TWD Installs Monopile Gripper Frame on Van Oord’s ‘Aeolus’

    18 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Temporary Works Design (TWD) completed the design and assisted in the fabrication of a monopile gripper frame for Van Oord. The gripper is designed to keep the monopiles in the correct position and inclination, while counteracting the wave, wind, and current loads on the pile during wind turbine installations. The installation of the monopile gripper […]

  • DONG Contracts EEW SPC for Hornsea One Monopiles Job

    25 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Rostock-based company EEW Special Pipe Constructions has been awarded an order from the Danish energy company DONG Energy to manufacture 116 monopiles for the 1.2 GW offshore wind park Hornsea Project 1. The contract signing took place in Rostock on November, 21. “Due to the scale of the project, Hornsea Project 1 has changed the […]

  • Sif, Smulders to Build Rentel OWF Monopiles and Transition Pieces

    7 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Sif Holding has been awarded a contract for the production of all 42 monopiles and, in joint venture with Smulders, all the transition pieces for the Rentel offshore wind park. The contract has been awarded by GeoSea, a DEME Group’s subsidiary, responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract (EPCI) for the Rentel wind farm. […]

  • Van Oord Deploys Osbit Monopile Cleaning Tool at Walney

    17 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Osbit has delivered a hybrid monopile cleaning tool to Van Oord, designed to support the installation of offshore wind turbine foundations. The hybrid marine growth cleaning tool is currently supporting a project at the Walney 3 & 4 offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, where Van Oord has been tasked with installing 87 monopiles […]

  • Kentish Flats Extension Breaks Ground, First Monopile in Water

    4 May 2015

    The first monopile foundation at Kentish Flats Extension was installed yesterday morning. GeoSea’s offshore wind installation vessel Neptune, carrying two foundations, arrived on site on Friday afternoon, while the construction kicked off later that evening. “This is a great start to the project and puts us nicely on schedule which is a good sign for […]

  • The Netherlands: Sif to Deliver Monopiles and Transition Pieces for Humber Gateway

    14 March 2013

    Sif Group has secured the EON Humber Gateway contract for the manufacturing of monopiles and transition pieces for the part consisting of 73 wind turbines. ”Sif will manufacture the primary steel for these foundations and Eiffage JV will manufacture the secondary steel,“ wrote sales manager Richard Jongen in an email. The Humber Gateway wind farm […]

  • XL Monopiles for Gode Wind 1 & 2 Taking Shape

    14 July 2014
    Technology

    EEW in Rostock, Germany, is currently working on the 940 tonnes XL monopiles that will be deployed at DONG Energy’s offshore wind farms Gode Wind 1 and 2. The 66.5 meter long monopiles have a diameter of 7.5 meter and a total weight of 940 tonnes. According to schedule, the monopiles will be rammed into […]

  • H2SEA studies monopile-based structures for hydrogen offshore wind turbines

    19 January 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development, Technology

    Dutch engineering company H2SEA, in cooperation with the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), has performed an assessment of monopile-based support structures for hydrogen-producing offshore wind turbines. H2SEA says that one of the main questions was if decentral hydrogen production on a monopile-based support structure of an offshore wind turbine would be structurally feasible. The […]

  • ENGIE Fabricom studying monopiles at mystery UK offshore wind farm

    9 September 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    ENGIE Fabricom has secured a contract to analyze the current performance and suitability of monopile foundations at an undisclosed offshore wind farm in the UK. ENGIE Fabricom said it is carrying out cathodic protection and pH monitoring of the internal water within over 50 monopiles at a wind farm located on the east coast of […]

  • DEME commissions subsea drill for Saint-Nazaire OWF’s XL-monopiles

    2 October 2020
    Equipment, Infrastructure

    A tailormade subsea drill that will be used to install XL-monopile foundations at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm has been commissioned after passing Factory Acceptance Tests on 30 September. The drill, jointly designed by DEME Offshore and Herrenknecht, will be deployed at the French offshore wind farm site from the Innovation installation vessel. “Never seen […]

  • LDD Completes Monopile Foundations Drilling at Gwynt y Môr OWF

    1 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    LDD, an Acteon company, has successfully completed drilling monopile foundations for RWE Innogy’s Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm, North Wales, UK. LDD has been working on the project since 2011, when it designed, built and delivered one of the world’s largest reverse circulation drill rigs, the LD5000, within 10 months. Because of the pile […]

  • Sif Group Expands Its Production Capacity, Manufactures Supersize Monopiles

    30 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    In the future, the length and the diameters of the monopiles will continue to increase because wind farms will be located further out at sea, in deeper water and with more powerful turbines. Sif Group has anticipated this at an early stage by expanding its existing production capacity. Serial production of monopiles of up to […]