2718 results found for 'monopiles'

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  • Fabricom Bags Nordsee Ost Foundation Maintenance Contract

    3 April 2014

    RWE Innogy has commissioned Dutch company Fabricom Offshore Services BV to maintain the foundations of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm over the coming four years. The contract includes the inspection and maintenance of the 49 jacket foundations of the wind turbines and the transformer substation, together with the monopile foundations of the measurement mast. […]

  • Japanese Company Buys Shares in Two Belgian Offshore Wind Projects

    1 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Sumitomo Corporation have completed the purchase of shares in two offshore wind farm projects (Belwind and Northwind) off the coast of Belgium from Parkwind NV (Parkwind). Parkwind is jointly controlled by its shareholders Colruyt Group, Korys, the investment holding of the Colruyt family, and the Flemish investment fund PMV. The Belwind project is located on the […]

  • Siemens Gamesa 8MW Wind Turbines to Spin Offshore Taiwan

    31 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has signed a preferred supplier agreement with wpd offshore for the 640MW Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan.

  • USA: Icebreaker OW Project to Use Mono Bucket Foundations

    2 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Technology

    The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) announced today that the Icebreaker offshore wind project, planned for the Ohio waters of Lake Erie, will utilize Mono Bucket foundations, developed by Denmark-based Universal Foundation (UF). “Universal Foundation’s Mono Bucket foundation recently emerged as one of the most promising technology developments in the European offshore wind industry,” […]

  • Van Oord’s hybrid cable layer debuts at RWE’s 1.4 GW offshore wind farm

    24 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) Calypso has begun installing cables at its first offshore wind project, marking its official debut. Calypso’s first project is RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, being constructed on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometers from the North East coast of the UK, which, with a capacity […]

  • Universal Foundation Joins Deutsche Bucht Mono Bucket Demo

    30 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Universal Foundation has entered into a contract with the Dutch marine contractor Van Oord. Under the contract Universal Foundation will provide services to Van Oord to support the installation of two Mono Bucket foundations at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind project, owned by Canadian power producer Northland Power. The contract was signed following achievement of […]

  • Arkona’s Corrosion Protection Gets Innovation of the Year Accolade

    1 December 2017
    Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    A corrosion protection process developed by E.ON and Ramboll and used for the first time on the Arkona offshore wind farm has won the German Renewables Award in the Innovation of the Year category. E.ON and Statoil’s joint project got the Innovation of the Year award from the Clusteragentur Erneuerbare Energien based in Hamburg. “The procedure developed […]

  • Noise mitigation system: First commercial operation…

    15 February 2013

    There are different restrictions for maritime pile driving operations in place in the North European countries to protect the local sea life. It is quite right and proper that there should be restrictions. However, it could be argued that it is probably not so right and proper that the individual legislation for each country for the restrictions is not […]

  • Offshore construction: It takes a giant to know a giant

    8 August 2016

    For the second 2016 edition of the Offshore WIND Magazine, we spoke to Blair Ainslie, CEO of Seajacks, on the company’s past and future projects, as well as the industry in general. Seajacks made its first dive into the offshore wind industry in 2009, when its jack-up vessel Seajacks Leviathan carried out the installation of Siemens’ 3.6MW turbines […]

  • WTIVs: Wind Turbine Installation Vessels: New optimism

    2 December 2015

    The rugby world cup tournament is about to start in England as this article is being written. Just as the rugby fans will have waited 4 years for the whistle to announce the start of the first match, England versus Fiji, so the offshore wind industry has waited eagerly for the whistle to start for […]

  • Nordsee One GmbH Opens O&M Base, Inks Service Contracts

    21 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Nordsee One GmbH officially inaugurated a new operation and maintenance base for the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm in Norddeich, Lower-Saxony, Germany, on Wednesday, 21 September. Nordsee One, which is currently being built approximately 40km north of the island of Juist, will be operated and serviced from the venue, which comprises offices, a control room, […]

  • Nordsee Ost Ready for Winter after Annual Maintenance Campaigns

    27 October 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Innogy has completed the annual maintenance of its 295MW Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm in Germany, including inspection of wind turbine blades and foundations, and maintenance of the offshore substation.

  • Deutsche Bucht Completion to Potentially Extend Into 2020

    7 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    The completion of the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm may extend into the first quarter of 2020 due to delays in the manufacturing of mono bucket foundations, Northland Power stated in its financial results. According to Northland Power, the installation of the two turbines using mono bucket foundations is expected to begin in the fourth […]

  • Fugro wraps up its first fully remote offshore survey inspection

    30 January 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Fugro has completed its first fully remote offshore integrity inspections campaign in the North Sea for the oil and gas operator TAQA Netherlands.

  • EnBW’s Baltic 2 Enters Final Stage (Germany)

    20 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The construction of the second offshore wind farm of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has entered its late stage: the “Goliath” installation platform left Rostock port in the early hours of August 16th. The destination of the “Goliath” was EnBW’s Baltic 2 construction area, which is located 32 kilometres north of the Baltic Sea island of […]

  • Mott MacDonald Wears Many Rentel Hats

    6 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    Management, engineering and development consultancy Mott MacDonald will assume a new role within the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm project, after the EUR 1.1 billion project in the Belgian North Sea reached financial close earlier this week. Mott MacDonald is lenders’ technical advisor on the project and will now provide construction and operational monitoring in an ongoing […]

  • Arkona’s Corrosion Protection Gets Innovation of the Year Accolade

    1 December 2017
    Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    A corrosion protection process developed by E.ON and Ramboll and used for the first time on the Arkona offshore wind farm has won the German Renewables Award in the Innovation of the Year category. E.ON and Statoil’s joint project got the Innovation of the Year award from the Clusteragentur Erneuerbare Energien based in Hamburg. “The procedure developed […]

  • Keel laid for first US subsea rock installation vessel

    23 May 2024
    Vessels

    The keel for the first Jones Act-compliant subsea rock installation vessel (SRIV) for the U.S. offshore wind industry, Acadia, was laid on May 2 at the Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The vessel was ordered by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) in 2021 and the first steel for the SRIV was cut in […]

  • Seaway7 signs $500+ million contract for East Anglia Three offshore wind farm

    30 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Seaway7 has signed a contract with ScottishPower Renewables, Iberdrola’s UK arm, for the transport and installation of foundations and inter-array cables for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm. The deal is worth between $500 million and $750 million, as per Subsea7’s definition of a very large contract and the classification of this […]

  • Study Shows Installation Method Strongly Influences Fatigue Damage of Foundations

    28 September 2015
    Research & Development

    ECN (Energy research Centre of the Netherlands) has released results of a test campaign that took place in June 2014 in the Bremerhaven where IHC IQIP, together with other industrial parties, measured the behaviour of monopile foundations under different driving methods in onshore conditions. Three piles were driven in the soil by hydraulic hammers of […]

  • UK: TAG Energy Increases Capacity at Riverside Production Facility

    11 May 2012

    TAG Energy Solutions has continued the development of its riverside facility in North East England to increase its capacity to deliver a wider range of offshore wind turbine project management and fabrication services. The Billingham-based company has significantly increased the size of its load-out and assembly area for the fabrication of substation topsides and jackets. […]

  • Mott MacDonald Wears Many Rentel Hats

    6 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    Management, engineering and development consultancy Mott MacDonald will assume a new role within the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm project, after the EUR 1.1 billion project in the Belgian North Sea reached financial close earlier this week. Mott MacDonald is lenders’ technical advisor on the project and will now provide construction and operational monitoring in an ongoing […]

  • Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit taking remaining Tyra jackets to recycling yard – gallery

    14 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Allseas is in the process of completing its scope of work in the Tyra redevelopment project by delivering two jackets to a recycling yard.

  • Van Oord installs inter-array cables at Hollandse Kust Noord

    21 July 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Van Oord has completed installing and burying inter-array cables at CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel Nexus and trencher Dig-It, a remotely-operated vehicle operated from Subsea Viking, have installed a web of 69 inter-array cables measuring 140 kilometres in total. The offshore wind farm is […]

  • 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 […]