2718 results found for 'monopiles'

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  • UK: New Vessels to Arrive to Sheringham Shoal

    30 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      The state of the art crane vessel the Oleg Strashnov is due to arrive back at the Sheringham Shoal site early on Sunday morning, after a trip to Vlissingen in Holland to pick up further monopiles, and is scheduled to resume foundation installations next week. Currently persons on board number 162, although this number […]

  • UK: SMD and Blade Offshore Services Join Forces in SMD-BORD

    27 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      SMD and Blade Offshore Services (BOS)  announce the signature of Heads of Terms for a joint venture. Under the joint venture, expected to be called SMD-BORD, SMD will design and manufacture subsea remote drilling solutions for the marine renewable industry, offering a cost effective alternative to monopile and gravity foundations for wave, tidal and […]

  • Denmark: MT Hojgaard Teams Up with Seatower to Offer ‘Cranefree’ Gravity Foundations

    22 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    MT Højgaard, the company who have deployed most offshore wind foundations globally, have teamed up with foundation specialists Seatower to offer “cranefree” gravity foundations. The new foundations have been developed specifically for the deeper waters and bigger turbines that will soon become prevalent in European offshore wind projects. The Cranefree foundations come out of a […]

  • The Netherlands: Central Industry Group Enters Offshore Wind Market

    23 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Central Industry Group (CIG) is a group of 10 companies, all providing industrial goods and services to the international shipbuilding market and to complex architectural projects. Tailored to the client’s requirements, CIG’s high-quality products are renowned for their added value. While operating independently in their own product market combinations, CIG companies complement each other to […]

  • Offshore Wind Foundations – 20bn USD Business (Denmark)

    11 October 2011

      Considering availability and abundance of favourable wind sites – the expansion of wind industry is a foregone conclusion. Riding this expansion, the offshore wind foundation industry offers massive growth opportunity for players in the offshore wind industry and the offshore ecosystem. Wind Expansion to Offshore: A Technology Wave A report from the leading cleantech […]

  • DEME Announces New Contracts Worth EUR 250 Million

    17 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Within the DEME group recently, a great many assignments for large, energy-related projects have been awarded to a range of different companies. The assignments will be executed for oil and gas companies and businesses working within the renewable energy sector and represent a total value of 250 million EUR. In Santa Marta, Colombia, Dredging International […]

  • Houlder, MPI Offshore Install Pile Gripper Arms (UK)

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

    Houlder and MPI Offshore prove bigger is better by installing 650t pile Gripper Arms. The pile Gripper Arms, installed this week, stabilise 6m diameter 650t steel piles as they are driven into the seabed by the MPI Discovery installation jack up vessel. Installed on the vessel’s stern below deck level, they provide resistance to wave, […]

  • Douglas-Westwood sees troublesome outlook for heavy lift vessels

    13 February 2017

    Heavy lift vessel (HLV) contractors have faced a challenging market in recent years as the low oil price environment combined with a shift towards subsea installation and deepwater activity has seen fixed platform installations decline globally, Douglas-Westwood said in its DW Monday report.  According to the energy intelligence group, the number of fixed assets installed […]

  • Foundations Installed at Humber Gateway OWF

    7 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    E.ON’s £700 million Humber Gateway offshore wind farm has reached key milestone in its construction programme, including the successful completion of the first phase foundations. Twenty four foundations consisting of a tubular steel monopile have been driven into the seabed, creating the foundation bases for the turbines. The next major phase of work is set […]

  • Houlder, MPI Offshore Complete The Gripper Arms Project

    16 August 2013

    The pile Gripper Arms have been installed on the MPI Discovery installation jack up vessel. The Arms, installed this week, stabilise 6m diameter 650t steel piles as they are driven into the seabed by the vessel. Installed on the vessel’s stern below deck level, they provide resistance to wave, tide and current forces in water depths […]

  • BOS and SMD to Develop Underwater Drilling ROV for Wind Turbines (UK)

    27 October 2011
    Technology

    SMD and Blade Offshore Services (BOS) announce the signature of Heads of Terms for a joint venture. Under the joint venture, expected to be called SMD-BORD, SMD will design and manufacture subsea remote drilling solutions for the marine renewable industry, offering a cost effective alternative to monopile and gravity foundations for wave, tidal and wind […]

  • DeBu Debut for Universal Foundation’s Mono Buckets

    5 January 2018
    Research & Development, Technology

    Universal Foundation A/S will provide mono bucket foundations for the two demonstration wind turbines planned to be installed on the DeBu offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Houlder Installs Pile Gripper Arms on MPI Discovery (UK)

    16 August 2013

    Houlder has installed 650t pile gripper arms on the MPI Discovery jack-up vessel. “The challenge of handling offshore wind turbine piles has grown along with their size,” commented Frederic Perdrix, Chief Technical Officer, as Houlder delivered its latest piece of bespoke equipment. The pile Gripper Arms, installed this week, stabilise 6m diameter 650t steel piles […]

  • Construction Starts on World’s Largest Offshore Wind Project

    17 January 2020

    Preliminary construction on the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Wind Farms project has taken place this week near the coastal village of Ulrome, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Dogger Bank Wind Farms, a joint venture between SSE Renewables and Equinor, is made up of three offshore wind farm sites in the North Sea, Creyke Beck A , […]

  • DEME to install inter-array cables, secondary steel on OranjeWind project in Netherlands

    25 October 2024
    Business & Finance

    DEME has been awarded a contract to carry out the transport and installation of inter-array cables and secondary steel for the 800 MW OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Scheduled to start in the second half of 2026, DEME will deploy offshore and cable installation vessels, a hopper dredger and a fallpipe vessel, as […]

  • Minesto: Functionality of Dragon 12 megawatt-scale tidal energy kite verified

    22 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Minesto’s 1.2 MW Dragon 12 tidal powerplant has delivered as expected during its first phase of operation at its grid-connected monopile seabed foundation in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands, the Swedish company reported. The 25-ton Dragon 12 tidal energy kite was commissioned in the early morning of February 9, delivering the first electricity to the national grid in the […]

  • SeaQurrent prepares Wadden Sea test site for TidalKite lift-off

    6 July 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Dutch tidal energy company SeaQurrent has made progress with the preparation of the test site offshore the island of Ameland in the Wadden Sea ahead of the upcoming demonstration of its full-scale TidalKite device.

  • Ørsted devising ‘band-aid’ solution for €403 million cable issue

    15 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Ørsted is developing a solution that could potentially save the company from spending as much as €403 million to repair damaged inter-array cables across up to ten of its offshore wind farms. As previously reported, Ørsted discovered an issue with Cable Protection Systems (CPSs) on the Race Bank wind farm off the UK earlier this […]

  • RWE greenlights £ 3 billion Sofia offshore wind farm

    25 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    RWE has taken the financial investment decision on the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm project in the UK. The 100 per cent RWE-owned project represents a total investment of approximately £ 3 billion (€ 3.48 billion). The company is now poised to forge ahead with the construction of Sofia, with onshore enabling works due […]

  • Denmark: Jumbo Finishes Installation Project for Anholt Offshore Wind Farm

    10 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Jumbo has successfully completed the TP-installation (Transition Pieces) for the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, off the Danish coast. Jumbo’s DP2 Heavy Lift Vessel Jumbo Javelin installed the 111 TP’s with a record-breaking installation rate of 3 TP’s per day. The transport, installation, access to the TP’s and grouting was done without any Lost Time Injuries […]

  • Humber Gateway OWF: 24 Foundations Installed, More Workers Needed

    7 February 2014

    The first phase of foundations installation at the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm has been successfully completed. Twenty four foundations consisting of a tubular steel monopile have been driven into the seabed, creating the foundation bases for the turbines. Now, this GBP 700 million offshore wind project reached key milestone in its construction programme, E.ON […]

  • UK: Tag Names New CEO

    23 October 2013

    TAG Energy Solutions has welcomed experienced marine and offshore construction specialist, Stuart Oakley, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Stuart joins the North East England-based company from an emerging offshore accommodations group in the Netherlands and brings considerable senior executive and management experience from his career in the subsea and deep-water field development sectors. After […]

  • UK: Mabey Bridge’s Renewables Business Grows

    29 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    The new-in-post senior management team appointed by wind turbine tower manufacturer Mabey Bridge to oversee an expansion in the company’s renewables interests has hit the ground running – securing orders for more than 30 towers in just two months. Among the key contracts, won since the formation of Mabey Bridge’s new business line – Mabey […]

  • GE and Göteborg Energi to Install 4.1 MW Offshore Wind Turbine at Gothenburg Harbour (Sweden)

    1 December 2011

    GE  and Göteborg Energi have started installing the first 4.1-113 Offshore Turbine in the Gothenburg harbour, the two companies announced at the European Wind Energy Association’s EWEA Offshore 2011 in Amsterdam. The new turbine will produce enough electricity to supply 3000 Swedish homes per year and reduces 15,000 tons of CO2 emissions, which is equivalent […]

  • New Vessels to Arrive to Sheringham Shoal (UK)

    30 May 2011

      The state of the art crane vessel the Oleg Strashnov is due to arrive back at the Sheringham Shoal site early on Sunday morning, after a trip to Vlissingen in Holland to pick up further monopiles, and is scheduled to resume foundation installations next week. Currently persons on board number 162, although this number […]