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  • Offshore wind firm expands with acquisition of ‘highly complementary’ subsea company

    22 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Vision

    Offshore wind services company Venterra Group has acquired Oceanscan Holdings Limited, a group of companies that provide subsea and non-destructive test equipment, geotechnical services and specialist personnel to the offshore energy market. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Aberdeen with overseas subsidiaries in Houston and Singapore, Oceanscan is said to be “highly complementary” to Venterra’s […]

  • To back energy transition, Shearwater and XOCEAN unite for CCS and offshore wind

    11 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Building on the joint delivery of several large data campaigns, Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices and Ireland-based XOCEAN have set up a strategic collaboration to provide integrated data solutions to the carbon capture and storage (CCS) and offshore wind markets. The collaboration will combine Shearwater’s high-resolution seismic imaging expertise with XOCEAN’s ultra-low impact multi-disciplined uncrewed surface vessels […]

  • 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 […]

  • Seabed surveys start for 2 GW ScotWind offshore wind projects

    6 April 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) has launched seabed surveys for its 1 GW Ayre floating offshore wind farm and the 1 GW Bowdun offshore wind farm in Scotland. G-tec is leading the first phase of the work, which is the geophysical surveying of the seabed at both sites, in leasing zones NE2 and E3, from March […]

  • Permitting process starts for BorWin4 offshore wind grid connection in Germany

    7 March 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects

    After filing the documents for the public planning procedure for the section of the BorWin4 offshore grid connection that lies in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in 2021, German transmission system operator Amprion has now announced that the approval process at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has started. In the spring of 2021, Amprion […]

  • Vos Prodect cable hang-offs for Danish offshore wind farms

    20 October 2022
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Hellenic Cables has awarded Vos Prodect with a contract to deliver its sealed cable hang-off systems for the Vesterhav Nord and Syd offshore wind farms in the Danish North Sea. Vos Prodect said it will perform an extensive test program at the testing facility using the 66kV cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) insulated inter-array cables. According to […]

  • Vietnam could snooze offshore wind survey permitting to overhaul the system

    12 October 2022
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has proposed to suspend processing offshore wind survey applications until existing regulatory and technical issues are solved. The proposal comes shortly after the Ministry recommended an overhaul of its administrative system, including abolishing and/or simplifying 153 out of a total of 178 administrative procedures it reviewed.

  • 4.1 GW Scottish offshore wind site soon to buzz with activity

    29 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    SSE Renewables is set to soon return to the 4.1 GW Berwick Bank Wind Farm located off the east coast of Scotland to commence further geotechnical survey work. Fugro is in charge of carrying out the work and will use the 83-meter long Fugro Scout. The survey is planned to mobilize between 7 and 10 […]

  • Lithuania preliminarily confirms seabed suitability for offshore wind farm construction

    26 August 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    Initial surveys of the area that the Lithuanian Government designated for the country’s first offshore wind farm have shown that the seabed there is suitable for the development of this type of project.   Geophysical and geotechnical investigations of the seabed are being carried out by Geobaltic and Garant Diving, operating under a joint contract, […]

  • Dutch company develops offshore wind-powered hydrogen production platform

    8 August 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Technology

    The Netherlands-based engineering company Iv-Offshore & Energy has developed a platform that uses offshore wind energy to produce 85 kilotonnes of hydrogen per year. With a capacity of 500 MW, the platform can produce enough green hydrogen in a single day to power more than 300,000 hydrogen cars to drive at least 100 kilometres, the […]

  • Seabed survey completed for 1 GW Irish offshore wind project

    14 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    XOcean has completed a seabed survey for SSE Renewables at the proposed Setanta Wind Park site, formerly Braymore Wind Park, off the coast of Ireland using its fleet of Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs). The survey, utilising multi-beam echo-sounder sensors, will be used to characterise the seabed in this area of the Irish Sea and will […]

  • European utility probing market for Tier 1 offshore wind contractors

    30 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    A European electricity company has invited component manufacturers and services providers to engage in a preliminary market consultation to determine the current market capabilities within the offshore wind industry before the start of the potential procurement process.

  • Scotland’s 4.1 GW offshore wind project ready for geotechnical surveys

    26 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    SSE Renewables is set to soon kick off further geotechnical survey work at the Berwick Bank Wind Farm located off the east coast of Scotland. The first phase which will include a borehole survey is planned to mobilize between 29 January and 1 February, with the completion expected by 22 February. The second phase will […]

  • European governments and industry join forces to accelerate offshore wind deployment

    8 April 2022
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Thirty parties ranging from wind energy companies to national governments, grid operators, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have signed an agreement outlining their commitment to work together for the accelerated deployment of offshore wind in Europe. The Governments of Spain, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Estonia and Lithuania, alongside the TSOs National Grid Ventures, Elia, […]

  • RVO Masterclass: Dutch know-how for bright offshore wind future

    15 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The Government of the Netherlands has held a high-level masterclass session dedicated to offshore wind sector, where it showcased how many different elements – from policy, across tendering process, and all the way to project delivery – tie into a successful energy transition story when they are designed in accordance with the industry requirements.

  • Ridgeway to provide cable protection for France’s first offshore wind farm

    9 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Belfast-headquartered Ridgeway has secured a contract to supply Rockbags, also known as Kyowa Filter Units, for cable protection for the 480 MW Saint Nazaire wind farm offshore France. Saint Nazaire – an offshore wind farm being developed in the Loire-Atlantique region of France and owned by EDF Renewables and EIH S.à r.l. (a joint venture […]

  • EDF performs autonomous foundation inspection at Blyth offshore wind farm

    23 May 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    EDF Renewables has carried out what is believed to be the first autonomous wind farm foundation inspection by deploying a customised remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at the Blyth offshore wind farm in the UK. Equipped and operated from the Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA) Hub, the ROV carried out visual inspections of the […]

  • First turbines assembled for Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm

    23 May 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    The first wind turbines have been assembled for the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm offshore Norway, Siemens Gamesa said. The 94.6 MW Hywind Tampen will feature a total of 11 Siemens Gamesa 8.6 MW wind turbines installed on concrete SPAR-type floating foundations some 140 kilometres off the Norwegian coast, in water depths of between 260 […]

  • First subsidy-free offshore wind farm starts taking shape

    14 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Project & Tenders

    A truly pioneering offshore wind project, the first to be built without government subsidies, has reached a major milestone with the start of offshore construction work. The offshore work started earlier this month with the installation of the scour protection at the first of the 140 monopile foundation locations at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust […]

  • Export cable in place at Changle Area C offshore wind site

    19 May 2021
    Project & Tenders

    SB Submarine Systems’ (SBSS) cable installation barge Fu Yong 6 has completed the installation of the export cable at the Changle Area C offshore wind site in China. Fu Yong 6 carried out the installation of 38.9 kilometers of cable with burial of three meters at the site located off the coast of the Fujian […]

  • MMA completes survey work at Formosa 2 offshore wind farm

    11 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    MMA has completed a survey work scope at Formosa 2 offshore wind project located off the coast of Taiwan.

  • Lithuania pours € 7.5 million into preparation for first offshore wind tender

    3 December 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Lithuanian government has allocated € 7.5 million to prepare for its first offshore wind tender and the development of the first 700 MW of offshore wind capacity in its part of the Baltic Sea. The funds will support environmental impact assessments and other studies and surveys to be carried out from 2021 until 2023 in […]

  • Prysmian picks First Subsea CPS for Fécamp offshore wind farm

    20 November 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    First Subsea has won the contract to provide the cable protection systems (CPSs) for the inter-array cables at the 71-turbine Fécamp wind farm offshore Normandy, France. Prysmian Group will manufacture and deliver the inter-array cables for the project. The Italian cable maker selected First Subsea CPSs to protect the cables from burial to the entry […]

  • Fred. Olsen and Hafslund Eco come together for Norway’s offshore wind

    17 November 2020
    Business & Finance

    Fred. Olsen Renewables (FORAS) and Hafslund Eco have entered into an agreement to collaborate for the offshore wind sector in Norway. FORAS and Hafslund Eco plan to jointly submit a pre-application for the development of offshore wind projects at the Sørlige Nordsjø and Utsira Nord areas. According to the parties, the 50:50 agreement will see […]

  • New European coalition targets more sustainable offshore wind development

    17 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Environment

    Eighteen offshore wind companies, transmission system operators and environmental NGOs have launched a new coalition dedicated to ensuring that Europe delivers its planned expansion of offshore wind energy while preserving nature and marine ecosystems. The aim of the Offshore Energy and Nature Coalition is to help the EU and national governments reach their climate goals […]