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  • New North Sea assignments for DeepOcean with offshore wind and oil & gas players

    29 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    DeepOcean has been awarded substantial contracts by three oil majors – Equinor, ConocoPhillips and BP – for work in the North Sea.

  • Fugro plots first remotely operated autonomous offshore wind farm inspection

    20 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    Netherlands-headquartered Fugro has revealed plans to carry out a remotely operated autonomous offshore wind farm inspection, said to be an industry first. Fugro will use its Blue Essence uncrewed surface vessel (USV) equipped with the Blue Volta fully electric remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to conduct the inspection early this year. The plan is to control […]

  • SolarDuck to build 5MW floating solar demonstrator integrated with offshore wind farm

    11 November 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Dutch-Norwegian company SolarDuck has been awarded a contract for the world’s largest hybrid offshore floating solar power plant at the offshore wind park Hollandse Kust West VII in the Netherlands.

  • Ofgem OKs transmission investments needed for UK’s 2030 offshore wind target

    30 December 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Ofgem has approved the strategic electricity transmission reinforcements required to deliver the UK Government’s 50 GW offshore wind by 2030 target, set out as part of the regulator’s Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) framework. The decision confirms that all SSEN Transmission projects identified by the Electricity System Operator (ESO) as required to meet 2030 offshore […]

  • French telecom giant takes delivery of offshore wind cable laying vessel

    4 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    French telecommunications corporation Orange has taken delivery of its new cable laying and repair vessel (CLRV), said to be designed for the maintenance of cables for offshore wind projects. The vessel, named Sophie Germain after the pioneering French mathematician and philosopher, is currently on its way from Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard to France. The CLRV […]

  • Cable stabilisation work to start at two Ørsted offshore wind farms in UK

    3 April 2023
    Operations & Maintenance

    Rock placement operations are set to start this month at Walney 1 & 2 and West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farms in the UK to stabilise several sections of subsea cables at the wind farms, both owned by Ørsted. The work will be carried out by DEME’s DP2 fallpipe vessel Rollingstone. At West of Duddon […]

  • All inter-array cables in place at Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm

    17 August 2022
    Project & Tenders

    Louis Dreyfus TravOcean (LDTVO) has installed all 80 inter-array cables at the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire, France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm. A consortium of LDTVO and Prysmian officially secured a contract for the supply and installation of inter-array cables at the 80-turbine Saint-Nazaire in 2018. Prysmian was responsible for cable manufacturing, while LDTVO was in […]

  • Deutsche Windtechnik contracted for subsea inspections on seven more offshore wind farms

    11 August 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Deutsche Windtechnik has signed contracts for seven additional offshore wind farms on which the company will carry out underwater inspections, with more than 300 annual inspection reports to be generated in the next two years. The company will, among other things, conduct back-to-back inspections on Trianel Windpark Borkum I, Sandbank, DanTysk, and Butendiek wind farms […]

  • Hydrogen-producing offshore wind turbine project progressing towards permit application

    11 October 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    Vattenfall’s offshore wind-to-hydrogen pilot project in Scotland is moving towards filing consent applications, with a public consultation event set to be held next month and the developer appointing a UK-based consultancy for the metocean design criteria for the project. The Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1) project is said to bring the world its first hydrogen-producing offshore wind […]

  • Seaway 7 starts early works on Moray West offshore wind project

    8 August 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Seaway 7 has signed a Letter of Award with Moray Offshore Windfarm (West) Limited to start early works on the Engineering, Procurement, Installation and Commissioning (EPIC) of inter-array grid cables for the Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland.  Seaway 7’s scope is under final negotiation and may include the supply and installation of approximately […]

  • Abu Dhabi companies to explore offshore wind, green hydrogen development in UAE

    24 May 2022
    Business & Finance

    Abu Dhabi-based Masdar and National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) have entered into an agreement to collaborate on offshore wind and green hydrogen project development in the UAE. Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed this month, the two companies will initially focus on collaboration in offshore wind and will also extend their efforts to cover […]

  • Outer Dowsing offshore wind project set for export cable corridor survey

    22 March 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Green Investment Group (GIG), has scheduled an offshore geophysical survey for the proposed 1.5 GW offshore wind project.

  • Metocean surveys starting at Irish large scale offshore wind farm site

    8 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) surveys are set to start at a site off Ireland, where a large scale offshore wind farm is proposed to be built.

  • Subsea 7 and OHT combine to create pure play offshore wind company

    8 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Subsea 7 S.A. has agreed to combine its Renewables business unit with Norway’s OHT ASA. Subject to the customary approvals, conditions and relevant employee consultations, the combined company will be renamed Seaway 7 ASA and will initially retain OHT’s listing on Oslo’s Euronext Growth market, with a view to a future listing on Oslo Børs. […]

  • Fugro streamlines Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind project with Geo-data platform

    28 June 2021
    Technology

    Fugro has completed the first phase of a two-year contract with Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind to build and manage a centralised, cloud-hosted Geo-data repository for the company’s lease development off the coast of New Jersey in the US. The web-based engagement platform was recently delivered and utilises Fugro’s Gaia technology to provide Atlantic Shores and […]

  • Vard to build North Star SOVs for Dogger Bank offshore wind farm

    6 April 2021
    Vessels

    Vard and North Star Renewables have signed contracts for the design and construction of three service operation vessels (SOVs) which will operate on the Dogger Bank Wind Farm offshore the UK. The signing of the contracts follows the recent news on the Aberdeen-based North Star Renewables winning the tender for the delivery of three SOVs […]

  • Poland to invest billions of Euros in offshore wind, green hydrogen, port development

    19 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    The Polish government has allocated more than € 4 billion for offshore wind, port development, and hydrogen production and distribution in its National Reconstruction Plan (KPO). The KPO has been adopted by the Council of Ministers and submitted to the European Commission through which Poland will tap into the EU Reconstruction Fund. More than third […]

  • Rotech Subsea wraps up North Sea offshore wind cable scope

    4 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Rotech Subsea has completed cable de-burial and post-lay trenching works at an undisclosed offshore wind farm in the British part of the North Sea. Rotech carried out the work on multiple sections of the wind farm. The company did not reveal the name of the client but did state that it is an offshore energy […]

  • Shell, RWE & co move forward with German offshore wind-to-hydrogen project

    26 April 2021
    Technology

    Project partners Shell, RWE, GASCADE, and Gasunie have signed a declaration of intent to further intensify their collaboration on the AquaDuctus project. The AquaDuctus pipeline will transport green hydrogen from the German North Sea directly to the continent. It is part of the AquaVentus initiative, which plans to install 10 GW of electrolysis capacity for […]

  • Ørsted raises its own 2030 offshore wind bar to 30 GW

    2 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Ørsted has decided to accelerate its global build-out of renewable energy and has now set a goal to reach around 50 GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030, of which 30 GW will come from offshore wind. Reaching this target will see the company investing approx. DKK 350 billion (approx. € 47.07 billion) until […]

  • Ørsted and US labor union kick-start offshore wind workforce transition

    18 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

    Ørsted and North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop the next generation offshore wind workforce in the U.S. The partnership will create a national agreement designed to transition U.S. union construction workers into the offshore wind industry, in collaboration with the leadership of the 14 U.S. NABTU […]

  • Keel laid for first Jones Act compliant offshore wind installation vessel

    17 December 2020
    Vessels

    Dominion Energy has laid the keel for the first Jones Act compliant installation vessel for the U.S. offshore wind sector. The vessel, designed by GustoMSC, is being constructed by Keppel AmFELS at its Brownsville, Texas shipyard. It will base operations out of Hampton Roads in Virginia and is expected to be available to support turbine […]

  • US wants info on offshore wind transmission system integration research needs

    1 December 2020
    Authorities & Government

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a Request for Information (RFI) process regarding the research needs for integration of large-scale offshore wind energy generation into the transmission grid. The purpose of the RFI, issued by DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), is to solicit input from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and the […]

  • Rystad Energy: Global installed offshore wind capacity to grow by 37% in 2021

    4 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    The world’s installed offshore wind capacity rose by 15 per cent in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and this year will see a 37 per cent growth in global installed offshore wind capacity, according to Rystad Energy. Major contributor to both last year’s and this year’s growth is China. The country is expected to ramp […]

  • Finnish offshore wind developer probing up to 500 MW extension project

    21 May 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Finland’s Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy is exploring the possibilities of expanding the 44.3 MW Tahkoluoto wind farm offshore Pori. The extension project is in a preliminary study phase, with the environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure and the zoning about to begin, the developer said. The proposed extension project would have a capacity of between 300 MW […]