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  • Westwood: US Offshore Wind Gaining Momentum Despite Trump’s Pro-Oil & Gas Stance

    17 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Despite President Donald Trump’s pro-oil and gas stance and his decision to leave the Paris Climate Accord, there are some positive signs that US offshore wind is gaining momentum, Westwood Global Energy Group writes.

  • Jumbo Offshore completes installation of 131 Transition Pieces for Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm

    10 September 2010

    Jumbo Offshore has successfully completed its TP-installation project for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm (GGOWF), off the UK’s south-east coast. For client Fluor, Jumbo’s DP2 Heavy Lift Vessel Jumbo Javelin installed 131 TP’s (out of 140 in the field) with a record-breaking installation speed of more than 1 TP per day. The job included […]

  • BOEMRE Director Discusses Future of Offshore Renewable Energy at Offshore Wind Power Conference (USA)

    2 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    Today, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement Director Michael R. Bromwich delivered remarks at the Second Annual Offshore Wind Power North America Conference in Boston, Mass. Director Bromwich discussed the current status of offshore renewable energy projects, how the reorganization of the former Minerals Management Service will affect future offshore renewable energy projects […]

  • Draka Offshore to Provide Subsea Cable for Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    10 January 2011

    Draka Offshore will provide subsea array cabling for the 576 MW Welsh Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm under a €25 million inter-array cabling… (renewableenergyfocus) [mappress] Source: renewableenergyfocus, January 10, 2011

  • PaxOcean clinches deal for new cable laying vessel to bolster Japan’s offshore wind

    8 January 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology

    Singapore-based shipbuilding player PaxOcean has landed a contract with Japan’s Penta-Ocean Construction to construct a 14,000 deadweight tonnage DWT cable laying vessel (CLV), seen as a “key project” in Japan’s offshore wind industry. According to PaxOcean, the vessel is expected to be delivered in February 2028. The deal was formalized on December 3, 2024, with […]

  • DEME to perform CPS stabilization work on Vattenfall’s two German offshore wind farms

    5 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Vattenfall has contracted DEME Offshore for cable protection system (CPS) stabilization work on the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. The offshore wind farm owner/operator opened the tender for CPS stabilization work in June last year. According to a contract award notice published on a European tender website on 27 February, the value […]

  • ETI project identifies potential for floating offshore wind turbines in deeper water (UK)

    12 October 2010
    Research & Development

    Offshore wind turbines could be sited in deeper water, closer to the shore off the UK coast to take advantage of stronger, more consistent wind speeds, according to the Energy Technologies Institute. Project Deepwater, a consortium led by Blue H with BAE Systems, the Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture (CEFAS), EDF, Romax Technology […]

  • RWE gets go-ahead for 100 MW electrolyzer for offshore wind-to-hydrogen project

    31 October 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Technology

    German energy company RWE has secured construction and environmental permits to build a 100 MW electrolyzer in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. The electrolyzer is part of system integration solutions associated with OranjeWind, an offshore wind project RWE is jointly developing with TotalEnergies in the Dutch North Sea. RWE described the permits as an important step in […]

  • Platform supply vessel getting refurbished into geotechnical drilling ship for offshore wind ops

    30 August 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    U.S.-based Woocheen’s Seas Geosciences has signed a multi-year agreement with Britoil Offshore Services to charter and convert a platform supply vessel (PSV) into a geotechnical drilling vessel, which is expected to be available for work in the offshore wind market from January 2025. The 2015-built PSV BOS Princess, with an 80-meter length, a nearly 19-meter […]

  • Van Oord to install Windanker offshore wind turbine foundations, inter-array cables

    22 May 2024
    Vessels

    Iberdrola has contracted Van Oord for the installation of wind turbine foundations and the supply and installation of inter-array cables for the Windanker offshore wind farm that the Spanish renewable energy company is building in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. Under the contract, the Dutch offshore construction specialist will transport and install 21 […]

  • RWE, Masdar award geophysical surveys contract for DBS West offshore wind farm

    17 May 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    RWE and Masdar have signed a contract with marine technology and data acquisition company, Ocean Infinity, for 3D ultra high-resolution seismic (UHRS) geophysical surveys at the Dogger Bank South (DBS) West offshore wind farm in the UK. Located over 100 kilometers off the northeastern coast of England, DBS will be split across two sites, DBS East […]

  • Energinet awards €19.8 million in contracts for studies of Denmark’s new offshore wind areas

    12 July 2023
    Project & Tenders

    Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has awarded several contracts for surveys and studies for Denmark’s new offshore wind areas. Valued at a total of €19.8 million, the contracts secured by GEO.xyz, WSP Danmark, DNV, and LiveLink Aerospace include cable route surveys, consultancy services for a number of marine environmental studies, and radar analysis. GEO.xyz […]

  • Cabling works at full steam on first large-scale US offshore wind farm

    15 June 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Two 220 kV high-voltage alternate current (HVAC) three-pole submarine cables have been installed for Vineyard Wind 1, America’s first large-scale offshore wind project. Prysmian Group, the supplier of the submarine cables, said that the operations proceed on time with the schedule and that their cable-laying vessel Ulisse is ready to perform submarine cable joints. Prysmian’s […]

  • LS Cable & System preferred supplier for 400 MW Korean offshore wind project

    7 June 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    South Korean subsea cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has been selected as the preferred bidder for the supply of subsea cables for the country’s 400 MW Shinanwui offshore wind project, being developed by Hanwha Engineering & Construction. The Shinanwui (Sinan Ui) offshore wind farm will be built in the southeastern sea area of ​​the Ui-Do island, in Sinan […]

  • Ocean Sun starts streamlining floating solar designs for offshore wind-linked project

    17 May 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    Norwegian company Ocean Sun has started making design improvements to its floating solar units, based on the insights gained through real sea demonstration of the technology linked with offshore wind turbines in China.

  • Three players pursuing floating offshore wind opportunities at Barents Sea oil field

    26 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Vår Energi has entered into a collaboration with Odfjell Oceanwind and Source Galileo to explore floating offshore wind in the Barents Sea. 

  • Black Sea subsea link to connect Azerbaijan’s offshore wind farms with Romania, Hungary

    19 December 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure

    On 17 December, the governments of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, and Hungary entered into an agreement under which the four countries committed to bringing forward a subsea link in the Black Sea that will, among other things, transfer electricity from future offshore wind farms in Azerbaijan’s part of the Caspian Sea. The Agreement on a strategic […]

  • Chinese city plans 43.3 GW offshore wind development, green hydrogen production

    24 October 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Transition

    The municipal government of China’s city of Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, has issued a new five-year plan for energy development which, among other things, kick-starts preliminary work on the potential development of two offshore wind projects with a total capacity of 43.3 GW. Green hydrogen production and an energy island part of a broader ambition Plan […]

  • Vattenfall issues inter-array cable contract notice for German offshore wind farms

    12 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Vattenfall Atlantis 1 and Global Tech II Offshore Wind GmbH have issued a contract notice seeking contractors to install inter-array cables for two wind farm projects offshore Germany. The two projects, Vattenfall Atlantis 1 and Global Tech II, are located in the German North Sea, in the N-7.2 and N-6.6 zones. The contract is expected […]

  • SSE, Equinor plan 1.3 GW Dogger Bank D offshore wind project

    7 October 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    SSE Renewables and Equinor are looking into building what would be the fourth part of Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, whose three phases (A, B and C) are currently under construction. Surveys are now underway at an offshore site where the partners want to develop Dogger Bank D, which would […]

  • Norwegian player giving new life to oil & gas vessel with conversion for offshore wind

    19 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    Norside bought a platform supply vessel used in the oil and gas industry for the purpose of converting it for offshore wind ops.

  • Fred. Olsen 1848 emerges, sets sights on floating offshore wind and floating solar

    23 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Research & Development, Technology, Vessels

    Norway’s Bounheur ASA has established a new company, Fred. Olsen 1848, dedicated to developing and commercialising new technologies related to renewable energy such as floating offshore wind and floating solar. Fred. Olsen 1848 will focus on the development and commercialization of existing, but also new ideas and innovations from in-house engineers and technicians, Bounheur said. […]

  • Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm gets DNV GL project certificate

    10 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Certification & Classification

    DNV GL has officially issued the project certificate to Vattenfall for its Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in Denmark. The certification covered the turbines including their support structure plus all the cabling connecting them to the offshore substation. Inspections were carried out over a three-year period and included surveillance of manufacturing, transportation and installation […]

  • Offshore wind part of EU’s two newly adopted strategies as green hydrogen prioritised

    9 July 2020
    Authorities & Government

    The European Commission adopted two energy strategies on an EU-level on 8 July, which prioritise hydrogen production powered by offshore wind and other renewable energy sources, and set the stage for linking different energy carriers, infrastructures, and consumption sectors. “The priority for the EU is to develop renewable hydrogen, produced using mainly wind and solar […]

  • Kitty Hawk offshore wind farm’s O&M to create almost 1,000 jobs

    30 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    The Kitty Hawk offshore wind farm can be expected to deliver substantial economic growth and employment to Virginia and North Carolina, according to the project’s economic impact study (EIS), with nearly 1,000 jobs to be created once the wind farm is operational. Along with the USD 2 billion in economic impact between 2021 and 2030, […]