RWE Renewables has emerged as a developer behind another wind project planned offshore Japan. The German company which, after its entry into the Japanese offshore wind market, first focused on feasibility studies and project development in the area of the Kyushu island and off Akita and Niigata pref
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) plans to issue a tender covering expert support on soil investigations and expert support on wind and water investigations at the new offshore wind zones in the Dutch North Sea. RVO plans to start site characterization within designated new areas for the prepa
The direction of the global transition to clean energy is getting more refined each week, as more of the world’s energy majors start investing in innovation and collaboration to shift energy production away from GHG-heavy sources.
CNOOC Petroleum and Flotation Energy are working on a project, which would see one of the UK’s largest oil and gas assets electrified with power from a floating offshore wind farm.
ESB Wind Development Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Irish utility company ESB, has applied for a licence to carry out site investigations for its Sea Stacks Offshore Wind project, one of the projects on which the company was joined by Equinor, before the Norwegian developer decided to withdra
Vattenfall, through the project company DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH & Co. KG, has opened a tender for construction works on the Cable Protection System (CPS) stabilisation at the Sandbank offshore wind farm in Germany. The company is looking for a contractor to install a loose rock berm cove
The Irish government has granted Statkraft a foreshore licence for site investigation in waters off Ireland where the company plans to build a 530 MW offshore wind farm. The developer submitted an application for the licence in December 2019, requesting approval to undertake site investigations at t
A team of Expleo engineers has completed an onboard survey of the service operations vessel (SOV) Bibby WaveMaster1 as part of a government-funded feasibility study to find green marine retrofit solutions.
Renewable energy arm of a major Chinese project developer has revealed its decision to invest more than €5.7 billion in new offshore wind farms on which construction will start as soon as this month. The projects will bring a total of 3 GW of new offshore wind capacity to the country that is leaping
GMS has won two new contracts for two of its large-size class vessels and expressed hopes for higher rates and improved fleet utilisation.
The Oil and Gas Authority is supporting the launch of a new climate compatibility checkpoint for the oil and gas industry.
Taiwan’s Dong Fang Offshore will convert the Construction and Flex Lay vessel, Polar Onyx, purchased from GC Rieber Shipping, into a cable laying vessel. Polar Onyx is the first flexible lay vessel owned by a Taiwanese owner, and will be the first vessel of its kind to fly the Taiwanese flag once re
Nexans has won a turnkey contract with Ocean Winds to design, manufacture, install and protect the 220kV subsea and onshore export cable system for the Moray West offshore wind farm. The Moray West project is an 860 MW offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, located off the northeast coast of S
Norwegian shipowner GC Rieber Shipping has entered into an agreement with the Taiwanese offshore wind company Dong Fang Offshore for the sale of its SURF, construction vessel Polar Onyx. The delivery of the 130-meter long vessel, built at Ulstein Verft in 2014, is expected to take place in the first
