The partially outfitted hull of a new cable-laying vessel (CLV) being built for Nexans has started its journey from Poland to Norway, where it will be finalized. Based on an ST-297 CLV design by Skipsteknisk, Nexans Electra, ordered as the second vessel by Nexans at Norway’s Ulstein Verft, is an upd
Jan De Nul has pulled two export cables for the 1,080 MW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction in Denmark. The export cables will transport clean, renewable electricity from the offshore site 22 kilometers out in the North Sea to the Danish mainland. In 2023, Jan De Nul, together wit
What is described as the “world’s first” offshore solar farm integrated within a wind farm has completed assembly at the Port of Amsterdam and is ready for deployment at the Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Dutch company Oceans of Energy assembled the floating solar fa
Dutch Fugro has been awarded contracts to conduct geophysical and geotechnical site investigations for the development of TotalEnergies and RWE’s two large-scale offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. Windbostel Ost and Windbostel West, being developed by a joint venture between RWE and TotalE
Van Oord christened the latest addition to its fleet, Boreas, on June 18 in Rotterdam. The company says its new jack-up, set to soon debut on the German Nordseecluster project, is the largest and most sustainable offshore wind installation vessel in the world. The Dutch marine contractor ordered the
The BeWild project, led by the Dutch geo-data specialist company Fugro, has completed what they claim to be the world’s first fully remote ecology survey at CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Nord offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Together, the BeWild partners integrated computer vision and environment
Geotechnical surveys have commenced for the 240 MW Jammerland Bugt offshore wind farm in Denmark to support the final project design in preparation for construction work. After several months of geophysical surveys, scanning the seabed using 3D measurements, the next step in the development of the J
Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) and LS Marine Solution have signed a preferred supplier agreement (PSA) for the 1 GW Haesong offshore wind farm in South Korea, which COP is developing on behalf of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). Under the agreement, LS Marine Solution is the preferred s
UK consultancy Carbon Trust has commissioned green hydrogen company H2SEA to conduct the Offshore Hydrogen Production Platform Design (H2PD) project under its Integrator Programme, a joint industry initiative which aims to maximize the contribution of offshore wind to a low-cost, flexible, predictab
A newly launched project in China is set to build what the project partners say will be the world’s first commercial underwater data center powered by offshore wind. The project will be developed in two phases, with the first phase being a demonstration facility and the second phase scaling up the c
Offshore green hydrogen production in the German Bight may affect the North Sea’s marine environment, according to a new study by German research institute Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon that highlights how waste heat from electrolysis could alter local water temperatures and sea stratification.
Petrobras, a Brazilian state-owned oil and gas company, has issued tenders for geophysical and geotechnical studies to explore the feasibility of an offshore wind pilot project off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The first tender covers the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of geophysical dat
TGS is conducting a geophysical survey at the site of the Green Volt floating offshore wind project in Scotland, one of the Scottish INTOG round winners and projects planned to provide electricity to oil and gas platforms. The seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard has mobilized from Aberdeen and is schedu
NKT, using its vessel NKT Victoria, is scheduled to start installing the export cable for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK this month. The vessel is expected to mobilize from the port of Karlskrona in Sweden on June 14 and work on the East Anglia Three site 24/7, conducting
