Subsea 7 has signed a contract with Vattenfall for the developer’s four offshore wind farms at the Hollandse Kust Zuid zone in the Netherlands. Subsea 7’s will transport and install approximately 140 monopile foundations and 315 kilometres of 66 kV inner-array cables. Offshore installation is schedu
TenneT TSO has issued a tender seeking Construction All Risk (CAR) insurance for the Hollandse Kust Noord and West Alpha offshore wind farms. The tender is divided into two lots, for a leading insurer and next insurer. The duration of the contract is four years. The deadline for submitting applicati
Three persons were injured, one seriously, after a crew transfer vessel (CTV) allided with a wind turbine at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The 26-metre CTV Njord Forseti reported the incident at 6:25 pm local time, Thursday, 23 April, German Maritime Search and R
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s centre in Blyth has resumed testing and validation activity after a pause of some ten days. ORE Catapult had suspended access to the Blyth site for approximately 10 days to implement COVID-19-related protocols and measures. During that time, engineering
Lamprell and ScottishPower Renewables have reached a final settlement with regards to the close-out of the East Anglia One project. The final settlement will result in a cash payment to Lamprell of USD 18.9 million in May 2020, the UAE-based offshore engineering and fabrication company said. In addi
France will put up to 8.75 GW of offshore wind capacity out to tender from 2020 to 2028, the Multiannual Energy Programme (Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie (PPE)) shows. The new PPE has entered into force on Thursday, 23 April. As proposed earlier, the PPE also increases the intended operati
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has awarded VBW Weigt with a contract for hydrographic investigation in the N-6 offshore wind area in the North Sea. The seafloor investigation is part of the geological preliminary investigation in the area and includes data acquisition, data
In this Guest Column, Stephen Bolton, Managing Director of Bibby Marine Services, shares his views with our readers. As an industry driving improved efficiency and effectiveness, it is my firm belief that we as service providers have a responsibility to provide information not only on what the equip
Van Oord has installed the final of the 77 monopile foundations on the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Van Oord’s installation vessel Aeolus transported the monopile foundations from Sif’s terminal at Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam. The vessel then installed the
Nauti-Craft and OFFCON have entered into a development and license agreement to introduce a new range of multi-purpose daughter craft for the offshore wind industry. OFFCON has established a company to build the new range of vessels, called Wallaby Boats GmbH. The German company secured exclusive ri
Innogy has sold and handed over its offshore installation vessel Seabreeze II and related equipment to SPIC Ronghe International Financial Leasing Co. Ltd. A corresponding agreement between innogy and the Hong Kong-based leasing company had previously been signed in February, the German energy compa
CWind and Dalby Offshore have signed a long-term agreement, under which CWind will add four new vessels to its fleet with immediate effect. The companies also agreed on an option for two additional vessels later in the year. CWind said it had already chartered some of the new vessels following a qui
Dutch offshore wind services provider Gould has secured contracts for work on the wind farms in the Borssele zone. Van Oord has selected Gould to act as their key logistic hub for the Borssele Ill and IV offshore wind farm. For this, Van Oord will make use of Gould’s offshore service base in Vlissin
Vestas will lay off around 400 employees on functions that do not directly support the wind turbine supplier’s 2020 deliveries.
