An EOLOS floating LiDAR has been deployed off the South Korean coast, as part of a measurement campaign for an offshore wind project being developed by Shell and CoensHexicon. The FLS200 floating LiDAR buoy has been deployed some 60 kilometres off the coast of Ulsan in South Korea, following EOLOS b
EDS HV Group has won a five-year framework contract with RWE Renewables to provide cable fault response and repair services across the energy company’s wind farms offshore the UK. Under the framework agreement, EDS will manage all aspects of cable fault response by mobilising engineers to test and i
EDF Renewables and Fred. Olsen Renewables have appointed Arno Verbeek as the Project Director for the Codling offshore wind project in Ireland. Verbeek will lead the development, construction and operational phases of the Codling Wind Park (CWP). According to the project developers, Verbeek has exte
Danish Energy Agency (Energistyrelsen) has invited offshore wind developers to pre-qualify for the tender to build and operate the Thor offshore wind farm. The pre-qualification period is open until noon on 1 December, with the invitation to selected candidates to bid at the tender expected to be is
Spain’s Greenalia has submitted the project and environmental planning applications to develop four new floating offshore wind farms in Gran Canaria. Dunas, Mojo, Cardon and Guanche are independent projects, each expected to have 50 MW of capacity, located offshore the Gran Canarian South-East coast
The joint venture between ENGIE Solutions and Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders, has cut the first steel for the topside of the offshore transformer station for the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm zone in the Netherlands. The joint venture partners, together with TenneT representatives, officially ma
Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development Public Company Limited has officially taken over the 50 per cent stake in the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm from Global Infrastructure Partners. In July, Gulf acquired 50 per cent shares of Borkum Riffgrund 2 Investor Holding (BKR2) through its subsidiary G
DHSS has opened a new support base in the Port of IJmuiden, the Netherlands. Bold Tern visited DHSS’ new base at Volendamkadea, marking the start of the terminal’s first offshore wind project. The installation vessel is preparing for a maintenance campaign at a closeby offshore wind farm. Additional
Seajacks Scylla installed the 33rd jacket foundation at the Moray East offshore wind farm site on 20 September, according to the project’s Notice of Operations from 21 September. The jack-up vessel is transporting the jacket foundations to the project site from Global Energy Group’s site in Nigg. Th
Denmark-headquartered offshore wind developer Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) has installed a floating LiDAR off South Korea. According to the company’s post on social media, the LiDAR was “finally” deployed on 18 September following a series of typhoons in Korea. The floating LiDAR will carry ou
Seacontractors’ multi-purpose vessels Sea Charlie and Sea Buffalo, chartered by Jan de Nul, have completed their first job in Taiwan at Taiwan Power Company’s Changhua Phase 1 offshore wind farm. The vessels were assisting Jan De Nul, which is responsible for the design, fabrication and installation
Siemens Energy has commissioned a power transmission system for the 8 MW offshore wind turbine installed at the Shantou Haojiang onshore industrial park as part a demo project by Shanghai Electric in China. The system consists of a SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride)-free gas-insulated high-voltage switchgear
The Haven Seariser 2 jack-up vessel has been deployed off the Norfolk coast in the UK to collect seabed data for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas offshore wind projects. The work, along with other surveys currently being carried out, will shape the design of what will become one of t
Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock has signed a contract with Aibel for the supply of a cylinder-luffing crane for TenneT’s DolWin Epsilon offshore transformer platform, part of the DolWin5 offshore grid in Germany. The Liebherr crane will be used for supply and maintenance tasks on the 900 MW offshore grid co
