UXOcontrol and its consortium partner Louis Dreyfus TravOcean have secured a contract to carry out the UXO identification and debris removal campaign at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France. The campaign mobilized in July with Louis Dreyfus Armateur’s UXO survey and identification vessel
Codling Wind Park Ltd has issued a contract notice for an offshore geotechnical survey across the Codling wind farm and the export cable route off the east coast of Ireland. The survey will include geotechnical boreholes with samplings and in-situ testings, seabed CPTs, seismic seabed CPTs, grab sam
Ørsted has appointed Jun Kasamatsu as its new Country Manager for Japan, effective from 24 August. According to the Danish company, Kasamatsu is an experienced leader with over 20 years of professional experience in renewable energy, structured finance, and investment banking. “As Country Manager f
Wilhelmsen has entered into an agreement with Østensjø Group to acquire 25% of its offshore wind business unit Edda Wind. As part of the agreement, Wilhelmsen also secured an option to buy another 25% before June 2021. Edda Wind currently has two vessels in service and four service vessels on order
GE Renewable Energy has produced the first turbine nacelle for the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire – France’s first offshore wind farm. This nacelle, which contains the generator, is the first in a series of 80 Haliade 150-6 MW wind turbines produced for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm to be assembled by
Ingeteam has been selected as the electrical system integrator for Jan De Nul’s floating installation crane vessel Les Alizés. Ingeteam is in charge of the engineering, supply, commissioning and sea trials of the complete electrical power system, as well as the alarm monitoring and control system fo
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub is inviting applications for the Early Career Researcher (ECR) Research Fund. The fund is designed to be a flexible research fund for ECRs to support small activities that either supports and develops existing research activities, or develops skills further
Great Britain’s National Grid ESO has selected DNV GL as the lead partner in the Offshore Coordination Project, which will advise and shape the future national strategy for offshore grid development. The aim of the project is to review and recommend ways to improve how offshore wind farms are connec
Polish energy company PKN Orlen has selected the UK-based Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) to carry out preliminary technical and construction design of an offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. As part of the contract, ODE has agreed to work with Polish companies on the project. The project will in
Longitude, part of LOC Group, has completed a range of environmental engineering analyses for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project to support the planning for the export cable installation operations. Under the contract with Prysmian, the work included analysis of vessel grounding and mooring in
Avangrid Renewables, the developer of the Kitty Hawk offshore wind project, has opened a new Virginia field office to support project development and help ignite a new industry off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina. Kitty Hawk is a proposed offshore wind energy project to be built approximate
Lithuania’s state-controlled energy holding company Ignitis Group has selected Ocean Winds as a strategic partner for the development of offshore wind farm projects. Ocean Winds, an offshore wind joint venture between Engie and EDPR, and Ignitis Group aim to jointly participate in the first auction
Looking at current developments, Navingo has had to adapt to a changing reality and its customer wishes more and faster than ever before in order to realise a full-value Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) and an effective Navingo Career Event (NCE). Therefore, both events will continue o
The construction of the next-generation cable laying vessel, the Nexans Aurora, is well underway at Ulstein Verft. The Norwegian shipyard is carrying out several tasks at the same time. On 10 September 2020, Ulstein installed the cable capstan during a short break in the ongoing paint process. Durin
