Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have entered into a joint venture to develop offshore wind projects in Hokkaido, Japan. The joint venture is jointly owned by MHI (50%) and CIP (50%), and a team with experts from both owners will be established, the comp
A joint venture of Mammoet and Giant Heavy Machinery Services has started working with Sing Da Marine Structure Corporation (SDMS) on the locally-produced jacket foundations for the Greater Changhua offshore wind project in Taiwan. The joint venture will be performing the assembly, transportation an
Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa posted € 466 million net loss in the third quarter of FY 2020, attributed largely to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and challenges in the onshore segment. Between April and June, Siemens Gamesa recorded revenues of € 2.411 billion, an eight percent decl
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy has selected the CrossWind consortium between Shell and Eneco to develop and operate the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind project without government subsidies. The Hollandse Kust (noord) zone consists of two sites located 18.5 kilometres
PSG Marine & Logistics has secured a staging contract by Boskalis Subsea for the Kincardine floating offshore wind project in Scotland. Work began at Port of Cromarty Firth, where PSG is undertaking the onshore handling, marshaling and loadout of mooring equipment destined for the project off the co
Fugro is set to deploy metocean equipment to support the planning of the export cable laying operations at the Sofia offshore wind project in August. Diving support vessel Curtis Marshall will be used for the work scheduled to begin on or around 3 August. The equipment will be deployed for a period
Vattenfall plans to start offshore construction on the largest, and also the first subsidy-free offshore wind farm in the world, in the spring of 2021. This is when the first foundations, produced by Sif Group, will be brought from the Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam and installed at the 1.5 GW
Enterprize Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a consortium between Vietnamese companies Vietsovpetro and PVC-MS for the 3.4 GW Thang Long offshore wind project. The consortium has been selected as an EPCI contractor in charge of the design, fabrication, transportation, and in
Boston Energy has secured a contract to support MHI Vestas during wind turbine pre-assembly operations on two offshore wind projects in the UK. Boston Energy will assist MHI Vestas on the 857 MW Triton Knoll and the 950 MW Moray East projects. These are due to commence later this year in Invergordon
Subsea 7 has booked a major loss in Q2 2020 on restructuring and impairment charges as well as activity drop in the SURF and Conventional business units. The engineering and construction specialist recognised quarterly net loss of $922 million, against profit of $24 million in Q2 2019. Diluted loss
The hull of Prysmian’s new cable laying vessel (CLV) Leonardo da Vinci is fully completed, including the entire superstructure and the launching ceremony, according to the company’s social media post on 28 July. Leonardo da Vinci, built in Vard’s shipyard in Tulcea in Romania, will now be towed to V
CTCI Machinery Corporation (CTCI MAC) has completed the first transition pieces ready to be loaded out for the Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan. The first batch of transition pieces will be loaded out on a barge by wpd in early August from CTCI MAC’s Ta-Lin Shop in Kaohsiung to the offshore si
Blue Offshore’s double basket carrousel barge, CC Atlantique, has arrived in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, carrying more than 8000 tonnes of high voltage cable for the connection of TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (zuid) Alpha Platform to the onshore grid. According to the company, this represents cable trans
Ørsted plans to officially commission the 752 MW Borssele 1 and 2 wind farm in the Dutch North Sea on 5 October, barring any negative effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. The wind farm comprises 94 Siemens Gamesa’s wind turbines, over two-thirds of which have now been installed at the site located 22
