Offshore Wind
Brave Tern Checks In at St Nazaire, Nacelle Load-Out About to Start
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern has arrived in St. Nazaire in western France, with the process of loading the GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade 150-6MW nacelles for the Block Island Wind Farm to begin shortly. “This is an exciting project to be working on and we look for
NORCOWE Mapping Offshore Winds at FINO1
NORCOWE has reported that it gathered an extensive data set of both point and remote measurements of the wind field in and around the Alpha Ventus wind farm as part of the Offshore Boundary-Layer Experiment (OBLEX-F1) at the German wind energy research platform FINO1, which is running since May 2015
Offshore Energy Ops Setting Stage for AHTS Vessels
The global anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels market to grow at a CAGR of 13.88% during the period 2016-2020. According to Technavio’s “Global Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessels Market 2016-2020” report, one trend that is boosting this market’s growth is the rise in operations of subsea vesse
Technavio: Offshore Wind Growth Driving Subsea Cable Market
Technavio has issued a report on the most important trends expected to impact the global submarine power cable market outlook from 2016-2020. According to Anju Ajaykumar, a lead analyst at Technavio for research on engineering tools: “The offshore wind power generation sector is the major end-user o
Technavio: Offshore Wind Growth Driving Subsea Cable Market
Technavio has issued a report on the most important trends expected to impact the global submarine power cable market outlook from 2016-2020. According to Anju Ajaykumar, a lead analyst at Technavio for research on engineering tools: “The offshore wind power generation sector is the major end-user o
Photo of the Day: Oleg Strashnov Carrying Dudgeon Foundations
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Seaway Heavy Lifting’s Oleg Strashnov carrying monopiles and transition pieces to the Dudgeon offshore wind site. The photo was taken by the Superintendent of the Oleg Strashnov, during works at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. The first foundations at the
Maersk Esbjerg First to Offer GWO Basic Maintenance Training
Following the release of the Basic Maintenance Training (BMT) Standard by the Global Wind Organisation (GWO) on 4 July 2016, DNV GL has approved Maersk Training in Esbjerg as the first organisation to conduct all three modules in the new standard. The Basic Maintenance Training standard contains thr
AIS, RectrixAS Join for Drone Ops in Offshore Energy Sector
Advanced Industrial Solutions (AIS) has formed a strategic partnership with a drone provider, RectrixAS, to bring a range of services to the oil and gas, wind and construction industries. The companies will jointly offer specialist services including visual surveys, thermal inspections and risk asse
GE Preparing BIWF Nacelles for Shipping
GE reported today that the manufacturing of the first commercial series of Haliade™ nacelles is soon to be completed at its offshore wind turbine plant in Saint-Nazaire, France, with the nacelles scheduled to begin their voyage to the U.S. in mid-July. The five 370-tonne nacelles will equip the Bloc
GE Preparing BIWF Nacelles for Shipping
GE reported today that the manufacturing of the first commercial series of Haliade™ nacelles is soon to be completed at its offshore wind turbine plant in Saint-Nazaire, France, with the nacelles scheduled to begin their voyage to the U.S. in mid-July. The five 370-tonne nacelles will equip the Bloc
Global Maritime Bags Block Island OWF Contract
Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering has signed a contract with Deepwater Wind to provide marine warranty services for the Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm. Services that will be provided include a technical review of all installation procedures and calculations, the s
North America: Steel in the water
Last September in Baltimore at the AWEA Offshore WINDPOWER conference the buzz words heard over and over again were “we have steel in the water.” This is, of course, a reference to the jacket foundations for the five French built GE Haliade 6MW wind turbines which will be installed on the first Nort
Offshore Wind Giants to Invest EUR 7.5 Million in OWA’s Cost-Cutting R&D
DONG Energy, RWE, E.ON, Iberdrola, Vattenfall, Statoil, SSE, EnBW and Statkraft have joined Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme, bringing in GBP 6.4 million (approx. EUR 7.5 million) to help reduce the cost of offshore wind power below GBP 100/MWh by 2020. The fund of EUR 7.5 mi
Boskalis to Reduce Fleet by 24, Workforce by 650
Royal Boskalis Westminster has decided to take 24 vessels out of service in the coming two years, which will result in the loss of approximately 650 jobs worldwide during this period. The company based the decision on the results of its fleet rationalization study that was initiated in light of dete