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
Neptune Energy has drilled a dry well near the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea.
Sonardyne and XOCEAN have completed a live seabed-to-shore data harvesting mission for Norske Shell using an unmanned surface vessel (USV). The survey is part of a seabed monitoring campaign at the Ormen Lange field offshore Norway. The teams completed the project without a single person having to t
Siemens Gamesa has inaugurated the world’s first service accommodation transfer vessel (SATV) in Taiwan. The 35-metre Ventus Formosa will operate from Taichung. The vessel will support Siemens Gamesa’s full service agreement for the Formosa 1 offshore wind project. Penguin International built the SA
The 288 MW EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea will be serviced from the Danish port of Klintholm on the island of Møn from August 2020, EnBW said. Until now, the company’s service team of up to 25 has travelled from Rostock to a hotel vessel close to the wind […]
Heli Service International will provide a 12-passenger helicopter for isolation procedures at EWE’s offshore wind farms is Germany. EWE Offshore Service & Solutions (OSS) selected Heli Service on 16 April. The negotiations were held under an emergency procurement process and in addition to the tende
TGS has completed the reprocessing of a 21,631 square kilometres 2D seismic survey offshore Sakhalin Island, in the Russian Sea of Okhotsk. The reprocessing has been undertaken with the support of TGS’ Russian partner, DMNG. Following completion of the project, first data has been sent out to pre-fu
Cemre Shipyard has launched the first of the three service operation vessels (SOVs) currently under construction for MHI Vestas and Esvagt at its yard in Turkey. The vessels are of the Havyard 831 L SOV design and will service the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, the Triton
German shipbuilder MV Werften, part of Genting Hong Kong, has decided to prolong the production halt for two more weeks amid the coronavirus crisis.
Scottish energy company SSE has engaged practiced emergency responses and has adapted working arrangements to ensure the safety of the staff working on the Beatrice offshore wind farm during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 584 MW Beatrice comprises 84 Siemens Gamesa 7 MW wind turbines which have been in
The Port of Amsterdam will turn a dredging depot at the former Averijhaven into an energy port to serve as a base for the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The port is carrying out the Energiehaven project in collaboration with the province of North Holland, the municipality of Ve
The offshore wind industry will need 77,000 GWO-trained on-site workers to deliver forecast installations in six key emerging markets for offshore wind between 2020-2024, a new report has found. Published by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Global Wind Organisation (GWO), Powering the Futur
Ventus Marine’s service accommodation transfer vessel (SATV) Ventus Formosa has begun its charter on the Formosa 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan. The joint venture of PSA Marine and its Taiwanese partner Ta Tong Marine Group took delivery of the 36-meter purpose-built SATV earlier this year. Ventu
Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center’s (MARMC) Dive Team has completed an underwater hub replacement on USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) at Naval Station Norfolk. The repair was completed two weeks faster than ever previously performed. Hub replacements are depot-level repairs typically conduct
