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Flex2Future advances floating wave, wind and solar platform toward pre-2030 demo
Flex2Future, a Norwegian technology company developing floating offshore energy systems that combine wind, wave and solar power on a single platform, has wrapped up an extensive model testing campaign in Norway, putting its floating wave, wind and solar energy platform concept through simulated offs
Orient Cable installs ‘China’s first’ 66 kV dynamic line for floating wind
Orient Cable (NBO) has installed the subsea cable for China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation’s 16 MW floating wind demonstration platform, said to be the world’s largest single-unit floating wind turbine. NBO says this is the first 66 kV dynamic cable for floating wind installed in China. The company’
Føn Energy Services mobilizes for subsea, above-water inspections in ‘busiest season to date’
Føn Energy Services has launched what it says will be its busiest offshore wind season to date, with inspection and repair campaigns underway across 14 offshore wind farms in the Netherlands, Scotland, Germany and Poland. The company has mobilized technicians, vessels, diving teams, remotely operate
Dutch NDT firm expands with subsea ROV and flying drone inspections
Dutch non-destructive testing specialist Ned Marine Services has expanded its inspection capabilities with the launch of subsea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and flying drone inspection services for non-destructive testing (NDT). The new service is aimed at Dutch and wider European customers and i
Readers’ choice: Offshore Energy’s most-read news in 2025
As the offshore energy sector continued to navigate the energy transition and technological development, but also uncertainty, 2025 saw continued shifts in policy, investment, and project development across the global energy landscape. To mark the year’s end, the Offshore Energy editorial team looks
Jan De Nul orders rock installation vessel for protection of subsea infrastructure
Jan De Nul has ordered a new subsea rock installation vessel (SRIV) in response to the growing global demand for the protection of underwater infrastructure. The vessel will primarily focus on projects in the energy sector, with the North Sea and Southeast Asia regions being the core of its operatio
Is combo with floating wind and hydrogen road to commercial-scale wave energy in Wales?
A new project has been launched in Wales to explore combining floating wind turbines, equipped with electrolyzers that produce green hydrogen, and wave energy devices to drive wave energy deployment off the coast of Pembrokeshire and lower its cost by sharing infrastructure. The Milford Haven: Hydro
EnBW launches tender for subsea inspection services at Baltic and North Sea wind farms
EnBW has issued a tender inviting bids for periodic subsea inspection services at its offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea and North Sea. The maximum value of the framework agreement is €6 million. The contracts are expected to run from April 1, 2026, to March 31, 2031, with the option of up to thr
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Offshore cabling work kicks off at EnBW’s He Dreiht wind farm in Germany
EnBW is laying the first submarine cable of the internal wind farm cabling that connects all 64 Vestas V236-15.0 MW turbines of the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm. Seaway7 has been commissioned with the task. In 2022, EnBW awarded the company an engineering, procurement, installation, and commi
Offshore Energy Amsterdam 2025 exhibition floor 70% booked
This is an article by Navingo, owner of the Offshore-Energy.biz media brand and the organiser of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference in Amsterdam. The year has just started but the exhibition floor for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2025 in November is filling up quick
Belfast Harbour to invest around $387 million in port projects over next five years
Belfast Harbour, Northern Ireland’s principal maritime gateway and logistics hub, has unveiled a new strategy setting out a program to invest £313 million (approximately $387 million) in capital projects across the port and Harbour Estate over the next five years.
Vestas, TKF secure contracts for 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm
Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between Red Rock Power Limited and ESB, has awarded TKF with a turnkey contract to supply and install inter-array cables at the Inch Cape offshore wind farm. Additionally, Vestas has secured a firm order to deliver its V236-15.0 MW wind turbines to the 1.1
DNV and Seatrium ally on marine and offshore innovation and sustainability
Norway-based classification society DNV has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Seatrium, a Singaporean engineering solutions provider to the offshore and marine industries, to cooperate on strategic activities and projects in the areas of engineering, technology and new product design.