MMT has commenced geophysical surveys of the seabed at the Revolution Wind and South Fork offshore wind project sites off the U.S. East Coast, using the MV Deep Helder vessel from SeaMar. The Sweden-based offshore survey company awarded a six-month contract to SeaMar for the offshore support vessel
Palfinger’s marine business secured an order for two jetty cranes, which have recently been installed in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, at the maintenance base for the Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farm. While the wind farm is still under construction, Ørsted’s 2,100 sqm maintenance base has already
The UK-based offshore container provider Cargostore has opened a container depot in the Port of Taichung to support the upcoming offshore wind projects in Taiwan. The company has expanded into Taiwan in partnership with Rhenus Offshore Logistics and Maxlines New Energy & Project Logistics. Cargostor
LOC Group has won a contract to provide marine warranty services (MWS) for the first phase of the Dong Hai 1 intertidal project in Vietnam. The scope of the services will be for the loadout, transportation and installation of 13 Vestas V150-4.0 turbines, the inter-turbine MV cables and link bridge s
DEME’s cable laying vessel Living Stone has completed the cable burial activities at the SeaMade offshore wind farm site in the Belgian sector of the North Sea. The vessel started the inter-array cable laying works in April and connected the first cables to one of the project’s offshore substations
Following the first load-out of the jacket foundations built by Samkang for the TPC Phase 1 wind farm in Taiwan, the South Korean manufacturer has now shared a video showing the process. Back in May, Jan De Nul completed the load-out of the first four of the 21 jacket foundations built for the 109.2
Dutch offshore access provider Ampelmann has secured five new contracts for offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Ampelmann secured the contracts with Norwegian companies BOA, Volstad, Olympic Shipping, Siem Offshore and DOF. The Dutch company will provide two A-type and three E1000 systems, which w
French offshore wind developer Ailes Marines has awarded Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) with a contract to provide vessel inspection services to support the construction of the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm. SMC will be providing up to three local Accredited Vessel Inspectors (AVIs) to the pr
Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has installed the second and final turbine at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project in the U.S. The two Siemens Gamesa SWT-6.0-154 units, which are the first wind turbines installed in U.S. federal waters, will now undergo acceptance testing
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) plans to issue a tender for the development of an integrated ground model for the 4 GW IJmuiden Ver wind farm zone in July. This integrated ground model should be of sufficient accuracy to allow (preliminary) foundation design, RVO said. The deliverables of th
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to hold three offshore wind auctions for a combined capacity of 5 GW by 2023. The ministry expects to hold what would be Taiwan’s third auction round in the second quarter of 2021, offering 1 GW capacity in the process. The country’s fourth and fifth aucti
A new study in Denmark, published on 26 June, says that every 1 GW of offshore wind set up in Denmark secures 14,600 full-time jobs. The study, released by Danish Shipping, Danish Energy and Wind Denmark, has investigated what investments in offshore wind can create in terms of employment throughout
Offshore wind in the UK produced 13.2 TWh of electricity in the first three months of 2020 – 53.1 per cent more than in the same period last year, according to the UK government’s energy statistics published on 25 June. The quarterly Energy Trends report from the Department for Business, Energy and
Fugro has commenced the final phase of the pre-construction site investigation at innogy’s Sofia offshore wind project in the UK. Jack-up vessel Haven Seariser 2 will work in the nearshore area between Redcar and Marske-by-the-Sea from this week to conclude the six-month offshore site investigation.
