MPI Offshore and Vroon Offshore Services spent two days last week at the RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind exhibition, which took place in Glasgow. The well-attended show saw MPI’s stand attract plenty of attention. The MPI stand, covering almost 100 square metres, captures the company’s ‘Doing’ mess
Connector specialist First Subsea will introduce a revolutionary cable connector for offshore wind turbines at Windforce 2014 in Bremen (17-19 June). The Hang Off Connector reduces the time, cost and risk associated with offshore cable installation. Unlike traditional hang off devices, the First Sub
Palfinger Boats is the manufacturer of (fast) rescue boats, work boats, daughter crafts and life boats. This product range is complementary to the Palfinger Marine deck equipment such as offshore cranes, marine cranes and launch & recovery systems. The innovative, high quality and safe (fast) rescue
A new vessel has been deployed at the Meerwind Süd/Ost offshore wind farm site. Namely, Seewind 1 is carrying out crew transfers from and to the offshore wind farm’s substation near Helgoland, North Sea, Germany. WindMW, a joint-venture between Blackstone Energy Partners and Windland Energieerzeugun
The engineering and services group Bilfinger will test steel foundations for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project in the Baltic Sea on behalf of Spanish energy supplier Iberdrola. Beginning in 2016, a total of 70 wind turbines are planned to be installed in water depths of up to 42 meters North E
Long Island native Matthew Kearns took off from Montauk to run over 100 miles to the Long Beach Boardwalk on June 13. He arrived in Long Beach that night greeted by a cheering crowd of over 1,000 people at the Sierra Club’s Wind 100 rally and concert. The historic, 112-mile run is drawing attention
HVDC topside of Siemens’ HelWin beta converter platform left Heerema Fabrication Group’s (HFG) yard in Zwijndrecht on Saturday, June 14. The topside was transported to Schiedam for the last fabrication activities. Last week, the HelWin beta topside was loaded onto the H-542 barge, operated by Heerem
Reederei-NSB (NSB) and the offshore consultancy OFFCON GmbH (OFFCON) introduced a new design for the MPOV-wind family. It is a tailor made, extremely flexible and cost efficient, modular vessel family designed for the special requirements of the offshore wind industry. The MPOV-Wind family is the pr
The leaders of energy and shipbuilding sectors from Basque presented at Global Offshore Wind 2014 under the name “Offshore Wind Energy – Basque Country”. Large players in above mentioned sectors from Basque are presenting their offer and services to companies, investors and media in a number of inte
Another Japanese engineering company, Hitachi, has expressed its interest in joining Siemens in a bid for the French company Alstom. Earlier this week Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced that it had joined Siemens in evaluating a potential proposal for certain assets of the French multinational co
DNV GL, the world’s leading ship classification society and one of the world’s leading risk and sustainability service providers, is celebrating a double milestone: The Foundation DNV’s 150th anniversary and DNV GL’s first year as a merged company. “This year marks 150 years of proud past for the Fo
Following the successful deployment of the world’s first community owned tidal turbine in Shetland, Nova Innovation (Scotland) and ELSA (Belgium) have secured funding to build the Shetland Tidal Array – potentially the world’s first in-sea tidal array. The £3.75M investment package supported by Scot
UK Signs FID Contracts for Five Offshore Wind Projects The UK Government has signed eight contracts awarded under the Final Investment Decision (FID) Enabling for Renewables process, including five contracts for offshore wind projects. Drydocks Completes DolWin Beta Construction in Dubai Drydocks Wo
One of OWI-Lab’s researchers Dr. Ir. Jan Helsen has became a member of the TP Wind Platform, Working Group 2 – Wind Power Systems. This Working Group focuses on aspects enabling costs reductions on the wind turbine side (onshore and offshore). Key areas in this subject may include: materials, drive-
