Jack-Up Barge has announced signing a multi-year charter agreement with the German BARD Group for Jack-Up Barge’s Self Elevating Platforms JB-115 and JB-117. The contract is valued at in excess of EUR 100 million. Both platforms will be deployed in the BARD Offshore 1 offshore wind farm – the larges
A group of Taiwanese experts visited Germany from Aug. 14-19 on a government-sponsored trip to learn about offshore wind energy and build… By Lilian Lin and Jamie Wang (focustaiwan) [mappress] Source: focustaiwan, August 22, 2011
Vos Prodect is proud to announce that the Cable Hang-off System has been qualified with the final product test, that had been executed with the presence of a well-known cable manufacturer on 13th July. The Cable Hang-off System has been engineered & developed in 6 months time frame in accordance wit
The global warming in recent years showed the major need for green renewable energy. The heavy heat waves, floods, melting icebergs and the many natural disasters that struck all the continents have created a situation that does not allow us continue to produce energy in ways that pollutes the globe
GCube, the leading provider of insurance services for renewable energy initiatives, has increased its underwriting capacity to $680 million for wind energy and solar projects worldwide. Despite a contracting insurance market, the additional capacity was raised separately from existing Lloyd’s underw
The first transition piece for Walney 2 was placed on 16 April. Less than four months later, all 51 transition pieces have been installed. On the night of 5 to 6 August, the last TP was installed, and Goliath has now demobilised and left the site. 43 turbines installed in Walney 2 and 19 array [&hel
The Danish ship owner Offshore Marine Services (OMS) has recently secured a new contract for support services on the London Array offshore wind farm. The job will be handled with the multipurpose offshore support vessel OMS Pollux, which has just completed work on one of the other major energy proje
Niels Bergh-Hansen, 62, member of DONG Energy’s Group Management and Executive Vice President of the business units Generation and Renewables, has decided to retire as of 1 October 2011. “You need to quit while you’re ahead and now it’s time for me to stop. I’ve been very pleased with my job and I’m
A North-Sea wind farm contributes to increased biodiversity and has hardly any negative effects on fauna, according to a Dutch research report. For two years a research team studied benthic organisms (life at the sea bed), fish, birds and marine mammals at the OWEZ offshore wind farm near Egmond aan
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. ,a leading wave energy technology company,announces the deployment for sea trials of a unique autonomous wave energy device, marking an important milestone in the expansion of the Company’s PowerBuoy product line. This latest deployment is an autonomous PowerBuoy® desi
GC Rieber Shipping and the subsea contractor Technocean has agreed on a one year extension of the charter regarding vessel “Polar Prince”. The time-charter with Technocean for the subsea vessel “Polar Prince” has been extended to September 2012. The vessel is engaged in subsea operations related to
Scientists have requested a two-year extension to the L-Aħrax Point wind mast permit to confirm results on the viability of an offshore wind… by Matthew Xuereb (timesofmalta) [mappress] Source: timesofmalta, August 22, 2011
Neptune Wind intends to develop, construct and operate an utility scale offshore wind farm about 20 nautical miles south of the Massachusetts/Rhode Island border. The project, called Nomans Wind, is being planned as a 500 MW generation facility and will employ next generation offshore turbines desig
Andrew Jamieson, regulation and markets director at Scottish Power Renewables and chair of green energy body RenewableUK, will head with… by Karolin Schaps and Jane Baird (reuters) [mappress] Source: reuters, August 19, 2011;
