Russian oil & gas company Zarubezhneft and DEME Concessions Wind have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop a 1 GW Vinh Phong wind farm offshore Vietnam. The consortium plans to commission the project’s first phase with 600 MW capacity by 2026 and the second phase with 400 MW capac
Offshore construction is in full swing at Ørsted’s 900 MW Changhua 1 and 2a wind farm off Changhua County, Taiwan. The second of the two offshore substation jacket foundations has now been installed at the site. The first substation jacket was installed by Heerema Marine Contractors’ (HMC) vessel Ae
Japanese classification society ClassNK and the Carbon Trust have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the progress of offshore wind power generation in Japan. This agreement will enable ClassNK and the Carbon Trust to collaborate on assisting national initiatives to improve progres
Germany-headquartered EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) has sold the facility of EEW Offshore Structures Britain (OSB) in Teesside, UK, to Wilton Engineering, a neighbour of EEW OSB. EEW officially handed over the site to Wilton on 15 July. Since the start of production in 2015, EEW OSB has compl
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has ordered a 2,600-tonne Leg Encircling Crane (LEC) from Huisman for Eneti’s new build Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV). The crane has a 147-metre long boom, capable of reaching 170 metres above deck. With the lifting capacity of 2,600 tonnes,
Van Oord’s jack-up vessel Aeolus arrived at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm site today (16 July) after leaving the Port of Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte terminal on 14 July following the maritime authorities’ go-ahead to return to work off France. The vessel will now resume with the drilling and instal
WindFloat Atlantic has become the world’s first classed offshore wind farm, after its three 8.4 MW floating turbines were accepted by the ABS Class Committee. The three ABS-classed, semi-submersible floating foundations are designed by Principle Power and are housing MHI Vestas turbines which make a
Arthur Kill Terminal LLC has entered into an agreement with certain funds managed by Apollo Funds for the exclusive right to invest in the Arthur Kill Terminal project, an offshore wind energy staging and assembly port under development in Staten Island, New York. New York-based Atlantic Offshore Te
SOCAR and Technip Energies have signed a cooperation agreement which, among other things, will see the two companies working on a joint pilot project for powering upstream operations in Azerbaijan’s sector of the Caspian Sea with electricity produced by a floating wind turbine. If the project moves
Guangzhou Salvage has installed China’s first floating wind turbine off the coast of Yangjiang City in Guangdong Province, the company reported via social media on 14 July. The floating wind turbine, independently developed by MingYang Smart Energy, has been installed for demonstration purposes at t
Thai energy company Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC) has agreed to acquire a 25 per cent stake in the 589 MW Changfang and Xidao wind farm offshore Taiwan. Global Renewable Power Company Limited (GRSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of GPSC, entered into an agreement with Copenhagen In
The Maine Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) has identified a preferred site for the proposed floating offshore wind research array within a narrowed area of interest in the US federal waters in the Gulf of Maine. The GEO has now invited comments on the preferred site, with the comment period open until
Green Investment Group (GIG) has selected Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) as an Owner’s Engineer and Package Manager for its offshore wind farms in South Korea. For GIG, ODE will manage a range of packages including foundations, cables, electrical interface, and onshore engineering, and will suppo
DNV will lead the process safety study to identify the main environmental, safety and operational risks for the world’s first offshore green hydrogen production facility, which will be put into operation next year in France. The risks DNV will be investigating include the floating barge, fuel cells
