Mitsui and Hokutaku have established Horizon Ocean Management (HOM), a joint venture company providing inspection and maintenance services to the offshore wind sector. The new company brings together wind turbine maintenance expertise developed by Hokutaku and the Mitsui Group, and Mitsui’s customer
Australian companies Worley and MMA Offshore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly provide integrated services to the offshore wind market in Taiwan and the broader Asia Pacific region. Under the arrangement, Worley will provide turnkey operations and maintenance services and MMA will
While offshore wind has performed strongly during the pandemic, continuing with next to no business interruption, the sector still faces some significant supply chain risks. This is according to an insurance company specialising in renewable energy, one of few businesses with the capability to compr
CHC Helicopter has secured a contract to provide crew change services to DEME Offshore throughout the construction phase of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. CHC will operate its flights from Saint-Nazaire Montoir Airport and will service three offshore support vessels during the vario
Seven European transmission system operators have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the launch of Eurobar, an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The Eurobar partners include Germany’s 50Hertz Transmission GmbH and Amprion, Sweden’s Affärsverket svenska kraft
Tekmar Energy has secured a cable protection system (CPS) supply contract for an offshore wind farm located off the Shandong Peninsula in North East China. Tekmar Energy will supply its TekLink Mechanical Latch CPS technology to protect the project’s subsea inter-array cables as they transition from
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to cooperate on offshore wind development. The aim of the cooperation is to assess the potential of offshore wind in Azerbaijan and the development of a roadmap, and later,
US oil major Chevron, together with Norwegian company Moreld Ocean Wind, is set to invest in offshore wind technology at Ocergy, a US company developing a low-cost floating wind foundation and a multi-disciplinary environmental monitoring buoy. Ocergy secured the investments through its Series A equ
Vattenfall has once again selected Denmark’s Port of Hvide Sande as an Operations & Maintenance base, this time for the Vesterhav Syd and the Vesterhav Nord offshore wind farms. Back in 2019, Vattenfall chose the Port of Hvide Sande as the O&M base for the 406.7 MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm. Va
Japanese marine contractor Penta-Ocean Construction and DEME Offshore have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to establish a joint venture company to collaborate in the field of offshore wind construction in Japan. In March 2020, Penta-Ocean and DEME Offshore signed a memorandum of understanding to co
Dublin-based offshore engineering consultancy Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) has secured three ground modelling contracts for offshore wind projects in the Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. These projects have circa 1 GW of capacity each and are in the early development stages. GDG’
The installation of the MAATS Tech cable lay equipment package onboard cable laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora has been completed. The MAATS Tech team installed and tested the package which includes the carousel, loading arms, access tower and control cabin at the Ulstein Verft shipyard. According t
XOCEAN has completed a survey at the Hornsea One offshore wind farm in the UK, using its uncrewed surface vessel (USV). The USV conducted the offshore operation in three-and-a-half-days, mobilising from Bridlington Harbour in Yorkshire. The vessel was launched and recovered from shore, 120 kilometre
Norwegian seismic company SeaBird Exploration has secured its first contract in the offshore wind sector. SeaBird will provide its survey vessel Petrel Explorer as an accommodation vessel for a wind farm maintenance campaign in the Baltic Sea. The company did not disclose the name of the project, bu
