Sif has signed a final contract with Kajima Corporation to deliver the monopiles and transition pieces for the Akita-Noshiro offshore wind project in Japan. The Dutch company is in charge of manufacturing 33 monopiles and 33 transition pieces which together make 25KTon of steel. Sif will store the s
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) is organizing an economic mission for offshore wind to Poland and Lithuania. The economic mission will take place in Szczecin, Poland, and Vilnius, Lithuania, from 20 to 24 April. According to RVO.nl, opportunities for the offshore wind sector in the Baltic
The Responsible Offshore Science Alliance (ROSA) has appointed Lyndie Hice-Dunton as its first executive director. Hice-Dunton officially assumed the role of Executive Director on 10 February. According to ROSA, the new appointment has over a decade of experience in fisheries science and environment
Seabed surveys at Star of the South, Australia’s first offshore wind project, are set to begin in March. According to the project developer, specialists will carry out the seabed studies from Lakes Entrance using the vessel Silver Star. The surveys include mapping the seafloor, measuring water depth
Oceanteam Solutions has secured a three-year contract to rent its 4000Te carousel for Global Marine Group’s vessel. According to Oceanteam, the 4000Te carousel will be customized with a smaller basket and grillage outer diameter to fit the vessel. The company has already started on the engineering a
We are bringing you a list of ten most-read articles on the site for the month of February. Haliade X-12 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Has Another Record-Breaking Day The HaliadeX-12 MW offshore wind turbine prototype in the Port of Rotterdam has set a new world record by being the first wind turbine eve
Offshore piling works have been completed on the Moray East wind farm in the Moray Firth off the North East coast of Scotland, the developers of the 950MW project said. Work to install the pin-piles in the seabed commenced in May of last year, using DEME Offshore’s jack-up installation vessel Apollo
The 145-metre main crane boom has been installed on DEME Group’s DP3 offshore installation vessel Orion at Liebherr’s facility in Rostock, Germany. The Liebherr HLC 295000 crane has a lifting capacity of 5,000 tonnes and an outreach of more 35 metres. It could lift nine fully loaded Airbus A380 airc
The first of the two offshore substation topsides to be installed on the SeaMade wind farm in the Belgian North Sea has been loaded onto a barge at ENGIE Fabricom’s yard in Hoboken, Belgium. The 487MW SeaMade is a combination of two offshore wind projects previously known as Mermaid and Seastar. The
North Norfolk District Council, working in partnership with East Suffolk Council, has expressed concerns about the impact of proposed onshore National Grid cable connections for offshore wind farms and wider implications for the district in a letter addressed to the UK Department of Business, Energy
EEW Offshore Structures Britain (EEW OSB) has upended the first transition piece for the Hornsea Two offshore wind project in the UK. In June 2019, Ørsted placed an order with EEW Special Pipe Constructions for 30 transition pieces for the 1.4GW project. The remaining 135 transition pieces will be m
The first inter-array cable has been installed at the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Nexans is providing up to 190km of inter-array cable rated at a maximum operating capacity of 72.5kV for the 752MW project, while Van Oord is in charge of the transport and installation. Va
The NortH2 project partners aim to generate around 3GW to 4 GW of wind energy for the production of hydrogen before 2030, and possibly raise the capacity to 10GW by 2040.
A consortium comprising the Belgian offshore wind developer Parkwind, Fluxys, and Eoly, is moving forward with a project to build a power-to-gas installation in Zeebrugge to convert renewable electricity into hydrogen through electrolysis. The developers gathered around the Hyoffwind project aim to
