German transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has awarded Heinrich Hirdes GmbH, a subsidiary of Boskalis, with a contract to provide backfilling of the subsea cable routes on the Baltic 1 and Baltic 2 grid connections. The services relate to the entire project period. In designated areas along t
DEME Group’s DP3 offshore installation vessel Orion has undergone the first liquid natural gas (LNG) bunkering. The world’s largest LNG bunker vessel Kairos, operated by Nauticor, supplied Orion with LNG at the Port of Rostock in Germany. According to DEME, this marks only the second ship-to-ship LN
The first turbines, with a capacity of 1.5MW, were installed in 2000 at the 10.5MW Utgrunden offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea in Sweden.
Ørsted U.S has formed a research partnership to study the North Atlantic right whale and use the learnings for its offshore wind portfolio. Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind partnered with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the University of Rhode Island (URI), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu
Ørsted has opened the operations & maintenance (O&M) base for the Borssele 1 + 2 offshore wind farm in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. Located in Vlissingen-Buitenhaven at the North Sea Port, the 2,100m2 facility will provide employment to 50-100 persons. All construction work and maintenance will be c
NAVA Ship Design Office has designed a wind farm support vessel (WFSV) which will service the offshore wind sector in Poland. The vessel will provide accommodation for 16 persons and will feature two MTU 12 V 2000 M72 diesel engines speeding up to a maximum of 25kn. Poland has set a goal to develop
New Jersey’s Governor Phil Murphy has signed into law a bill which expands the definition of a “qualified offshore wind project” to include an “open access offshore wind transmission facility”. Open access offshore wind transmission facility is a high voltage transmission facility that conforms to a
The first of the total of 90 wind turbine foundations has been installed at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.
XOCEAN’s XO-450 unmanned surface vessel (USV) has carried out survey work at the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm in the UK. The XO-450 conducted seabed surveys on seven of the project’s 140 turbines over the weekend at the site located 23km off the coast. The vessel was remotely controlled from s
Tekmar Energy Limited has secured contract awards from Global Marine Group and JDR Cables for the supply of TekLink® cable protection systems and cable hang-off assemblies for the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. Global Marine Group has contracted Tekmar Energy to supply 150 patented TekLink® Mecha
Installed offshore wind capacity in U.S. waters could reach 20GW by 2030, according to research by Rystad Energy. The research writes that the annual investments in the U.S. offshore wind sector could surpass USD 15 billion by the mid-2020s. Such a trajectory means capital expenditure in U.S. offsho
VLCV BV has completed the installation of two ducts, including bellmouths, for the cable system of the Borssele offshore wind project in the Netherlands. VLCV used the direct drill technique which consists of an onshore prefabricated pipeline that is directly connected with a drill head and installs
ZTT International has selected Borealis to provide HVDC insulation and semi-conductor technology for the Rudong Jiangsu offshore wind project in China. Borealis will provide its Borlink LS4258DCE insulation compound and LE0550DC semiconductor for the cables that will be able to transport 400kV of en
Diverse Marine has signed a contract with Turner Iceni for the modification and upcycling of the Iceni Courage crew transfer vessel.
