Wood has been awarded a new contract by Equinor to deliver modifications to two offshore installations in the Norwegian North Sea to connect electric power from the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm. Equinor’s project replaces energy generated by gas turbines with electricity from the 88MW floating w
Fred. Olsen Ocean has opened a branch office in Taipei, Taiwan, to support the offshore wind business in the Asia Pacific region. The companies represented by the new office include Fred. Olsen Windcarrier AS, Global Wind Service AS and Universal Foundation AS. According to the company, the new offi
WIND is setting up a new cable accessories warehouse at its main cable storage yard in Velsen Noord, the Netherlands. The new facility will function as WIND’s central European warehouse for all cable-related accessories, from where the company will distribute parts to the European wind farms that it
EGS Group has secured a contract to carry out a geophysical survey at Ørsted’s Ocean Wind offshore wind project in New Jersey, the U.S. EGS will use the 50m survey vessel MV Neptune to conduct the survey work at different areas of the 1,100MW wind farm located approximately 15 miles off the coast of
Denmark has initiated studies to find possible locations for one or more energy islands supporting at least 10GW of offshore wind capacity. This corresponds to ten large offshore wind farms that could meet the electricity demand of more than ten million European households. The total investment need
Norway’s energy major Equinor has completed the acquisition of a 50 % interest in the offshore wind development project Bałtyk I in Poland from Polenergia. The Bałtyk I offshore location license allows for development of a wind farm with a capacity up to 1560MW of which Equinor will hold 50%. The co
The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (TRIG) and the Dutch pension investor APG have signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Merkur Offshore GmbH, the owner and operator of the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The two investors signed the agreement with a consortium comp
K2 Management is working as Lender’s Technical Advisor (LTA) on the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A and B Wind Farms, two of the three projects which make up the Dogger Bank development. In September, all three wind farms, which make up the Dogger Bank development, were selected in the Contracts for Diffe
Sylvia Boer has been appointed as the new director of Amsterdam IJmuiden Offshore Ports (AYOP) and will take up her role on 1 February 2020. She will serve as the linchpin between members of the association for offshore companies, government bodies, and stakeholders. Boer’s appointment is designed t
Siemens Gamesa has completed a deal with Societe Generale to convert a EUR 230 million guarantee line to green, the third such line that the company has arranged so far this year, in addition to EUR 1.25 billion arranged with two other banks. Siemens Gamesa will use this line for its worldwide busin
Marine Performance Systems is the winner of the Offshore Wind Innovation Challenge 2019 with its solution for noise reduction during piling, Offshore Wind Innovators said. The three other finalists were Arc Marine, Witteveen & Bos, and Tribosonics. They came up with solutions to optimize a cage cons
Ventolines has selected Marine Coordination Services to supply a range of support personnel for the construction phase of the 382.7MW Windpark Fryslân offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. The arrangement will include the supply of QA, QC inspectors, auditors, and client representatives. “We are gl
World’s leading offshore wind developer Ørsted is seeking a managed service provider (MSP) for sourcing of labour services. This tender concerns sourcing services and has the scope of sourcing labour services and of implementing initiatives aimed at optimising the end-to-end sourcing process and all
Siemens Gamesa has contracted FairWind for turbine pre-assembly work for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind project in the Netherlands and the Yunlin project in Taiwan. The work for Borssele will take place at the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark, with pre-assembly of 94 Siemens Gamesa 8.0-167 DD towers plann
