The East Anglia One offshore wind project has reached the halfway turbine installation milestone with the 51st Siemens Gamesa turbine put in place. DEME Group’s vessel Sea Installer completed the installation of 51 out od 102 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the project site 43km off the Suffolk coast
BMT has delivered Njord Wind, the first 23m mid-range crew transfer vessel (CTV), to Njord Offshore. The vessel, built at Cheoy Lee Shipyard in China, was completed in August after a year in construction and delivered to Europe to service the offshore wind sector. According to BMT, Njord Wind has a
High Speed Transfers’ (HST) new fast crew supply vessel HST Euan has begun sea trials offshore Antalya in Turkey. To remind, HST placed the order with Damen Shipyards for HST Euan, the fourth Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710, this June. The vessel was floated out at the beginning of November. HST Euan,
The UK-based InfraStrata has completed the acquisition of the assets of Harland and Wolff. InfraStrata now has 100% ownership of the assets following a GBP 3.30 million payment to the administrator BDO LLP, in line with the payment schedule. An additional GBP 1.45 million is payable by 30 April 2020
Amsterdam Capital Partners (AMSCAP), G8 Subsea, Saemangeum Development and Investment Agency of Korea (SDIA) and Saemangeum Offshore Wind Power (SOWP) have agreed to jointly develop offshore wind in Korea’s Samangeum Industrial Complex. AMSCAP and G8 will work mainly alongside SOWP respectively in a
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has selected Vineyard Wind to advance to contract negotiations for its 804MW Park City Wind project as part of the state’s Request for Proposals (RFP). The Park City Wind project will now enter into contract negotiations with t
Siemens Gamesa has reached a milestone with the installation of its 1,000th offshore Direct Drive wind turbine. The milestone unit is the 51st turbine that Siemens Gamesa recently installed on the 714MW East Anglia One offshore wind project in the UK. Siemens Gamesa said that a further 1,000 Direct
K2 Management has advised the Irish electricity company ESB in acquiring a 50% stake in the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in Scotland. K2 Management undertook a full scale technical due diligence of the project, including analysis of the project’s design, construction contracts and me
Equinor has signed an agreement with the Prysmian Group for the supply of inter-array cables for the Empire Wind offshore wind project in New York. Prysmian revealed that it is responsible for the design, supply and storage of approximately 150km of 66kV XLPE-insulated inter-array cables, which will
Global Wind Service (GWS) has secured a contract to support MHI Vestas on the Northwester 2 offshore wind project by providing technicians for the installation of turbines. The deal includes GWS offshore installation technicians supporting the installation of 23 MHI Vestas 164-9.5MW turbines at the
The Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind project has reached the halfway turbine installation point as 16 out of 32 units have been erected. Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Taillevent installed the 16 Senvion 6.2M152 turbines in the northeastern part of the project site offshore Germany, wit
Dropsafe has signed a distribution deal with the Dutch fire and blast protection specialist Van Dam for dropped objects prevention solutions for the European offshore wind market. According to Dropsafe, the offshore wind sector is subject to significant dropped object risks, with personnel transferr
Rotech Subsea Ltd. has completed a major sand-wave clearance scope at the Norther offshore wind project in Belgium. The UK-based company deployed its non-contact TRS2 Controlled Flow Excavation tool to carry out the work for Van Oord. According to Rotech, the result was that instead of the two campa
Recruitment specialist ersg has won a tender to be the sole supplier of fabrication management personnel to two undisclosed offshore wind farms in Asia. Additionally, ersg has also agreed terms with a company building floating wind foundations to supply contractors for the entire project lifecycle,
