Mitsubishi Corporation has entered into an agreement with EDP Renewables to acquire 33.4% of shares in Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited (MOWEL) through its wholly owned UK-based subsidiary Diamond Generating Europe Limited (DGE).
South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. and Vietnam’s state-run utility Vietnam Electricity have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop a pilot offshore wind project off Vietnam.
Scour Prevention Systems has won a full US patent for its Scour Prevention Mattresses (SPM), designed to protect offshore structures, cables and pipelines from scour.
The Netherlands will reveal the winner of the permit to build and operate the Borssele V Innovation Site by the end of April.
Dutch offshore contractor for suction pile anchors and foundations SPT Offshore is engaged in a project to perform research and consulting works on the wind turbine suction foundation design for two offshore wind projects in China.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has added a MacArtney generator rotation tool (GRT) to the portfolio of equipment securing long-term storage of SWT-6.0/7.0/8.0 nacelles with generators and hubs.
Poland’s biggest oil and gas company, PKN ORLEN (Polski Koncern Noftowy), has announced a tender for the development of a preliminary technical concept to determine the options for preparing and implementing a project involving the construction of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea.
Dogger Bank Joint Venture, developing three out of four 1.2GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farms, will hold a Meet the Buyer event on 23 May at the Hardwick Hall Hotel in Sedgefield, North East England, to present business opportunities to UK companies. Besides presentations by the Dogger Bank JV team,
The UAE-based offshore engineering and fabrication company Lamprell recorded USD 98.1 million net loss in 2017, USD 80 million of which was attributed to the operational challenges faced on the East Anglia One project.
The Global Marine Group (GMG) has appointed Mark Preece as Managing Director of CWind, the group’s offshore renewable business.
A capacity of 1,300MW of offshore wind in wind turbine components was shipped via Port of Esbjerg in 2017 – 200MW more than in the previous year – according to the port’s annual results, which show a 2.2% increase in turnover at EUR 31.61 million and a net profit of EUR 10.83 million.
The Swedish Energy Agency has, on behalf of the government, examined two different models to remove the grid connection costs for offshore wind power.
K2 Management has opened an office in Gdynia, Poland, in support of the growing wind and solar markets in Eastern and Central Europe.
Dutch offshore specialist Van Oord reported EUR 403 million revenue coming from offshore wind activities in 2017, a 2.3% increase compared to EUR 394 million revenue recorded in 2016.
