Cowes-based offshore energy support vessel (OESV) operator, Seacat Services, has launched two vessels with the capacity for 24 industrial personnel – the newly-accepted Seacat Enterprise, and the upgraded Seacat Courageous.
Block Island is no longer powered by diesel generators after the Block Island Power Company transferred the Island’s electrical system to Deepwater Wind’s 30MW Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm in US waters.
Dutch marine services provider Van Wijngaarden Marine Services has taken delivery of Lingestroom, a Damen Shoalbuster 3512, bringing the total number of Shoalbusters in its fleet to five.
The 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea achieved full completion on Friday, April 28, ahead of schedule and under its total budget of EUR 2.8 billion, Northland Power, the wind farm’s majority owner, said.
Vattenfall’s Wind Business Area recorded an uptick in wind generation in the first quarter of 2017 on the back of more than 500MW of added capacity, including the recently commissioned 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm.
Spanish shipbuilder Gondan has launched the first of two Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) ordered by Østensjø Rederi and chartered by DONG Energy.
German energy service provider Clean Energy Sourcing (CLENS) has won a contract to provide TenneT with data on current and forecasted generation on wind farms which will help optimise the transmission system operator’s net and curtailment management.
German offshore wind farms generated 4.8 billion kWh of electricity in the first quarter of 2017, a 36.7 percent jump compared to 3.5 billion kWh of electricity generated offshore Germany in the first quarter of 2016.
DONG Energy reported an operating profit (EBITDA) from continuing operations of DKK 3.3 billion (EUR 443.5 million) in the first quarter of 2017, a 53.5% slide compared with DKK 7.1 billion in Q1 2016, despite a 21% jump in earnings from commissioned wind farms.
The testing of the last MHI Vestas 8MW turbine on the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm was completed this month and the wind farm has been fully commissioned, DONG Energy said.
Norway’s Umoe Mandal has launched its WAVECRAFT Voyager series of high-speed, all-composite service vessels designed to offer fast crew transport and provide an alternative to using helicopters on far offshore installations.
Bremerhaven-based Innoven Marine Service GmbH has emerged as the new manager of the 1984-built Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel Ocean King, which has now been renamed to Lev Twister.
Danish jack-up vessel owner Ziton has reported EUR 29 million revenue for the Fiscal Year 2016, a near 219 per cent increase compared to EUR 9.1 million revenue recorded a year earlier. Ziton more than tripled its revenue in 2016 on the back of increased activity levels and higher utilisation rates
ELA Container Offshore GmbH has delivered two 20-foot offshore multipurpose containers to Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. The containers were installed on board the Siddis Mariner, which is currently operating as a walk-to-work service operation vessel (SOV) on the 400MW Bard Offshore 1 wind farm lo
