Green Marine has won a three-year contract to deliver operations and maintenance work for Equinor’s Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. Green Marine will provide its Damen-built 2610 Twin Axe vessel Green Storm to assist in the O&M, as well as support from its onshore team. According to Equinor, G
KEPCO Engineering & Construction Company (KEPCO E&C) has appointed K2 Management to help it deliver the first floating offshore wind farm in Korea for the developer, Ulsan consortium. The project, in the pre-feasibility phase supported by the Korean government, is expected to be approximately 200MW
Global Wind Service (GWS) is carrying out the inspection of the MHI Vestas turbines at the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in Denmark. The Danish company said it is inspecting and certifying ladders, davit cranes, nacelle cranes, hooking on points, lifts, fall arrests, first aid kits and stretchers a
Vattenfall has selected the Port of Hvide Sande as the operations and maintenance hub for the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in Denmark. Located on the Danish west coast, the port will be used as a base for O&M of the project’s 49 MHI Vestas V164-8.3MW turbines. Once Vattenfall establishes a facilit
Innogy has kicked off a recruitment drive for up to 22 roles at its new Triton Knoll operations & maintenance (O&M) base in Grimsby, UK. Adverts for the new roles go live from Wednesday, 31 July, as the developer seeks to identify local talent for a range of jobs. The open positions being advertised
Ørsted Wind Power A/S has selected Fred. Olsen Windcarrier to provide a service jack-up vessel or vessels to assist in major component replacements at offshore wind farms. The scope of services for the tender comprises a charter of a jack-up or jack-ups to carry out heavy lifting operations, and the
Swire Blue Ocean has completed the first operations under a recently signed offshore maintenance and service agreement with Siemens Gamesa. As previously reported, Siemens Gamesa and SBO signed a long-term charter agreement for the jack-up vessel Pacific Orca. The charter has been running since June
DEME Group’s jack-up vessel Innovation is undergoing a major maintenance and repair program at the Damen Verolme yard in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. According to DEME, the program is almost completed and saw the installation of two new leg sections on the offshore installation vessel. After the exte
Vattenfall Wind Power AB and Ziton A/S have signed an extension of their current framework agreement which will see Ziton providing jack-up vessels for major component replacements at Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms for one additional year. As a result, the framework agreement will expire in Novemb
Work to construct a new offshore construction and operations base for Triton Knoll has officially started at Grimsby’s Royal Dock as UK based contractor Tolent gets started on site. Having been awarded the contract last month, Tolent has now begun work to construct control room, office and warehouse
Oteac Ltd, part of Nucore Group, has delivered fire system maintenance services to an offshore transformer platform supporting a 42-turbine wind farm in the Belgian North Sea. The integrated fire and safety services provider performed testing and inspection across a range of fire detection and suppr
Ørsted has awarded the Copenhagen-based Vento Maritime to provide weather services for six of Ørsted’s UK offshore wind farms located in the Irish Sea. Vento Maritime is providing Ørsted with similar services for the company’s Danish offshore wind farms, with a special focus on the lightning risk at
Vattenfall has contracted the Aberdeen-based Rigmar to inspect and maintain subsea structures and cables as well as foundations, turbine transition pieces, subsea cabling, and boat landings at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC). This is Rigmar’s first win as a main contractor in of
GE Renewable Energy will open a new offshore wind factory at Jieyang’s offshore wind cluster in the Chinese province of Guangdong and will establish a new Operation and Development Center in the city of Guangzhou. The new GE offshore wind factory in Jieyang will help to meet Chinese growing demand f
