Estonian and Latvian governments have opened a tender looking for services that will lead them towards identifying two most suitable areas for their joint offshore wind development. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original arti
A consortium between Vietsovpetro, PTSC G&S and Fugro has won a contract for offshore geotechnical survey services for the 3.5 GW La Gan offshore wind project in Vietnam. As part of the contract, Fugro will carry out offshore geotechnical surveys using its geotechnical vessel Fugro Mariner and deliv
North Star Renewables, which won the Dogger Bank Wind Farm tender for the delivery of three service operations vessels (SOVs) earlier this year, is set to sign shipbuilding contracts for the first two SOV daughter craft this September, and the company decided to build them in the UK. According to th
Ørsted has selected the testing, inspection and certification provider UL to deliver project certifications for the turbines and foundations at its 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 and 242 MW Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. Project certification, part of the licensing process of offshore wind f
After announcing their intention to bid in the ScotWind seabed leasing this May, British oil & gas major BP and German offshore wind developer EnBW have now detailed on their plan in Scotland, which encompasses more than offshore wind. With an investment of GBP 10 billion (around EUR 11.65 billion),
Equinor has submitted a bid for floating wind development offshore Scotland in the ScotWind auction, the company confirmed on 19 July. With around half of the sites being floating offshore wind opportunities, the offshore energy company said it believed the Scottish Government was offering a great o
Magnora Offshore Wind, a joint venture (JV) between Magnora and TechnipFMC, has submitted two applications in the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland, the company informed on 19 July. The two companies, which established the joint venture earlier this year, did not detail on the projects, but
RWE has announced its participation in the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland. While the company did not specify the technology it plans to use, it did highlight its involvement in new floating wind projects worldwide in relation to the new projects to be built off the Scottish coasts. “As pa
Aker Solutions has reported that the company won an EPCI contract for an offshore HVDC converter platform as part of a consortium that was awarded and EPCI contract for a HVDC transmission system for a large offshore wind project. The company did not name its customer, consortium, or the offshore wi
Cerulean Winds has signed an agreement with px Group to support onshore green hydrogen plants and associated industrial infrastructure at sites in Scotland and England as part of its 200-turbine floating wind-to-hydrogen project in the North Sea. The UK operator of large-scale industrial facilities
Shell and Scottish Power Renewables, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Iberdrola, have joined forces to bid to develop the world’s first large-scale floating offshore wind farms in the north-east of Scotland. The partnership has submitted multiple proposals for new large-scale floating offshore wind farm
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has ordered a 2,600-tonne Leg Encircling Crane (LEC) from Huisman for Eneti’s new build Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV). The crane has a 147-metre long boom, capable of reaching 170 metres above deck. With the lifting capacity of 2,600 tonnes,
Green Investment Group (GIG) has selected Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) as an Owner’s Engineer and Package Manager for its offshore wind farms in South Korea. For GIG, ODE will manage a range of packages including foundations, cables, electrical interface, and onshore engineering, and will suppo
Granada Material Handling has secured three new contracts from Dogger Bank Tier 1 suppliers. Smulders will see 95 Granada cranes installed on the first phase of the wind farm, Dogger Bank A, and 95 cranes installed on the second phase of the wind farm, Dogger Bank B. One crane will be installed on e
