Akselos has been commissioned by the partners behind the TetraSpar floating foundation demonstration project in Norway to provide its structural simulation software, Integra®, to model the floater. The software is said to help accelerate the demonstration of the industrialised TetraSpar floating off
Fred. Olsen Renewables and Vattenfall have entered into a partnership on a 50/50 basis in order to bid in the upcoming leasing round for offshore wind in Scotland. Scotland’s upcoming offshore wind leasing round – ScotWind – will include up to 15 areas amounting to 10 GW in capacity. Bids for lease
The Danish Energy Agency has paused the tendering procedure for the Hesselø offshore wind farm to allow more time for the analysis of the results of preliminary seabed studies. The tender was paused after the analysis of Energinet’s preliminary seabed surveys identified soft clay bottoms in large pa
A series of showcases about contracting opportunities for the Sofia offshore wind project in the UK is taking place in July. Van Oord, the EPCI contractor for the project’s foundations and inter-array cables, will hold its webinar on 6 July. The Dutch company will cover concrete structures, secondar
The Danish Energy Agency has published the final tender conditions for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm – Thor. With the publication, all the basic elements of the tender are in place, and the bidders now have four months to prepare their final bids for the offshore wind farm. The deadline for s
Following the financial close on the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm, Vestas has secured a firm order for Parkwind’s first project in Germany, which will also be the first to use a new floating installation method to erect the wind turbines. Under the contract with Parkwind, Vestas will deliver 27
Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) has been appointed to assist carry out various research projects relating to offshore wind foundations for a company in China, which the Irish engineering consultancy left unnamed. The research projects on offshore wind foundations, with particular reference to the
Several tenders for services in the offshore wind sector have been published over the last few days in Germany, including those from two offshore wind farm operators looking for maintenance work on four of their projects. The contract notices from the two German operators – seeking annual wind turbi
The Danish Energy Agency has awarded Sweco Danmak with a contract for technical advice and assistance in relation to the establishment of an energy island. The work will support the Danish Energy Agency in building optimal knowledge about the project, whose development started with the political dec
DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH & Co. KG has selected the providers of air and water crew transfer services for the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The operator of the wind farms, a joint venture between Stadtwerke München and Vattenfall, has selected Denmark’s
DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH & Co. KG has issued a tender for operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the two offshore wind farms in Germany. DanTysk and Sandbank will both come under a new joint operating strategy. Based on this, a subsequent list of annual O&M services for the wind tu
Ørsted has awarded two cable protection system (CPS) contracts to CRP Subsea for the Borkum Riffgrund 3 and Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. CRP Subsea, formerly known as Trelleborg Offshore UK, will supply 223 of its NjordGuard monopile entry cable protection systems for the inter-array
Dutch oil major Shell has partnered with Norwegian hydropower producers BKK and Lyse to apply for licences in two areas currently offered by Norwegian government for offshore wind development. The consortium is now working to prepare applications for projects in the Utsira Nord area, deemed better s
Ireland-based offshore engineering consultancy Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) will be providing geoscience advisory and engineering consultancy services for the Baltica 1 offshore wind project in Poland. Under a contract with the developer PGE Baltica, GDG’s scope of work for the offshore wind f
