German transmission system operator in charge of grid connections in the Baltic Sea has issued a tender for routing services for the grid connection route OST-1-4. The work scope includes pre-route planning services and preparation of the necessary technical approval documents for the seaside sectio
LOC Group has won a contract with Cong ty Phan Dau Tu Dien Gio Hoa Binh1 to support the development of the Hoa Binh 1 offshore wind project in Vietnam. LOC will provide marine warranty services and consulting services, and will give guidance and recommendations to contractors on how best to meet pro
Energinet has launched a tender searching for environmental engineering consultancy services for the Hesselø offshore wind project in Denmark. The tender concerns consultancy services for preparing environmental assessments, planning consents and marine environmental baseline investigations for the
Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) has secured a contract to provide marine supervision services to Siemens Gamesa for the Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan. SMC said it will be working with ATLAS, its proprietary marine management software solution, to ensure the delivery of services througho
Danish transmission system operator Energinet has issued a call for tenders for LiDAR measurements at the Hesselø offshore wind project area in Kattegatt, 30 kilometres north of the coast of the island of Seeland (Zealand). The tender call states that a floating LiDAR buoy will be deployed at the pr
Ørsted has awarded CHC Helicopter with a contract for aerial transportation during the construction and operations phases of the Hornsea Two offshore wind project in the UK. Leonardo AW139 and AW169 helicopters based at Humberside Airport in Lincolnshire will be used for crew transfers and cargo fli
Vattenfall has issued a tender seeking a manufacturer of inter-array cables for the Vesterhav Syd and Nord nearshore wind farms in Denmark. The selected party will be in charge of supplying all the required work for the inter-array cable manufacturing for the two wind farms. The contract would start
The Dutch government has selected a consortium led by Tractebel to perform the wind resource assessment (WRA) for the Hollandse Kust (West) offshore wind farm zone. The consortium which includes the Von Karman Institute (VKI) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) will perform the assign
Offshore wind developer Parkwind has signed a contract with Steelwind for the fabrication of the monopile foundations for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm. The contract was signed at Steelwind’s headquarters in Nordenham, Germany. This signature follows Parkwind’s recent order of the wind farm’s
Ørsted has awarded Semco Maritime with a one-year service contract for programmed preventive maintenance on the two offshore substations at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 and 2 wind farms offshore Germany. Semco Maritime will perform maintenance work on the substations’ LV utilities and fire, safety, and st
Van Oord has awarded Bauer Spezialtiefbau with a contract for piling works at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France. The German company will install 190 bored piles at 62 locations for three-legged jackets, as well as one substation location consisting of a four-legged jacket foundation.
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued a tender seeking geophysical and hydrographic monitoring for the geological preliminary investigations at three offshore wind zones. The tender is divided into two lots, including monitoring of geophysical surveys for 2020, 2021 and
Denmark is accelerating the tendering procedure for the Hesselø offshore wind farm to allow for the commissioning of the project one year earlier than initially planned. Located in Kattegatt, Hesselø is the second of the three offshore wind farms proposed in the Energy Agreement 2018, the first bein
A couple of days after securing a marine warranty job on a Vietnamese project, and on top of the recently won contracts for offshore wind farms in China and Taiwan, LOC Group informed it was also awarded a contract for the Zhanjiang Wailuo II and X offshore wind farms in China. Under the contract, w
