A2SEA’s self-propelled jack-up vessel Sea Installer is currently mobilising in Liverpool and preparing for the installation of 32 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines on DONG Energy’s 252MW Burbo Bank Extension, the Danish company said. The vessel is preparing to handle the new large turbines, which will make th
Dutch OOS International Group B.V. has signed a fixed contract for the engineering and construction of two Semi-Submersible Crane Vessels (SSCVs) with China Merchant Industry Holdings which will be used for installation and decommissioning of offshore wind structures. OOS will equip its two new SSCV
Denmark’s Port of Esbjerg is currently a proverbial beehive of activity as major offshore wind turbine makers are working on a number of projects located in the North Sea and the English Channel. The photo above was taken on August 02 and gives an overview of the installation projects currently bein
China’s Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding Co. has signed a contract for the construction of five wind farm support vessels which once delivered will serve offshore wind farms off Fujian province. The five WFSVs were reportedly ordered by Fujian Ship Investment Company. The twin-hull WFSVs will have a ma
Brave Tern has installed the first of five Haliade nacelles on the 30MW Block Island offshore wind farm, the first wind farm of its kind in US waters, located some three miles south-east of Block Island, Rhode Island. The installation of the blades, delivered to the site by lift boats L/B Caitlin, a
AG EMS and its subsidiary EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO) had three reasons to celebrate last Saturday as they inaugurated their upgraded Landemole Knock in Emden, the SWATH Windea FIVE received a new name, and the new offshore catamaran, Windea FOUR, was christened. “We have not only renovated the
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has contracted the Hamburg-based design and engineering company HeavyLift@Sea GmbH to design grillages for the sea fastening of wind turbine blades built for DONG Energy’s 258 MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm. The 80-metre-long blades are part of the 32 MHI Vestas
Seaway Heavy Lifting’s Oleg Strashnov has installed the last of the 67 foundations for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm, Statoil, the owner, developer and future operator of the wind farm, reports. Oleg Strashnov carried out the inshore loading, transportation and installation of the monopile foundati
Deepwater Wind, the developer of the first offshore wind farm in US waters, the 30MW Block Island, shared a photo of the jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern easing into place first tower sections onto one of the wind farm’s five foundations. There is just one more tower section to be mounted on t
Jan De Nul has installed the transition piece which will support the Offshore High Voltage Station (OHVS) on the Nobelwind offshore wind farm in the Belgian part of the North Sea. The 165 MW Nobelwind offshore wind farm is expected to be completed in the second half of 2017 and will feature 5
Balfour Beatty and subcontractor LMR are getting ready to perform marine works nearshore Peterhead, Scotland, for Statoil’s 30MW Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, Kis-Orca reports. The marine works will be carried out in the period of approximately 8 to 20 August 2016, and will involve drilling of a 660 m
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has extended a trenching scope on the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea with the award of a seabed clearance project. The Scottish company was last year awarded a contract by main contractor Prysmian Group to carry out pre-cut seabed trenching, prior to
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern reached Newport, Rhode Island, on 31 July. The vessel, loaded with five Haliade nacelles for the 30MW Block Island wind farm, being developed by Deepwater Wind and soon to be the first offshore wind farm in US waters, has also made con
Clinton Marine Survey AB, on behalf of Nexans Norway AS, has started a survey for unexploded ordnance (UXO) along the Beatrice offshore wind farm export cable routes in the Moray Firth, Scotland, according to Brown and May Marine, the fisheries liaison for the survey. The UXO survey commenced at the
