The topside for the Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta offshore substation has been loaded onto a vessel at Drydocks World Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The topside is expected to start its journey to the Dutch North Sea shortly, TenneT, the platform’s owner and operator, said. Mammoet was in charge of l
Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy is seeking input from the industry and the interested parties on the elements relevant to the draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the country’s first offshore wind project. Lithuania plans to start the auctioning procedure for a 700 MW offshore wind project
Empire Offshore Wind has awarded the engineering consulting group, COWI, with a contract to deliver a turnkey design for the wind turbine foundations for the Empire Wind 1 and 2 projects off the coast of Long Island, New York. This is COWI’s largest offshore wind engineering contract in the US to da
DEME Offshore has contracted Proserv Controls for the delivery of the monitoring system for inter-array cables for the first two phases of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project. Proserv will supply its Electro Cable Guard (ECG) cable monitoring system (CMS) for Dogger Bank A and B, integrating appli
South Fork Wind, a 50-50 joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource, has approved the final investment decision (FID) for the project that will be New York’s first offshore wind farm. This final investment solidifies the companies’ commitment to the 132 MW offshore wind farm. The FID also marked th
The first of the 71 gravity-based foundations for the Fécamp offshore wind farm has been completed at the Grand Port Maritime of Le Havre, France. The consortium of Bouygues Construction, Saipem, and Boskalis is in charge of supplying and installing the foundations for the 500 MW wind farm located b
Bureau Technical Services has announced that they will support the UK-based Sofia offshore wind farm project with quality and inspection services activity. According to the company, its initial involvement is the export cables package at Prysmian’s Pikkala factory in Finland, where Bureau Technical
Italian oil and gas major Eni has completed the aquisition of a 20 per cent stake in the 1.2 GW Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm in the UK. Eni bought the stakes from Equinor (ten per cent) and SSE Renewables (ten per cent). Eni is already a partner with SSE Renewables and Equinor on […]
Van Oord’s jack-up MPI Resolution has installed the first wind turbine at the Beleolico wind farm offshore Italy. This is the first wind turbine to be installed on a commercial offshore wind farm anywhere in the Mediterranean sea. The 30 MW Beleolico, also known as the Taranto offshore wind farm, wi
The UK Government has awarded planning consent for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm. Both projects in Vattenfall’s proposed Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone, including the sister project Norfolk Boreas, have now been approved. ”Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas are industry leading proje
Hydrographic and geophysical surveys are set to start on the proposed Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Extension offshore wind projects in March. The vessel Ocean Research is expected to begin the work around 1 March offshore the North Norfolk coast. Activities will continue for an estimated 120 days, e
Offshore platforms for the first two Dogger Bank Wind Farm phases are now well under construction and have started to take shape at Aibel’s facilities. Aibel was selected to deliver the two platforms for the 2.4 GW Dogger Bank A and B in October 2019, with an option for one more for the 1.2 GW Dogge
After signing an agreement with Glennmont Partners in October 2021, Ørsted has now completed the divestment of 50 per cent of the 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. This was the developer’s first farm-down to an institutional investor signed prior to taking a final investment d
German energy company RWE has selected France’s Atlantique Offshore Energy to engineer, procure, construct, install, and commission the offshore substation for the F.E.W. Baltic II wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. The substation will collect and export the power generated at the 350 MW wind farm
