Louis Dreyfus TravOcean (LDTVO) plans to start the second inter-array cable installation campaign at the Saint-Nazaire offshore France in mid-March. Back in September 2018, a consortium of LDTVO and Prysmian officially secured a contract for the supply and installation of inter-array cables at the F
Transmission system operator TenneT has shared photos showing the damage done to the jacket foundation of the Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta offshore substation following a collision with an out-of-control cargo ship Julietta D during Storm Corrie. As reported, the bulk carrier Julietta D drifted for hour
Deutsche Windtechnik has won a contract to equip the entire Nordergründe offshore wind farm (OWF) with an Aircraft Detection Light System (ADLS). Deutsche Windtechnik will equip the 111 MW wind farm with an ADLS, which comprises a total of 18 Senvion 6.2M 126 wind turbines. All services related to t
The first service operation vessel (SOV) built for the Asian offshore wind market completed six days of sea trials offshore Vietnam back in January. The SOV, to be named TSS Pioneer, is being built by Vard at the Vung Tau shipyard in Vietnam. The vessel will soon be delivered to Ta San Shang Marine,
Dogger Bank C will become the first UK offshore wind farm to use the functionality of its transmission assets to help stabilise voltage on the grid and support multi-million-pound consumer savings, according to National Grid ESO, which selected Dogger Bank C following a competitive tender process. T
USG Industrial Utilities (USG) has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eneco for a portion of electricity generated at the Fryslân wind farm located in lake IJsselmeer, the Netherlands. Starting January 2022, some 350 GWh of electricity generated at the Fryslân wind farm will be supplied to
Heerema Marine Contractors is modifying the giant semi-submersible crane vessel Thialf to be able to access and work on projects in the Baltic Sea such as the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm scheduled to start later this year. Thialf is currently moored at the Calandkanaal, Port of Rotterdam, where
Lamprell is set to deliver the final ten jacket foundations for the Seagreen 1 offshore wind farm in the first quarter of this year, the Dubai-based company said on 7 February. Under a contract signed in 2020 with Subsea 7’s renewables business unit Seaway 7, Lamprell will deliver a total of 30 jack
Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between the Edinburgh-based Red Rock Power Limited and Ireland’s energy company Electricity Supply Board (ESB), has selected Montrose Port as the future operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm. Should the Inch Cape projec
SSE Renewables has issued contract notices seeking Tier 1 contractors for the Arklow Bank Phase 2 wind farm project offshore Ireland. Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 is located approximately 6 to 15 kilometres off the coast of Arklow, Co. Wicklow and covers an area approximately 27 kilometres long and
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA), a US coalition of fishing industry associations and fishing companies, has taken legal action against the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) decision to approve the 806 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm, which recently entered construction. RODA
Malaysia’s Sapura Energy Berhad has issued a termination notice to Yunneng Wind Power Co., Ltd. related to a contract for the transportation and installation of monopiles at the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Sapura Offshore Sdn Bhd, was awarded the contr
The Netherlands-based foundation manufacturer Sif Group has completed the first several monopiles for the world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction – the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank in the UK. Sif manufactured the monopiles at its factory on Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam. The monopiles pr
Julietta D, the bulk carrier that had drifted in the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm offshore the Netherlands for several hours on Monday, 31 January, collided with one of the wind turbine monopile foundations at the 1.5 GW wind farm. A reconnaissance flight carried out on Tuesday, 1 February, has rev
