Heerema Marine Contractors is modifying cranes onboard Thialf to enable this world’s second-largest semi-submersible crane vessel to enter the Baltic Sea and work on the Arcadis Ost I offshore wind farm. Heerema Fabrication Group is fabricating the structures needed for the modification of Thialf’s
Dogger Bank Wind Farm has officially broken ground for its net-zero carbon Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Base at the Port of Tyne, the UK. At 3.6 GW, the Dogger Bank wind farm will become the biggest in the world when operational in 2026, and be capable of providing around 5 per cent of the UK’s
LS Cable & System and Jan De Nul have completed the first lot of submarine power cables for the Hollandse Kust Noord and West Alpha offshore wind projects in the Netherlands.
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd’s, a wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel FELS Ltd, has secured a contract from a renewable energy company for the construction of two offshore substation topsides worth around SGD 110 million (around EUR 71.6 million). Keppel O&M’s work scope comprises the engineering, procur
Finnish state-owned enterprise Metsähallitus is launching wind measurements for the proposed Korsnäs offshore wind farm. The wind measurements will be carried out in Maalahti and are part of the plans to build the offshore wind farm with a capacity of between 1.3 GW and 2 GW 15 kilometres off the we
A significant number of contract notices seeking services within the offshore wind industry has been issued over the past several weeks. The work required spans several European markets and covers offshore investigations, certification services, vessel services, offshore maintenance, electricity out
Vineyard Wind has broken ground for its 806 MW Vineyard Wind 1 project in Barnstable, Massachusetts, setting the US on a road to its first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, which is also the first such project in the Americas region. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on 18 November at Covell
Half of the total of 80 wind turbine foundations are now in place at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. The 80 foundations are being installed by DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Innovation, which put the first monopile in place in early May and had more than a quarter of the project’s fo
The transmission assets of the Rampion offshore wind farm in the UK have been sold to Transmission Capital Partners (TCP), a consortium comprising International Public Partnerships Limited, Amber Infrastructure Group, and Transmission Investment. The assets now owned by TCP comprise Rampion’s offsho
Shell has signed an agreement with the Irish blue economy developer Simply Blue Group to acquire a 51 per cent share of their Western Star venture which seeks to develop a floating wind farm off the Clare coast in Ireland. This follows a similar agreement between Shell and Simply Blue Group earlier
The jacket foundation for the Seagreen 1 offshore wind farm’s offshore substation is currently on its way to the project site in Scottish waters in the Firth of Forth, where the work on installing the structure is about to start. The jacket, which left Eversendai Offshore’s fabrication yard in Ras A
The Danish Energy Agency and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency have launched a public consultation on the content of the environmental impact report for the Jammerland Bay nearshore wind farm. Citizens, organisations, authorities, and others who may be affected by the project have the oppor
Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has secured a contract with DP Energy to carry out geophysical and geotechnical site characterization at the potential 1 GW Inis Ealga Marine Energy Park (IEMEP) floating offshore wind project in Ireland.
Baltic Power, the vehicle responsible for the construction of PKN ORLEN and Northland Power’s first offshore wind farm in Poland, is arranging another meeting for potential contractors interested in joining the supply chain for the project. PKN ORLEN and Northland Power are jointly developing the 1.
