Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy lift vessel Sleipnir has installed the second offshore substation jacket foundation at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm offshore the Netherlands. Located 22 kilometres off the Netherlands coast, the 2,852-tonne jacket will support TenneT’s 700 MW Hollandse Kust Zui
The loading of the pin-piles for the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farm has started at the Port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. The first of the 186 locally-manufactured pin-piles are being loaded onto Boskalis’s Bokalift 1 heavy-lift vessel. Boskalis and Hwa Chi Construction Co, through a joint venture
Fugro has completed the first phase of a two-year contract with Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind to build and manage a centralised, cloud-hosted Geo-data repository for the company’s lease development off the coast of New Jersey in the US. The web-based engagement platform was recently delivered and ut
Trenching support vessel Aethra was forced to leave the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm after the local fishermen protesting the project breached several safety protocols and verbally threatened the safety of the captain and the crew. The Aethra was deployed on the site when a large number of fishin
The Danish Energy Agency has paused the tendering procedure for the Hesselø offshore wind farm to allow more time for the analysis of the results of preliminary seabed studies. The tender was paused after the analysis of Energinet’s preliminary seabed surveys identified soft clay bottoms in large pa
A series of showcases about contracting opportunities for the Sofia offshore wind project in the UK is taking place in July. Van Oord, the EPCI contractor for the project’s foundations and inter-array cables, will hold its webinar on 6 July. The Dutch company will cover concrete structures, secondar
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind has marked the installation of its first offshore wind turbine outside China. The turbine in question was erected in Vietnam in the waters off the Soc Trang province. ”Goldwind’s Bac Lieu Phase III and Soc Trang Phase I offshore wind power projects in Vietn
The Danish Energy Agency has published the final tender conditions for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm – Thor. With the publication, all the basic elements of the tender are in place, and the bidders now have four months to prepare their final bids for the offshore wind farm. The deadline for s
Following the financial close on the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm, Vestas has secured a firm order for Parkwind’s first project in Germany, which will also be the first to use a new floating installation method to erect the wind turbines. Under the contract with Parkwind, Vestas will deliver 27
Vattenfall and BASF have agreed the sale of 49.5 per cent of Vattenfall’s Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Once fully commissioned in 2023, HKZ will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world and also the first one ever to be built without subsidies for the power
The survey of the seabed cable system and all of the turbine jacket foundations is about to start at the Ormonde offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea. The 18.5 meter survey vessel CWind Alliance will conduct the survey for approximately two months. Survey equipment to be used includes multi bean echo
All 21 wind turbines have been installed at Taiwan Power Company’s Changhua Phase 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Jan De Nul reported on 23 June that the company completed the installation of all the Hitachi 5.2 MW turbines for the project and installed all subsea cables. The 21st and final wind tur
Kustvind AB has initiated the licensing process for a 500 MW offshore wind farm proposed to be built in southern Sweden. The Kustvind wind farm, also known as Sydkustens Vind, is located approximately eight kilometres offshore the southern coast of Sweden. The project is expected to have a productio
Fugro is set to commence a geophysical survey at the Dogger Bank B offshore wind farm in the UK today, 23 June. Survey vessel Fugro Froneiter will be conducting the survey between 23 June and approximately 30 August. Operations will be continuous, 24 hours a day, with the vessel towing subsea sensor
