Ventolines has selected Marine Coordination Services to supply a range of support personnel for the construction phase of the 382.7MW Windpark Fryslân offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. The arrangement will include the supply of QA, QC inspectors, auditors, and client representatives. “We are gl
Bladt has completed the second load out of transition pieces for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. According to the company, the second load out of the 26m tall transition pieces took place last week. Ørsted’s Borssele 1+2 will comprise 94 Siemens Gamesa 8MW turbines install
Staffing and recruitment specialist Bureau UK has secured a framework agreement to provide resourcing to support the quality assurance, quality control, and surveillance activities across the Triton Knoll offshore wind project. Bureau UK is sourcing engineers to undertake work around Quality and Pro
The East Anglia One offshore wind project has reached the halfway turbine installation milestone with the 51st Siemens Gamesa turbine put in place. DEME Group’s vessel Sea Installer completed the installation of 51 out od 102 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the project site 43km off the Suffolk coast
Equinor has signed an agreement with the Prysmian Group for the supply of inter-array cables for the Empire Wind offshore wind project in New York. Prysmian revealed that it is responsible for the design, supply and storage of approximately 150km of 66kV XLPE-insulated inter-array cables, which will
The Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind project has reached the halfway turbine installation point as 16 out of 32 units have been erected. Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Taillevent installed the 16 Senvion 6.2M152 turbines in the northeastern part of the project site offshore Germany, wit
China’s Zhongtian Technology [ZTT] has completed work on the grid connection between the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm and the BorWin3 DC grid connection system in the North Sea. In March 2017, TenneT tapped ZTT to carry out the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the 155kV HVAC co
Covestro has signed a ten-year corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) with Ørsted to buy the output of 100MW from the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind project in Germany. With the ten-year indexed fixed-price agreement, Germany-based Covestro will offtake 100MW of the project’s 900MW total capacit
EEW Offshore Structures (Britain) has carried out the final Test on Completion for Ørsted’s Borssele contract. The Teesside-based company was tasked with manufacturing and delivering a total of 35 transition pieces for the 752MW Borssele 1 + 2 wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. ALE Heavy Lift is prov
Danish rubber manufacturer RG Rom Gummi A/S has won a contract to carry out the vulcanization of neoprene on boat landing stubs for the Vattenfall’s Kriegers Flak offshore wind project. The 605MW Kriegers Flak will comprise 72 Siemens Gamesa 8MW turbines installed some 15-40 kilometres off the Danis
SAL Heavy Lift’s multi-purpose cargo ship Svenja has arrived at the Redcar Bulk Terminal, the UK, to pick up the third batch of transition pieces for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind project. Svenja is picking up six transition pieces, which were produced by EEW Offshore Structures Britain (OSB) and b
The 300MW CTGNE Yangjiang Shapa Phase 1 wind farm has started delivering electricity after the first wind turbines were connected to the Chinese grid, China Three Gorges said. CTGNE Yangjiang Shapa Phase 1 comprises 55 5.5MW wind turbines and is the Three Gorges Group’s first wind project off the Gu
Equinor and SSE have submitted an application to use bigger wind turbines on, and to remove the 1.2GW capacity cap from the Dogger Bank Teesside A offshore wind project. By submitting the application for a non-material change to the Dogger Bank Teesside A Development Consent Order (DCO), the develop
DEME Offshore has kicked off engineering activities for the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind project in Scotland as part of its EPCI contract for the inter-array and interconnector cables. DEME’s scope includes the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of the subsea cables for the 4
