German company EWE, through Offshore-Windpark Riffgat GmbH, has launched a tender for helicopter services to support planned maintenance and unplanned repair and troubleshooting work at the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The tender is divided into four lots, covering different h
ABS and Japan Blue Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on strategic studies for a floating wind pilot in Brazil.
Norway’s energy company Equinor has awarded Proserv with a contract for the deployment of cable monitoring technology at the 402 MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. Proserv’s ECG Business Unit will deploy its advanced monitoring technology to provide continuous visibility of cable and terminati
Nadara, the developer of the Bellrock floating wind farm in Scotland, has confirmed the project’s landfall location and submitted a Scoping Report and Habitats Regulations Appraisal (HRA) Screening Report for the project’s offshore transmission infrastructure to the Marine Directorate, with a plan t
The Tersan Shipyard in Türkiye has laid the keel for the cable-laying vessel (CLV) it is constructing for South Korean subsea cable installation company LS Marine Solution. LS Marine Solution and the shipyard signed a contract for the construction of the vessel in June 2025, followed by the start of
Jan De Nul’s extra-large cable-laying vessel (CLV) Fleeming Jenkin has started sea trials, soon to be followed by its twin, William Thomson. Jan De Nul placed an order for Fleeming Jenkin at China’s CMHI Haimen shipyard in October 2023, followed by an order for William Thomson in May the following y
German company EWE, through Offshore-Windpark Riffgat GmbH, has launched a tender for helicopter services to support planned maintenance and unplanned repair and troubleshooting work at the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The tender is divided into four lots, covering different h
BW Ideol’s 2 MW Floatgen floating wind turbine has been in operation for eight years at the SEM-REV offshore test site off Le Croisic, France, with cumulative electricity production now exceeding 40 GWh. The turbine, installed on BW Ideol’s concrete Damping Pool floating foundation, entered operatio
Stillstrom by Maersk has completed a trial of an automated cable control system for its offshore charging technology using a vessel operating on dynamic positioning (DP). According to the company, this removes a key operational barrier to charging hybrid and electric support vessels at offshore wind
This article comprises round-by-round updates from the New York Bight lease sale’s second and third day, and a link to Day 1 updates. For the news on the auction results, go to the news below: Round 63: The asking price for the biggest site has now climbed to USD 1.1 billion with one bidder in, [&he
This is an article following Day 1 updates of the New York Bight offshore wind lease sale. To read the updates from Day 2 and Day 3, or news on the final results of the lease sale, go to the articles below: The biggest offshore wind lease sale ever organised in the US is resuming […]
By: Jason Deign, for New Energy Update The US offshore wind sector ended 2017 on a slightly ironic note. Plans for Cape Wind, which was supposed to have been the country’s first offshore wind farm, were finally shuttered after a long period of uncertainty.[1] But prospects for the rest of the market
The concept of using vessels as hotels, or floatels, accommodation vessels, or recently, SOVs, or whatever name you give them, has been available in the market for a while. With some of the current and more future projects being built further at sea in harsher sea states this concept is now gaining
