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  • Empire Wind 1 Cleared to Start Construction

    23 February 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for Equinor’s Empire Wind offshore wind project in New York, the US. With this approval secured, the developer is planning to start the construction of Empire Wind 1 later this year. The approved plan includes the construction and operation […]

  • Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm Generates First Electricity (UK)

    19 August 2011
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall yesterday evening generated the first electricity from its wind farm off Barrow-in-Furness with Barrow’s Mayor hailing the achievement as an endorsement of Cumbria’s low carbon energy strategy. Vattenfall started offshore construction of the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm in 2010 and a little over a year later has exported power to the National Grid for […]

  • Scottish Government Extends Scope of Energy Plan to 200 Nautical Miles

    11 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D

      The Scottish Government will undertake a scoping exercise to identify further areas of search for the development of offshore wind energy in Scottish Territorial Waters, and out to the 200 nautical mile limit. Since the publication of the Blue seas, Green energy report in March, the Scottish Government has been working closely with The […]

  • Welsh Port Readying for Floating Wind by Simulating In-Port Manoeuvring Ops

    31 January 2023
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, R&D

    With 4 GW of floating wind capacity to soon be awarded in the Celtic Sea, and more planned to come after that, ports in the UK are preparing to accommodate the construction and maintenance operations for the emerging industry. At Pembroke Port, a project simulating the processes of manoeuvring floating wind turbines into and out […]

  • Geoquip Marine Responds to Jones Act Breach Allegations

    17 November 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Vessels

    Offshore geotechnical engineering and drilling company Geoquip Marine has issued its response to allegations made by the American Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA) that the company’s integrated geotechnical survey vessel (IGSV) Geoquip Saentis is working in contravention of the Jones Act.

  • OMM awarded contracts for Barrow and Burbo Bank

    20 May 2010

    BOWind has awarded the survey inspection and remedial works contract for the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm export cable to subsea cable specialists, Offshore Marine Management (OMM). OMM has also been awarded the cable surveys contract for Burbo Bank by developer DONG Energy. The Barrow work will include the subsea inspection of the entire 27km export […]

  • BOW Terminal: A heavy-lift port

    11 February 2014

    The offshore wind energy industry is growing and several European ports have prepared, or are preparing, to provide the necessary logistics and storage services and facilities related to different construction & installation, O&M, and production phases of this industry. The wind farms are getting larger and moving into deeper waters further offshore resulting in bigger […]

  • Total and Simply Blue Energy Reveal Celtic Sea Floating Wind Plan

    19 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Total and Simply Blue Energy have established a partnership to develop floating offshore wind projects in the Welsh waters of the Celtic Sea. The newly established joint venture, Blue Gem Wind, will focus on developing some of the first floating offshore wind projects with pre-commercial size, Green Giraffe, Simply Blue Energy’s sole financial advisor for […]

  • Jumbo to Equip Its Heavy-Lift Vessels with Huisman’s DDS System

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Jumbo Shipping has recently decided to award Huisman a contract for the design and construction of the 2nd Deepwater Deployment System (DDS). This system will be integrated on Jumbo’s DP2 heavy-lift vessel Jumbo Javelin, which is now carrying out the installation of wind turbine transition pieces at the Butendiek offshore wind farm. The integration of the the DDS system […]

  • Busy Days for BWS at China Wind Power Exhibition

    24 October 2013

    It was a busy couple of days for four delegates from Blue Water who currently attended the China Wind Power 2013 Exhibition held in Beijing from 16-18 October. “Through many years, we have handled wind projects, and they have all been different from each other as there is no universal solution for transport and logistics […]

  • Harland and Wolff Tests Its Equipment

    23 May 2014

    Harland and Wolff have performed the World’s heaviest single point WaterLoad test at the shipyard facility in Belfast, United Kingdom. The massive Samson gantry crane lifted 774 tonne load in order to certify Harland and Wolff’s latest spreader beam arrangement. The spreader beam has been a strategic investment to support the company’s handling capability for […]

  • ABPmer Leads Three Studies for Marine Scotland

    22 November 2011

    ABPmer has recently been appointed to lead three studies for Marine Scotland under a Scottish Government Framework contract. Following on from an earlier commission to prepare a Habitats Regulations Appraisal (HRA) for the draft plan for offshore wind energy in Scottish territorial waters, ABPmer have now been commissioned to prepare a similar HRA to support […]

  • The Crown Estate Details Round 4 Plans as Offshore Wind Appetite Grows

    16 November 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The Crown Estate has provided further details on plans for a new offshore wind seabed leasing round in the UK, including proposed locations to be offered for new seabed rights, and a likely increase in capacity from 6GW to 7GW.

  • AvenHexicon’s Floating Wind Projects in Italy Moving Through Public Consultation Process

    2 September 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    After the 1.2 GW floating wind project, proposed to be built by Hexicon and Avapa Energy in the Strait of Sicily, was published for public consultation, Hexicon revealed it had applied for maritime concessions for five floating offshore wind farms in Italy through the joint venture with Avapa. The joint venture applied for a 30-year concession […]

  • EMO Sells Windea CTV Pair

    28 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) has sold its crew transfer vessels (CTVs) Windea One and Windea Two to undisclosed clients. Windea One was handed over to its new owner at the end of September and will in the future be used as a supply vessel in Russian waters off Murmansk. Its sister vessel Windea Two was […]

  • KCI’S DOUBLE SLIP JOINT

    8 June 2015

    Grouting or bolting of the connection between monopile and transition piece belong to the past with the introduction of Dutch engineering company KCI’s Double Slip Joint. KCI is completely convinced about this after completing intensive research. The company introduced their new concept at the EWEA OFFSHORE event in Copenhagen last month where it attracted a […]

  • Asso.subsea to Install Export Cable for Ostwind 3

    9 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Hellenic Cables has signed a contract with Asso.subsea for the transportation, installation, and protection of the 220 kV submarine export cable that will connect 50Hertz’s own transformer platform at the Windanker wind farm in the Baltic Sea to the national grid as part of the Ostwind 3 grid connection system. The overall system will consist […]

  • UK: Partrac Completes 2nd Year of Surveys for SSE

    18 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Partrac Ltd were awarded the framework contract by SSE Renewables to provide metocean survey services in support of wave and tidal energy developments in the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters, following the award of Agreement for Leases by The Crown Estate in 2010. Now approaching the second year of survey, the Partrac Marine team have […]

  • ‘Self-Orienting’ Floating Wind Turbine Prototype Christened

    26 November 2021
    R&D, Technology

    X1 Wind has christened its PivotBuoy ‘downwind’ floating offshore wind turbine prototype at the Port of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. The X30 prototype will be installed at the Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (PLOCAN) test site in the coming weeks, once the placement of the dynamic cable that will connect the prototype to the test […]

  • First Offshore Wind Research Buoys Deployed Off US West Coast

    13 October 2020
    R&D

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office has deployed two offshore wind research buoys off the coast of California. The buoys come as part of the research funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to gather data to support decisions on potential leasing of wind energy sites offshore California. Managed by […]

  • Taiwan Pushes West Coast Wind Farms Further Offshore

    29 December 2016
    Authorities, Environment, R&D

    Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has issued a set of regulations to minimise the impact of offshore wind projects on local fauna, according to local media. The new regulations, set out in a document titled “Offshore Wind Power Development”, stipulate that the wind farms off the west coast of Taiwan must be located at least 1,000 meters […]

  • Van Oord, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock to Rock Empire Wind Seabed

    4 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor and BP have selected a consortium between Van Oord and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) for subsea rock installation works for their Empire Wind 1 and Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farms in New York. The consortium plans to start operations at the offshore wind farm sites in the mid-2020s, with Van Oord […]

  • Floating Wind Technology Acceleration Competition Opens

    11 September 2019
    R&D, Technology

    The Floating Wind Joint Industry Project (JIP) has launched the Floating Wind Technology Acceleration Competition to accelerate the development and commercialisation of floating wind. The Carbon Trust, the project lead, together with 14 offshore wind developers represented by the Floating Wind JIP, will select the best ideas with a particular emphasis on mooring systems and […]

  • Tocardo to Exhibit at Hannover Messe

    2 April 2014

    Tocardo Tidal Turbines, Dutch producer of tidal and free-flow water turbines, will exhibit its expertise at the Hannover Messe from April 6 to 11. Invited by Top Sector Energy and FME, Tocardo will, together with nine other clean energy companies, participate in the themed exhibition entitled Holland: Sustainable Urban Delta in Hall 16. The exhibition […]

  • Nexans Trenching First Beatrice Export Cable

    9 October 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Nexans has started jetting/trenching of the installed section of the first Beatrice offshore wind farm export cable (EC1.1) from around 2km North of the beach at Portgordon.

  • Germany: BARD-Group Completes Realignment of Management Team

    13 September 2011
    Operations & Maintenance

      BARD, Germany’s offshore pioneer seated in Emden, has completed the realignment of the management team which began early 2011. Olaf Struck (46) will join Bernd Ranneberg (50, CEO) and Manuel Althoff (47, CFO) from the 1st of October 2011 as new chief technical officer (CTO) of BARD Holding GmbH. Olaf Struck is a versed […]