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
An offshore subsea construction vessel (OSCV) that Norwegian shipbuilder Vard is building for Taiwan-based Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) has been launched in Romania and will now go to Norway for final outfitting. The 121.3-metre-long vessel of Vard 3 39 design is said to be a highly versatile platform d
TenneT Netherlands has selected compatriot survey company Deep to perform annual offshore cable integrity surveys between 2026 and 2029. Deep announced today, 31 August, that it would use hydrographic and geophysical techniques to determine the level of seabed cover above the cables, identify object
Heerema Fabrication Group has completed the first structural element for the jacket foundation for TenneT’s 2 GW IJmuiden Ver Beta transformer platform at its yard in Vlissingen. During the first so-called roll-up, the 1,700-tonne steel element was lifted from a horizontal position into a controlled
Trianel Windpark Borkum I (TWB I) has prequalified around 70 MW of capacity for Germany’s balancing energy market and began supplying negative secondary control reserve in July 2026. The marketing of the balancing capacity started on 22 July, allowing the offshore wind farm to provide an additional
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has granted Ventyr, a consortium of JERA Nex BP and Ingka Investments, a twelve-month extension of the deadline for submitting a license application for the Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) project, Norway’s first commercial offshore wind farm. Ventyr submi
Jan De Nul has installed all 23 foundation elements for the Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first artificial energy island, being built 45 kilometres off the Belgian coast. The project is now entering the next phase of construction, according to the company. Developed by Belgium grid operator
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution and Panstar Robotics, established by the Korea Institute of Robotics & Technology Convergence (KIRO), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) that would be deployed domestically, in an effort to reduce
