Irish energy company ESB and Equinor will jointly develop a 1.4 GW Moneypoint floating offshore wind farm off the West Coast of Ireland. The Moneypoint wind farm will be developed off the coast of Counties Clare and Kerry in two phases. Once complete, the wind farm will be capable of powering more t
Bourbon Subsea Services will manage the transportation and installation of the 3.6 MW TetraSpar Demonstrator Floating Wind Turbine. This new turnkey stage, a part of Bourbon’s partnership with TetraSpar Demonstrator ApS, includes project management, engineering, installation, and offshore execution
Orient Cable has won a contract to provide dynamic cable for an offshore wind project in China which will connect a floating wind turbine to a fixed unit. Ningbo Orient (NBO) plans to use one 35 kV dynamic cable to connect the 5.5 MW floating wind turbine to the fixed-bottom turbine. The plan is to
London Marine Consultants (LMC) has secured a contract to perform the detailed design of the spar for the full-scale SeaTwirl 1 MW S2 floating wind turbine. SeaTwirl is a floating vertical axis wind turbine (VAWTT) with a tower placed on an underwater structure, which consists of a buoyancy componen
As announced recently, BW Ideol started trading on Euronext Growth Oslo today (18 March). Upon admission to trading on the stock market, BW Ideol has several shareholders, with BW Offshore controlling about 50 per cent of the shares and thus maintaining a significant influence over matters requiring
Sif Holding has finalised the takeover of KCI the engineers from Royal IHC, as announced in December 2020, when the companies inked the initial agreement for Sif’s acquisition of the Dutch engineering consultancy company. Financial details of the acquisition have been left undisclosed. KCI, which ba
Endiprev has carried out the installation test for the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire project, set to be the first commercial-scale wind farm installed in French waters. Endiprev France concluded the installation test in the Antwerp Port, during which the team investigated if the T1 and the transition piece f
Engineering, construction, and project management company Bechtel is partnering with Sweden’s Hexicon to demonstrate the technology for large-scale floating wind power generation projects off the coast of the UK. The initial partnership will draw on Bechtel’s engineering, construction, and project f
The private placement of new shares for BW Ideol has been completed ahead of the new company’s listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange in the coming days. A total of NOK 575 million (€ 57 million) in gross proceeds has been raised: NOK 500 million (€ 50 million) through the placement of new shares and [&
RWE has partnered with Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to study the potential for Scottish businesses to produce commercial-scale concrete foundations for floating wind projects. The study will identify key manufacturing and fabrication methodologies and constituent materials required to pr
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has inspected Dublin Offshore’s mooring load reduction device (LRD) and verified that the system is in compliance with the International Electrotechnical Commission’s technical specification (IEC TS) 62600-10. Dublin Offshore has been developing the passive L
BW Ideol, a company established after oil & gas services provider BW Offshore bought into the floating wind technology developer Ideol, has applied for admission to the Oslo Stock Exchange and is expected to start trading there around 18 March. Through a private placement of shares, for which a day-
CCCC – First Harbor Engineering Company has installed the first suction pile jacket at the Fujian Changle Waihai offshore wind project in China. CCCC installed the suction pile jacket on 21 February using SPT Offshore’s SAPS007S suction spread. The Netherlands-based SPT Offshore won a contract in Au
Aker Solutions has received the final ruling from an arbitration tribunal in Germany in the case concerning the Nordsee Ost offshore wind project for which Kværner, now part of Aker, delivered jacket foundations. “The ruling entitles Aker Solutions to receive a recoverable cash amount of approximate
