Van Oord’s next-generation green cable-laying vessel Calypso has been launched at VARD’s Tulcea shipyard in Romania. Van Oord laid the keel for its new 130-metre cable-laying vessel in December last year. The Dutch company placed an order with VARD for Calypso a year before the keel laying ceremony
The original article published on 14 October has been updated following the news that BP has qualified as an eligible bidder for the first offshore wind lease sale in California. BP is advertising a new opening in its offshore wind business, this time looking for the Head of Floating Offshore Wind,
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold an offshore wind lease sale in California on 6 December. This will be the first-ever offshore wind lease sale on the U.S. Pacific coast and the first-ever through which the country will support commercial-scale floating wind farms. On 6 Dec
Semco Maritime and SeaRenergy have secured a five-year service contract with TenneT for offshore grid connection systems and offshore substations in Germany and the Netherlands. The consortium, comprised of Semco Maritime and SeaRenergy, will be responsible for mechanical and electro-technical integ
Blue economy solutions provider Sustainable Marine has sold its anchoring and mooring business Swift Anchors to Aquos, a subsidiary of its largest shareholder and long-standing partner Schottel.
South Korean cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has completed official certification for its 525 kV cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system. According to the company, the long-term reliability (pre-qualification) test of the HVDC submarine and underground cables
The countries pursuing net-zero goals are grappling with surging prices while also trying to find ways to keep on track with the green energy infrastructure projects.
Offshore wind capacity could grow 56-fold until 2050, driven by a growing need for decarbonisation and energy security, and decreasing costs. Regarding the latter, bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind levelised costs of energy (LCoE) are forecast to drop by 39 per cent and 84 per cent, respective
Marine Offshore Renewable Energy Lab (MOREnergy) from Politecnico di Torino has launched its new open access web platform, featuring wind and wave energy data for offshore renewable energy projects in Europe.
The heightened focus on energy security and the rising cost of energy is reinforcing the difference in decarbonization speed between Europe and the rest of the world, according to the sixth edition of DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook.
Metsähallitus, Finalnd’s administrator of state-owned land and water areas, will soon wrap up surveys of underwater flora and fauna off the coast of Korsnäs, which are part of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a gigawatt-scale offshore wind farm. The work, being performed by the Finnish
Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has proposed to suspend processing offshore wind survey applications until existing regulatory and technical issues are solved. The proposal comes shortly after the Ministry recommended an overhaul of its administrative system, includin
Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the developer of the Dolphyn technology, has awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to Principle Power for a 10 MW floating wind-to-hydrogen demonstration project in Scotland. The ERM Dolphyn concept employs a modular design integrating elect
A geotechnical site investigation campaign is set to begin at the proposed North Irish Sea Array (NISA) wind farm area offshore Ireland. The campaign will involve the deployment of seabed borehole drilling and Cone Penetration Test (CPT) equipment from a survey vessel at specific locations within th
