Offshore Wind Innovation Center (OWIC) has launched Cable Centre Eemshaven (CCE), an initiative that focuses on all aspects of the cable installation and maintenance process, both onshore and offshore.
British oil and gas major BP is joining the recently established consortium between Statkraft and Aker Offshore Wind, which is preparing a bid to build an offshore wind farm in Norway. The consortium will propose to develop an offshore wind project in the Sørlige Nordsjø II (SN2) area, with a plan t
As the energy transition is unravelling, the industry is paving the way to net-zero by pushing for further emission cuts and new fuels and vessels.
Cable laying and burial works are currently underway at the Viking Link landfall in Lincolnshire, UK. The work covers the first campaign of 51 kilometers starting from the UK landfall at Boygrift. Prysmian PowerLink began the cable laying works on 10 May using Cable Enterprise, with work expected to
DEME has installed the first drilled XL monopile at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm offshore France. This is the first time this technique has been used to install an XL monopile on an offshore wind farm. Although the first monopile foundations had to be conventionally driven, 73 of the wind farm’s 80 X
Transmission system operator TenneT has issued contract notices related to offshore grid connection systems in the German North Sea. In one of the contract notices, TenneT is seeking geotechnical and geophysical survey services at the BalWin platform locations. The contract covers the execution of g
Belgian offshore wind developer Parkwind has awarded JDR with a contract to supply, test, and terminate 33kV subsea cables for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. The UK-based JDR will supply the 45 kilometres of 33kV array cable that will connect the wind farm’s 27 MHI Vestas V174-9.5M
A European transmission system operator is seeking Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (EPCI) services for offshore platforms. The scope of works includes the design, procurement, fabrication, transport and installation, and commissioning of offshore substations including the su
The U.S. Department of the Interior will assess potential opportunities to advance offshore wind development on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will publish a Request for Interest (RFI) in the Federal Register on Friday, 11 June to asses
Nexans and Ulstein Verft have held the naming ceremony for the newbuild DP3 cable laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the project progress has been steady and the vessel was delivered on time on 31 May, three years after the signing of the shipbuilding contract, Ulstein
A study has concluded that Bacton is ideally positioned to become a significant hub for clean, green energy in the road to net-zero by 2050.
Prysmian’s new cable laying vessel (CLV) Leonardo da Vinci has completed its first trip to open sea and is ready to begin sea trials. After completing the last outfitting phases, Leonardo da Vinci will undergo sea trials for approximately two weeks and will run three turns of tests. After draught re
The 45th wind turbine has been installed at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm site in the UK, bringing the installation on the 90-turbine project to a halfway mark. According to the latest update from the project, the 857 MW offshore wind farm remains on track to complete offshore construction by
The Fugro Synergy survey vessel is currently conducting a geotechnical survey in the Dogger Bank C array area and export cable route, while the vessel Wind of Pride is performing inspection works in the Dogger Bank A array area and the export cable routes for Dogger Bank A & B. According to the late
