Siemens Gamesa has inaugurated the world’s first service accommodation transfer vessel (SATV) in Taiwan. The 35-metre Ventus Formosa will operate from Taichung. The vessel will support Siemens Gamesa’s full service agreement for the Formosa 1 offshore wind project. Penguin International built the SA
In this Guest Column, Stephen Bolton, Managing Director of Bibby Marine Services, shares his views with our readers. As an industry driving improved efficiency and effectiveness, it is my firm belief that we as service providers have a responsibility to provide information not only on what the equip
Global design firm Stantec has been selected to lead the environmental permitting and assessment for the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project in New York. A joint venture of Ørsted and the U.S. Eversource Energy is developing the project approximately 30 miles east of Montauk Point, off Long Island. “
Van Oord has installed the final of the 77 monopile foundations on the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Van Oord’s installation vessel Aeolus transported the monopile foundations from Sif’s terminal at Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam. The vessel then installed the
Pulse Structural Monitoring has won a contract to provide digital structural monitoring and insight services and equipment for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua offshore wind project in Taiwan. Pulse is in charge of providing the design, fabrication, yard installation and commissioning of the monitoring ins
Nauti-Craft and OFFCON have entered into a development and license agreement to introduce a new range of multi-purpose daughter craft for the offshore wind industry. OFFCON has established a company to build the new range of vessels, called Wallaby Boats GmbH. The German company secured exclusive ri
Innogy has sold and handed over its offshore installation vessel Seabreeze II and related equipment to SPIC Ronghe International Financial Leasing Co. Ltd. A corresponding agreement between innogy and the Hong Kong-based leasing company had previously been signed in February, the German energy compa
CWind and Dalby Offshore have signed a long-term agreement, under which CWind will add four new vessels to its fleet with immediate effect. The companies also agreed on an option for two additional vessels later in the year. CWind said it had already chartered some of the new vessels following a qui
Dutch offshore wind services provider Gould has secured contracts for work on the wind farms in the Borssele zone. Van Oord has selected Gould to act as their key logistic hub for the Borssele Ill and IV offshore wind farm. For this, Van Oord will make use of Gould’s offshore service base in Vlissin
Vestas will lay off around 400 employees on functions that do not directly support the wind turbine supplier’s 2020 deliveries.
The 288 MW EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea will be serviced from the Danish port of Klintholm on the island of Møn from August 2020, EnBW said. Until now, the company’s service team of up to 25 has travelled from Rostock to a hotel vessel close to the wind […]
The turbine components for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project have begun their journey from Denmark to North America. The components for the two 6 MW Siemens Gamesa turbines were loaded in Esbjerg, before the vessel embarked in mid-April on the approximately two-week transatlant
Rostock-based EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH has manufactured and delivered the first monopile foundations to be installed off the United States. EEW SPC built the two heavy monopile foundations and two transition pieces for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) demonstration project offsho
Heli Service International will provide a 12-passenger helicopter for isolation procedures at EWE’s offshore wind farms is Germany. EWE Offshore Service & Solutions (OSS) selected Heli Service on 16 April. The negotiations were held under an emergency procurement process and in addition to the tende
