Norwegian Offshore Rental (NOR) is entering the Asia-Pacific (APAC) market through the acquisition of Clockwise Subsea, a provider of rental and sale of marine equipment to the civil, marine, renewable and oil & gas sectors. Established in 2017, Clockwise Subsea is based in Singapore, Malaysia and I
Vattenfall and BASF have signed contracts with EEW Special Pipe Constructions (EEW SPC) and CS Wind Offshore for component supply and with DEME and Jan De Nul for installation services for the Nordlicht 1 and Nordlicht 2 offshore wind farms in Germany. Germany’s EEW SPC will manufacture 112 monopile
Norway-based energy data and intelligence company TGS has secured another contract for offshore wind site characterization on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). To remind, TGS reported earlier this week it was set to kick off offshore wind site characterization in the UK in the first quarter of 2025 u
Norway-headquartered DeepOcean has been awarded a subsea survey contract for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind projects in Poland, which are jointly developed by Equinor and Polenergia. Under the contract, DeepOcean will carry out geophysical seabed surveys of the export and inter-array cable
Poland’s Tele-Fonika Kable (TFK) and the Industrial Development Agency (ARP) have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on the construction of a cable laying vessel (CLV) for the installation and maintenance of subsea cables in offshore wind farms, mainly in the Baltic Sea. On January 28, the two
Norway-based energy data and intelligence company TGS has secured a contract for offshore wind site characterization on the UK continental shelf for a repeat client. According to TGS, the project is set to last around 60 days and will begin in the first quarter of 2025. The Ramform Vanguard will be
Tekmar Group has been awarded a contract for the delivery of its cable protection system (CPS) and associated ancillaries for a UK-based offshore wind project. The contract is valued in the region of £5 million (approximately €6 million). The UK-based company will be responsible for the design and s
Ulstein Design & Solutions has secured what it says is its largest-ever aftermarket design contract for a cable-laying vessel (CLV), owned by the Taiwanese Dong Fang Offshore (DFO). The contract for the Orient Adventurer, previously known as Polar Onyx, includes both basic design and engineering pro
Prysmian has informed local authorities in Somerset, Massachusetts, about the company’s decision not to move forward with the factory for offshore wind power cables that was planned to be built at Brayton Point on a site that previously housed a coal-fired power plant which was shut down in 2017. Ac
China’s first dedicated long-range heavy subsea cable transport barge has completed its inaugural mission at an offshore wind project and will undergo maintenance before embarking on a new mission. Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable launched the barge named Dongfang Haigong 07 (DFHG 07) in
Belfast Harbour, Northern Ireland’s principal maritime gateway and logistics hub, has unveiled a new strategy setting out a program to invest £313 million (approximately $387 million) in capital projects across the port and Harbour Estate over the next five years.
SSEN Transmission has entered into a capacity reservation agreement (CRA) with a consortium of Sumitomo Electric Industries and Van Oord for the supply and installation of a second 525 kV HVDC cable link between Shetland and the Scottish mainland, known as the Shetland 2 HVDC Link. The cable for the
Ireland-based XOCEAN has completed the geophysical survey along the 420-kilometer cable route for the proposed 3.6 GW Ossian floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. The survey, conducted using uncrewed survey vessels (USVs), took place over a span of 13 months, in water depths ranging from the shor
Innovation in wind energy has been one of the main pillars driving the upscale of the sector, enabling better components, larger and stronger turbines, faster and more cost-effective logistics, but what about its integration into tenders? Innovative approaches in tender designs can have a major impa
