Dolphyn Hydrogen, Celtic Sea Power, ORE Catapult and Wales and West Utilities have secured funding to deliver the Milford Haven: Hydrogen Kingdom (MH:HK) project.
Geotechnical survey work is set to start this month at the West of Orkney Windfarm site offshore Scotland. The survey to ascertain sub-seabed characteristics at the project site will be carried out by Geo using the survey vessel Connector, starting on or around August 30. The campaign will take appr
Korean company LS Marine Solution and Taiwan’s Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which will see LS Marine chartering a service operations vessel (SOV) from DFO and participating in offshore wind project bidding in South Korea. According to LS Marine Solut
N-Sea Group’s recently launched dedicated subsea cable repair and installation vessel has completed its first cable replacement project and is carrying out another one for the same client. N-Sea and its partner Neptune Marine Service converted the anchored barge NP-459 into a dedicated cable repair
The Crown Estate has invited proposals from the pre-qualified bidders in the Round 5 seabed leasing process which will award up to 4.5 GW of floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea. Around the same time, National Grid ESO issued a recommended network design to connect the upcoming floating wind far
The European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER) is preparing detailed recommendations on the integration of non-price criteria in offshore renewable energy tenders.
UK energy market regulator Ofgem has selected what is set to become Great Britain’s longest-ever subsea connection as the first project to proceed under its fast-track process and to receive a £3.4 billion funding package. Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is the first of 26 projects to complete the fast-
Swedish floating wind turbine developer SeaTwirl has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with UK-based oil and gas operator Serica Energy, under which the two companies will explore decarbonizing Serica Energy’s offshore assets. With the MoU, the two companies plan to work together on identif
A multibeam echosounder (MBES) geophysical survey of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind site, using several uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), is scheduled to start on August 13. According to information in the project’s Notice to Mariners, XOCEAN will deploy multiple USVs to survey the wind turbine arra
Heerema Marine Contractors has completed the installation of a gas platform in the North Sea that is set to be powered by offshore wind as part of a project operated by Dutch exploration and production player ONE-Dyas. Following the discovery of the N05-A field in August 2017, ONE-Dyas secured the f
CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has contracted Fores Engineering, a subsidiary of the Rosetti Marino Group, to assemble the 2.5 MW offshore electrolyzer that Elogen will deliver for the now-operational Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Fores Eng
Fugro is set to soon deploy its autonomous uncrewed surface vessel (USV) Fugro Vaquita at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland. The USV, which Fugro took delivery of at the beginning of this year, will conduct a non-intrusive uncrewed survey campaign at several wind locations. According to a
Fugro has completed four years of continuous survey operations for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind in New York and New Jersey, where the company was supporting the site assessment for five offshore wind projects across three lease areas. According to Fugro, a new data collection and management approac
Vard has signed a contract for an energy construction vessel (ECV) with Wind Energy Construction, a Norwegian company partly owned by the founders and owners of Norwind Offshore. According to the two companies, this is a whole new vessel category, developed jointly by Vard and Norwind Offshore. Unde
