SSEN Transmission has renewed its partnership with BAM and Siemens Energy regarding the delivery of onshore transmission infrastructure schemes. BAM and Siemens Energy will support SSEN Transmission in delivering onshore transmission infrastructure schemes, working to help deliver the substations th
Following conversion, DEME Group’s subsidiary G-tec has welcomed a new survey vessel that can completely run on biofuel to its fleet. The survey vessel Karina is equipped with a hull-mounted dual-head multibeam, side scan sonar, sub-bottom profilers, magnetometers and gradiometers frames to serve va
Fugro has extended its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PTSC Geos & Subesa Services (PTSC G&S) to provide site characterization services to support Vietnam’s offshore wind sector. Under the two-year agreement, Fugro’s full range of marine site characterization services will be deployed with PT
Norway’s VARD has awarded Dutch Huisman with a contract to deliver two subsea cranes for a highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel that it is building for what it says is a leading Japanese construction company. Huisman will deliver a full electric 250mt hybrid boom subsea c
Boskalis’s offshore energy division saw 50% of its revenue coming from offshore wind in 2023, according to annual results the Dutch dredging and offshore construction specialist released on March 7. Company-wide, Boskalis reported a 20% increase in revenue and a 150% higher net profit than in 2022.
The first geotechnical seabed surveys for TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables’ 500 MW Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm in Scotland have been completed. Phase two of the geotechnical works is expected to commence later this year and should take around two weeks to complete. Seagreen 1A lies adjacent to th
France-headquartered Nexans has completed the offshore export cable pull-ins for both offshore substation platforms at the 882 MW Moray West wind farm, located in the Moray Firth in the northeast of Scotland. The cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora took advantage of a recent period of favorable weathe
Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric Industries has placed a multi-million-pound order for cable storage carousels for its power cable factory in Scotland. THREE60 Energy reported it had signed a contract with Sumitomo to design and deliver cable storage carousels for the power cable factory in Nig
Exail’s DriX uncrewed surface vessel (USV) has finished what is said to be a first-of-its-kind fisheries research survey for assessment of the impact on biomass and fish stock before, during, and after wind farm construction. The DriX USV performed the survey offshore Massachusetts, Rhode Island, a
Following a retrofit campaign, TDI-Brooks’ new research vessel has arrived on the U.S. East Coast where it will perform offshore wind work. The RV Nautilus, formerly known as Nautical Geo, reached the shores of the East Coast on March 3 after undergoing a six-month retrofit in Las Palmas. The 75-met
Equinor and Polenergia have awarded RockWave a contract for subsurface data reprocessing for the 1,560 MW Bałtyk 1 offshore wind farm in Poland. The contract scope involves the reprocessing of sparker ultra-high resolution seismic (UHRS) data to create an optimized subsurface image. The new data wil
The developers of the 1.4 GW Cenos floating offshore wind project in Scotland are set to run a nearshore survey campaign in March to revalidate data collected in 2017 by NorthConnect, an interconnector project whose infrastructure Cenos planned to use to connect to the grid. Starting on 11 March, th
Tekmar Group has reported improved financial performance for the 2023 financial year with a revenue of £39.9 million, compared to £30.2 million in FY22. Deemed a pivotal year that saw instability in the offshore wind market, Tekmar said it had stabilized the business in 2023. Tekmar saw an adjusted
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has signed a preferred supply agreement with LS Cable for the supply of offshore and onshore cables to Feng Miao 1, the company’s third offshore wind project in Taiwan. Under the agreement, Korea-based LS Cable will supply offshore export cables, inter-array
