A site located within Malta’s territorial waters has been identified as the potential location for the country’s first grid-connected floating solar project, Maltese Minister for Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli announced. A preliminary market consultation (PMC) has been launched to a
According to Erwin Coolen, Director of ECHT, we need Mariparks, which are offshore business areas, and multiuse to reach energy, food and nature transitions that are ongoing on the North Sea. Together with Nathalie Scheidegger, Project Leader Sustainable Blue Economy, Netherlands’ Ministry of Agricu
Taiwanese offshore geophysical and geotechnical investigation company PDE Offshore Corporation is carrying out the conversion of its new geotechnical vessel to service the local offshore wind market. The Geo Power geotechnical vessel is now under conversion work and will join the fleet in mid-2024 t
OX2 and Ingka Investments are expected to submit an application for another offshore wind-to-hydrogen project to the Swedish authorities, after the partners recently applied for a permit to build a similar project off the coast of Blekinge. The second energy hub combining offshore wind energy and gr
Norway-headquartered Deep Wind Offshore has entered into a collaboration with Hydepoint to explore offshore hydrogen production from offshore wind. EU has set a target of 200 million tons of hydrogen produced from renewable energy by 2030. The European Commission launched an action plan that could e
U.S.-headquartered TDI-Brooks has added a 2000-built research vessel to its fleet, which is currently on its way to kick off an offshore wind job after it had undergone a retrofit campaign. The R/V Nautilus, formerly known as Nautical Geo, is currently on its way to the U.S. East Coast to provide su
The export cable of the Rentel offshore wind farm is reported to have been damaged. However, the offshore wind farm keeps feeding electricity into the Belgian grid as the offshore power hub, Modular Offshore Grid (MOG), has taken over. Elia, the operator of Belgium’s MOG, says that the cable from th
Fugro has expanded its uncrewed surface vessel (USV) fleet with the addition of a new Blue Essence vessel which has received the highest level of UK coastguard approval. Fugro Vaquita has joined Fugro’s 12-meter Blue Essence USV fleet and has earned Category 0 approval from the UK Maritime Coastguar
Ørsted and Jan De Nul Group have signed the offshore export cable installation contract for the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. This is the first offshore HVDC installation contract awarded by Ørsted in the UK, the company said. Belgium-headquartered Jan De Nul Group will be responsib
The Correll Group has secured a contract with Hellenic Cables for the termination and testing of inter-array cables on the wind turbine generators and offshore substation for the 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in the US. The Revolution Wind offshore wind farm is being developed by a joint
Ulstein Verft and Nexans have cut the first steel for Nexans’ new cable-laying vessel (CLV), four months after signing the shipbuilding contract. On January 19, on the day four months after signing the shipbuilding contract, Nexans Marine Operations and Ulstein Verft celebrated the start of the cons
UTEC, a geo-services brand in Acteon’s Data and Robotics division, has been awarded a contract by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) to provide subsea balance of plant operations and maintenance (O&M) services to the German Butendiek offshore wind farm. Under the three-year contract, Acteon will
Following the delivery of equipment for Nexans Aurora, Ulstein Verft has awarded Red Rock with another contract to provide an upgraded crane package for Nexans’ new cable-lay vessel (CLV). The new CLV will have a deck capacity of 10.000t of cable, an under-deck capacity of 3.500t cable, and will be
Jörg Singer, chairman of German offshore wind-to-hydrogen initiative AquaVentus has called for a timely tender for the expansion of offshore electrolysis, saying that the imminent start of the auction for the Noth Sea region SEN-1, a 100 km2 area in the North Sea designated for hydrogen production,
