German offshore wind services provider WINDEA Offshore and marine data acquisition company Subsea Europe Services have entered a strategic sales partnership to provide autonomous surveying for the offshore wind industry. The two companies plan to deliver hydrographic survey and underwater inspection
Danish national transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has appointed MacArtney Offshore Wind Solutions to provide the storage and handling system for spare cable for the Viking Link that will connect Denmark and Great Britain. Energinet entrusted MacArtney with supplying a comprehensive storag
Cable-laying operations for the inter-array cables are about to begin at the 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US. The work, carried by Jan De Nul’s vessel Isaac Newton, will begin with array cable lines five and six. The vessel will remain on-site until early October, said Vineyard W
Lithuanian liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operator Klaipedos Nafta (KN) has announced that Norwegian capital company Hoegh LNG Klaipėda will serve as a technical operator for the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Independence of the Klaipėda terminal for a minimum of five years.
The seabed surveys have been completed for this year in the areas of Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) and Utsira Nord offshore Norway. Over the past two years, seabed surveys have been carried out in the open areas of Southern North Sea II and Utsira Nord. The Utsira Nord surveys began in
A post-installation survey is set to soon commence at the Viking Link project in the North Sea after Prysmian completed the last section of the submarine cable for the UK-Denmark interconnector. The last section was laid and assembled 172 kilometers off the Danish coast in German and Dutch waters on
Two offshore survey campaigns have been completed for SSE Renewables’ Arklow Bank Wind Park II offshore wind farm in Ireland. The surveys took place over an eight-week period during July and August. According to SSE Renewables, the surveys were completed on schedule despite unsettled weather conditi
The University of Houston is developing an autonomous robot that will be able to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections at oil & gas projects. The SmartTouch technology, being developed by researchers at UH, consists of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) e
Boskalis has been awarded contracts by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted for the transportation and installation of the export and array cables for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in Poland, classifying the contract value as “large”, which for Boskalis means it is worth more than €300 millio
Swedish company CorPower Ocean has installed its first commercial-scale wave energy converter in northern Portugal, setting the course to making wave energy a bankable technology for mass deployment.
Offshore construction has started on RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea off the northeast coast of the UK. The offshore works are kicking off with the laying of the first section of high voltage direct current (HVDC) export cable which will be done by Prysm
Oscilla Power has completed two key preliminary steps in preparation for the launch of its Triton-C wave energy converter at the Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) in Hawaii.
A collaborative renewable subsea power project, run by Mocean Energy and Verlume, alongside Baker Hughes, Serica Energy and others, has completed an initial four-month test program and secured extension for further testing in the North Sea.
Slowly but surely the world’s first containership powered by green methanol is making its way from South Korea to its final destination of Copenhagen where it will be christened in September. The 2,100 TEU boxship, built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, has arrived in the Port of Rotterdam, the final stop
