France’s GTT has won an order from Russia’s Zvezda shipyard for the tank design of five ARC7 ice-breaking LNG carriers. The LNG containment specialist said Zvezda awarded the deal at the end of June on behalf of a Russian shipowner. This represents the first order following the technical assistance
The Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) offshore wind farm is now fully commissioned. As of 30 June 30, all 32 Senvion 6.33 MW turbines have been spinning and the project was thus completed exactly two years after the start of construction. The inauguration of the 200 MW offshore wind farm, located
The termination and testing of the export and array cables at the Windfloat Atlantic project has been completed, JDR Cable Systems said via social media. The third and final floating wind turbine was towed to the project site at the end of May, with connection to mooring and electrical lines then le
Van Oord has awarded Bauer Spezialtiefbau with a contract for piling works at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France. The German company will install 190 bored piles at 62 locations for three-legged jackets, as well as one substation location consisting of a four-legged jacket foundation.
The final phase of East Anglia One has started to receive payments under the project’s Contract for Difference (CfD), thus passing the milestone of Operational Conditions Precedent (OCP) to officially start generating electricity under the CfD scheme. The final, third phase of East Anglia One has an
Italian wind developer 7 Seas Med S.r.l. has requested a 30-year maritime state concession to develop a 250 MW floating offshore wind farm in the Sicilian Channel. According to the application filed with Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport – Trapani Port Authority, 7 Seas Med S.r.l. pla
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued a tender seeking geophysical and hydrographic monitoring for the geological preliminary investigations at three offshore wind zones. The tender is divided into two lots, including monitoring of geophysical surveys for 2020, 2021 and
Denmark is accelerating the tendering procedure for the Hesselø offshore wind farm to allow for the commissioning of the project one year earlier than initially planned. Located in Kattegatt, Hesselø is the second of the three offshore wind farms proposed in the Energy Agreement 2018, the first bein
Equinor has started conducting wind measurements to investigate the possibility of developing and constructing an 800 MW floating offshore wind project in South Korea. Two floating wind speed measurement installations using LiDAR technology have been deployed in the East Sea from Ulsan to conduct me
Germany-based TGE Gas Engineering has secured a contract from Flogas Britain for the conversion of the Avonmouth LNG facility into an LPG terminal. National Grid closed the storage facility back in April 2016 as it was approaching the end of its technical life. The terminal was previously ensuring s
Delfin LNG, the company behind the floating export development in the Gulf of Mexico, is struggling to secure offtake deals for its 13 mtpa project. The unit of Delfin Midstream has last year sought and won a 1-year extension from US FERC to build the project’s onshore facilities. It also pushed its
Subsea 7 said it has secured a ‘sizeable’ contract with an undisclosed client for work in the Gulf of Mexico. For the company, a sizeable contract is between $50 million and $150 million. The work scope includes engineering, procurement, construction and installation of subsea pipelines. It also inc
Waves Group has begun providing marine warranty surveyor (MWS) services for the Tra Vinh nearshore wind farm in Vietnam. Waves Group is providing the services for the installation of foundations, infield cables and turbines. The contract commenced in June and will continue until May 2021. The projec
Ireland needs to install 1 GW of offshore wind energy capacity by 2025 if it is to meet the new Irish government’s target of 5GW of installed offshore wind by 2030, SSE Renewables said. Paul Cooley, Director of Capital Projects at SSE Renewables, told the Energy Ireland ‘Offshore Energy Conference’
