Edinburgh-headquartered Flotation Energy and London-based Harbour Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on assessing opportunities for powering oil and gas assets in the North Sea with floating offshore wind energy.
TenneT Netherlands has selected compatriot survey company Deep to perform annual offshore cable integrity surveys between 2026 and 2029. Deep announced today, August 31, that it would use hydrographic and geophysical techniques to determine the level of seabed cover above the cables, identify object
Encomara’s Squid connection system for floating offshore wind has reached Technology Readiness Level 7/8 following inshore trials at Ardersier Port in Scotland, with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) recognizing the technology as ready for commercial manufacture at scale.
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has launched a tender for preliminary geophysical investigation of offshore wind sites in Zones 3 and 4 of the German North Sea exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The contract, covering work in 2027 and 2028, will enable collecting seabed and subs
Tekmar Group has been awarded a contract valued at around €1 million to deliver concrete protection solutions for an offshore wind project. The company did not disclose the name of the project or its client, but it said that its contract was with an existing customer, which is “a leading submarine c
OEG has secured a contract to provide a subsea corrosion protection system for the 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, developed by Skyborn Renewables. The company will supply an Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) system for the wind turbine foundations and is re
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started operating a 16 MW floating wind platform in the South China Sea, with the unit now supplying electricity to the Lufeng oilfield grid, according to Chinese media.
China’s ZTT Submarine Cable & System has launched Lan Hai Ling Hang, a new self-propelled cable-laying vessel (CLV) for offshore wind and subsea power interconnection cabling work. According to the company, the vessel is equipped with a 16,000-ton cable carousel, a DP2 dynamic positioning system and
Vattenfall has launched a tender seeking contractors to provide remotely operated vehicle (ROV) inspections and seabed survey services across its offshore wind portfolio in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK from 2027. According to a contract notice from August 4, the company is looking to
Two offshore construction milestones have been completed at the 495 MW Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, with Jan De Nul finalizing the export cable connection to the offshore substation and CDWE completing the installation of the offshore substation and its foundation. Jan De Nul said on Aug
Decommissioning work has started on the TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind project at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) site off Karmøy, Norway, with the dynamic export cable disconnected and placed in wet storage, clearing the site for the next demonstrator project. The decommissioning ca
Italian startup Sizable Energy has begun testing an offshore energy storage technology designed to store electricity generated by offshore wind farms and other renewable energy sources at the Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory (NOEL) off the coast of Calabria, Italy. The demonstrator, installed in
Boskalis’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel Windpiper has departed the Port of Rotterdam to pick up its first load and sail to an offshore wind farm site in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea. In an update posted on social media, Boskalis said the SRI vessel will load 45,500 metric tons of
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has launched a tender for a benthic survey of the Doordewind Wind Farm Zone. The survey, commissioned by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), will collect factual benthic data to verify the findings of a desktop reef detection study, the results of which ar
