TGS has won a contract for offshore wind site characterization, including acquisition, imaging, and interpretation services offshore Norway. Ramform Vanguard will start acquisition in early July, with a duration of approximately 25 days. The imaging and interpretation work will begin concurrently wi
All inter-array cables have been installed at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Seaway7 said on July 1 it completed the installation of the last inter-array cable, connecting the 13th and last string of the He Dreiht project to the BorWin epsilon converter platform, part o
Jan De Nul has pulled two export cables for the 1,080 MW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction in Denmark. The export cables will transport clean, renewable electricity from the offshore site 22 kilometers out in the North Sea to the Danish mainland. In 2023, Jan De Nul, together wit
What is described as the “world’s first” offshore solar farm integrated within a wind farm has completed assembly at the Port of Amsterdam and is ready for deployment at the Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Dutch company Oceans of Energy assembled the floating solar fa
A short geotechnical survey is scheduled to begin at the Dogger Bank D offshore wind farm site in the UK this month. The offshore supply vessel (OSV) Connector will be deployed to carry out the work within the array area and the export cable route. The works will be performed in a single campaign, e
A geotechnical seabed survey has started at the project site of Ørsted’s Mooir Vannin Offshore Wind Farm in the Isle of Man’s territorial waters. Ørsted has commissioned GEO to carry out the work six to twelve nautical miles off the coast of Maughold, the area for lease granted to the Danish offshor
The final inter-array cable was installed at the 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier (EMYN) offshore wind farm in France, developed by Les Éoliennes en Mer Services. The 61st and final inter-array cable was installed at the EMYN site located 11.7 kilometers from the island of Yeu and 16.5 kilometers f
Dutch Fugro has been awarded contracts to conduct geophysical and geotechnical site investigations for the development of TotalEnergies and RWE’s two large-scale offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. Windbostel Ost and Windbostel West, being developed by a joint venture between RWE and TotalE
The BeWild project, led by the Dutch geo-data specialist company Fugro, has completed what they claim to be the world’s first fully remote ecology survey at CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Nord offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Together, the BeWild partners integrated computer vision and environment
Geotechnical surveys have commenced for the 240 MW Jammerland Bugt offshore wind farm in Denmark to support the final project design in preparation for construction work. After several months of geophysical surveys, scanning the seabed using 3D measurements, the next step in the development of the J
Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) and LS Marine Solution have signed a preferred supplier agreement (PSA) for the 1 GW Haesong offshore wind farm in South Korea, which COP is developing on behalf of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). Under the agreement, LS Marine Solution is the preferred s
A newly launched project in China is set to build what the project partners say will be the world’s first commercial underwater data center powered by offshore wind. The project will be developed in two phases, with the first phase being a demonstration facility and the second phase scaling up the c
Petrobras, a Brazilian state-owned oil and gas company, has issued tenders for geophysical and geotechnical studies to explore the feasibility of an offshore wind pilot project off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The first tender covers the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of geophysical dat
TGS is conducting a geophysical survey at the site of the Green Volt floating offshore wind project in Scotland, one of the Scottish INTOG round winners and projects planned to provide electricity to oil and gas platforms. The seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard has mobilized from Aberdeen and is schedu
