Fugro Netherlands Marine B.V. has won the contract to carry out a geophysical survey at the proposed Hesselø wind site offshore Denmark. Located in Kattegatt, Hesselø is the second of the three offshore wind farms proposed in Denmark’s Energy Agreement 2018, the first being the Thor project. Both He
An EOLOS floating LiDAR has been deployed off the South Korean coast, as part of a measurement campaign for an offshore wind project being developed by Shell and CoensHexicon. The FLS200 floating LiDAR buoy has been deployed some 60 kilometres off the coast of Ulsan in South Korea, following EOLOS b
EDS HV Group has won a five-year framework contract with RWE Renewables to provide cable fault response and repair services across the energy company’s wind farms offshore the UK. Under the framework agreement, EDS will manage all aspects of cable fault response by mobilising engineers to test and i
EDF Renewables and Fred. Olsen Renewables have appointed Arno Verbeek as the Project Director for the Codling offshore wind project in Ireland. Verbeek will lead the development, construction and operational phases of the Codling Wind Park (CWP). According to the project developers, Verbeek has exte
Danish Energy Agency (Energistyrelsen) has invited offshore wind developers to pre-qualify for the tender to build and operate the Thor offshore wind farm. The pre-qualification period is open until noon on 1 December, with the invitation to selected candidates to bid at the tender expected to be is
Spain’s Greenalia has submitted the project and environmental planning applications to develop four new floating offshore wind farms in Gran Canaria. Dunas, Mojo, Cardon and Guanche are independent projects, each expected to have 50 MW of capacity, located offshore the Gran Canarian South-East coast
Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development Public Company Limited has officially taken over the 50 per cent stake in the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm from Global Infrastructure Partners. In July, Gulf acquired 50 per cent shares of Borkum Riffgrund 2 Investor Holding (BKR2) through its subsidiary G
Seajacks Scylla installed the 33rd jacket foundation at the Moray East offshore wind farm site on 20 September, according to the project’s Notice of Operations from 21 September. The jack-up vessel is transporting the jacket foundations to the project site from Global Energy Group’s site in Nigg. Th
Denmark-headquartered offshore wind developer Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) has installed a floating LiDAR off South Korea. According to the company’s post on social media, the LiDAR was “finally” deployed on 18 September following a series of typhoons in Korea. The floating LiDAR will carry ou
The Haven Seariser 2 jack-up vessel has been deployed off the Norfolk coast in the UK to collect seabed data for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas offshore wind projects. The work, along with other surveys currently being carried out, will shape the design of what will become one of t
Subsea surveys are set to start on 5 October at the Beatrice offshore wind farm, located some 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in Scotland. For the work, the DP2 vessel Glomar Wave and crew transfer vessel Iceni Spirit will be deployed at the site. Surveys will be carried out on selected win
EnBW has opened a tender to hire sea-going vessels with crew for the main geotechnical investigation at the He Dreiht offshore wind project in Germany. According to EnBW, the aim of the new investigation is to meet with the governmental regulations for offshore wind farm installations according to B
Sea and Land Project Engineering (SLPE) has won a contract to provide the turbine foundation concept design for the Inch Cape offshore wind project in Scotland. According to SLPE, the project site has varying seabed depths and ground conditions making it one of the most complex in Europe. This is sa
Dogger Bank Wind Farm has announced 320 jobs to be created in the UK’s North East so far, with the recruitment set to start in early 2021. In May, Dogger Bank Wind Farm said Equinor, which will operate the 3.6 GW wind farm for its expected life of more than 25 years, will construct an […]
