Van Oord has installed the final of the 77 monopile foundations on the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Van Oord’s installation vessel Aeolus transported the monopile foundations from Sif’s terminal at Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam. The vessel then installed the
Pulse Structural Monitoring has won a contract to provide digital structural monitoring and insight services and equipment for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua offshore wind project in Taiwan. Pulse is in charge of providing the design, fabrication, yard installation and commissioning of the monitoring ins
Dutch offshore wind services provider Gould has secured contracts for work on the wind farms in the Borssele zone. Van Oord has selected Gould to act as their key logistic hub for the Borssele Ill and IV offshore wind farm. For this, Van Oord will make use of Gould’s offshore service base in Vlissin
The 288 MW EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea will be serviced from the Danish port of Klintholm on the island of Møn from August 2020, EnBW said. Until now, the company’s service team of up to 25 has travelled from Rostock to a hotel vessel close to the wind […]
The turbine components for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project have begun their journey from Denmark to North America. The components for the two 6 MW Siemens Gamesa turbines were loaded in Esbjerg, before the vessel embarked in mid-April on the approximately two-week transatlant
Heli Service International will provide a 12-passenger helicopter for isolation procedures at EWE’s offshore wind farms is Germany. EWE Offshore Service & Solutions (OSS) selected Heli Service on 16 April. The negotiations were held under an emergency procurement process and in addition to the tende
Heerema Fabrication Group is set to manufacture the pre-piling template for the Greater Changhua offshore wind project in Taiwan. The template, which will enable Heerema Marine Contractors to install the piles accurately, consists of three pile sleeves connected by framing, including hydraulically a
MingYang Smart Energy has secured a contract to deliver wind turbines for the Huizhou Gangkou Phase 1 offshore wind project. The Chinese turbine manufacturer won the contract from China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) through a tendering procedure. MingYang will deliver 64 MySE6.25-180 wind
EGCO Group completed the acquisition transaction for a 25% stake in the 640 MW Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan on 17 April.
Dutch energy infrastructure company Gasunie has joined the PosHYdon pilot, a project that aims to integrate three energy systems in the Dutch North Sea: offshore wind, offshore gas, and offshore hydrogen. The PosHYdon pilot is an initiative of Nexstep, the Dutch association for decommissioning and r
Rotech Subsea has finalized a cable burial scope at the Walney offshore wind farm for Ørsted. Rotech Subsea was contracted by the global offshore wind leader to provide its TRS1LD Jet Trenching tool, equipped with HP jets, to carry out the cable burial at Walney in the Irish Sea. The subsea spread o
EnBW has issued a tender seeking certification services for the 900 MW He Dreiht offshore wind project in Germany. The selected company will be in charge of providing certification for the turbines, foundations and the offshore platform. The contract will begin on 1 December this year and end on 31
Geoquip AS has completed a geotechnical survey campaign at the Oriel offshore wind project in Ireland. The month-long campaign complements the geophysical survey completed by Alpha Marine in August last year. Data collected during these surveys contributes to the foundation design, as well as also t
Kvaerner has awarded Scana Offshore with a contract for the supply of mooring equipment for the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind project in Norway. Scana Offshore will deliver 33 hull brackets, used to attach anchoring lines to the hulls on the project’s 11 turbines, and will provide ROV tools f
