Dutch gas infrastructure company Gasunie has launched a public tender seeking a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) from a new-build offshore wind farm as part of its target to source 40% of its energy from carbon-free sources by 2030. Through the tender, Gasunie is seeking to procure 40 MW of
Van Oord has wrapped up the rock installation works at the Hollandse Kust West VI offshore wind farm, owned and developed by Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell, Eneco, and Chubu Electric Power. Using its vessels Bravenes and Nordnes, Van Oord installed a total of 300,000 tons of rock that will
XOCEAN is set to begin a geophysical survey of a potential offshore export cable corridor for the proposed Bellrock floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. According to a Notice to Mariners, the survey campaign is scheduled to commence no earlier than July 26 and is expected to take around 60 days
The second export cable installation campaign for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland has been completed, the cable supplier Orient Cable (NBO) said via social media. The export cables were installed by Enshore Subsea, with NBO now moving onto the next stage of works, including offshore joi
Føn Energy Services Poland has signed a long-term, multi-million-euro agreement with the joint venture between Orlen Group and Northland Power to provide integrated operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. Under the agreement,
Orient Cable (NBO) has installed the subsea cable for China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation’s 16 MW floating wind demonstration platform, said to be the world’s largest single-unit floating wind turbine. NBO says this is the first 66 kV dynamic cable for floating wind installed in China. The company’
The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and Japan’s OYO Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on offshore wind projects, research and knowledge sharing, marking a step in NGI’s expansion into the Japanese offshore wind market. The agreement was signed on June
OEG has returned to the East Anglia Two site for seabed clearance before construction work starts on the UK’s new offshore wind farm. According to a recently issued Notice to Mariners, the company will be carrying out the disposal of unexploded ordnance (UXO), boulder clearance, and the removal of o
The inter-array cable installation campaign at the Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm in Germany has been completed, with 48 cables laid, buried, terminated, and tested. “Cables rarely draw the attention that foundations, substations, or turbines do. Yet this package – laying, burial, termination,
Encomara’s floating wind installation technology, Squid, has received product design assessment (PDA) certification from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). The PDA follows an approval in principle (AiP) granted by ABS in November 2025 and moves the system a step closer to commercial deployment,
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with Belgium’s Jan De Nul and the Netherlands’ Boskalis to cooperate on high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable projects. The agreements were signed on June 10 during the Korea-EU Energy Transition Cooperation
Hydrogen of Dutch Origin (H2DO) and its partners have launched a feasibility and concept study for a 30–50 MW offshore green hydrogen project linked to offshore wind generation in the Dutch North Sea. The project will examine the development of an offshore hydrogen production installation designed t
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has secured another contract for offshore wind site characterization in Europe, for which the company will deploy its seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard. Under the latest contract, announced on June 9, Ramform Vanguard will begin data acquisition work
Van Oord has completed the inter-array cable installation campaign at the Windanker offshore wind farm site in the Baltic Sea. According to the project owner and developer, Iberdrola, the campaign involved the installation and burial of 21 inter-array cables with a combined length of 28 kilometers.
