A Spain-based offshore wind player could be one of the bidders in an auction which will be held in Australia at the end of this year, or in the first half of 2023.
Fugro is set to soon commence a geophysical and geotechnical site survey at Vattenfall’s Norfolk offshore wind projects in the North Sea. Fugro Discovery will be deployed over the survey area starting on or around 1 August, with the activities set to be completed by the end of November. The 70-meter
California Governor Gavin Newsom has called for the increase of the state’s offshore wind target to at least 20 GW by 2045 as part of an action plan that aims to accelerate the energy transition. In a letter to the Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), Governor Newsom called for the st
Subsea 7 has laid the first subsea cables in the water for the 94.6 MW Hywind Tampen floating wind farm offshore Norway. JDR Cable System is in charge of supplying the electric cables for the project from its factory in Hartlepool, the UK, while Subsea 7 is responsible for the installation of the ca
Adira Renewables, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kim Heng, signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Crowley Wind Services to cooperate on offshore wind farm cable laying installation projects across the US East Coast. Under the MoU, Kim Heng will issue updates about material develop
Moray West Offshore Windfarm is getting ready to conduct unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey investigations at the project’s site and export cable corridor. The offshore wind project is located on the Smith Bank in the Outer Moray Firth, approximately 22.5 kilometres from the Caithness coastline, offsh
Fugro is set to kick off a geotechnical site survey campaign at the North Celtic Sea and South Irish Sea offshore wind projects at the end of July. Supply vessel Fugro Voyager is in charge of carrying out the work which will include a downhole cone penetration test (CPT) and continuous sampling bore
Transmission system operator 50Hertz has announced that the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore substation has been connected to the German extra-high voltage grid after the 220 kV submarine cable required for this was pulled into place on the platform over the past few days. Final assembly and commissioning wor
Green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds has revealed it will bid for four seabed lease sites with a combined capacity of 6 GW of floating wind to decarbonise the UK’s oil and gas sector under Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. This scale w
A pre-lay multibeam survey operation along the export cable route for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm in Massachusetts has begun. The survey operations, being performed by the research vessel Shearwater in the Nantucket Sound, will take approximately two weeks, subject to weather conditions. Sh
RTE Réseau de Transport d’Electricité has issued a tender for offshore unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey along the export cable routes of the Centre Manche 1 & 2 (AO4 auction) and South Britanny (A05 auction) offshore wind farm grid connection projects. The aim of the surveys is to identify potential
Worldwide dependence on oil and gas has been in evidence ever since the Ukraine crisis started, casting doubt over the pace and the lengths the world is prepared to go to in order to embrace decarbonisation. While the shift to green energy investments is undoubtedly both necessary and inevitable, th
Ocean Infinity has started a geophysical survey campaign at the South Irish Sea offshore wind farm in Ireland, off the coasts of Wexford and south Wicklow. The survey, which is carried out by the vessel Northern Maria, will last until 30 August, subject to weather conditions. For the survey, Ocean I
Green Rebel Marine has commenced a geophysical site survey campaign at the Emerald floating offshore wind project in the North Celtic Sea. The surveys, which began on 13 July and are set to take place until 31 July, are carried out by Roman Rebel, using multibeam echo sounders and ultra-high-resolut
