Codling Wind Park is carrying out geophysical surveys at the 1.5 GW offshore wind project in Ireland. According to the project’s Notice to Mariners, the surveys are scheduled to take place from 18 June to 10 August, weather permitting. Vessel MV Relume will conduct the survey in water depths greater
A German airport operator has closed a tender call looking to procure electricity produced by offshore wind turbines in the country. While the latest tender notice shows that the procedure ended without an awarded contract, a recent update from the company said that the award procedure was in progre
A geophysical, geotechnical and environmental (benthic) survey at the sites the Crown Estate awarded to a consortium between BP and EnBW earlier this year is set to start on 27 June. The proposed 3 GW Yellow North and South offshore wind project consists of two sites in the Irish Sea, off the coasts
The ‘transition’ part of the energy transition is starting to show a more defined shape, and what the world’s path towards being net-zero one day entails, as concrete plans and initiatives increasingly emerge across the energy and transportation sectors. Judging by our headlines this week, in the ye
The first of two export cables has been installed at the nearshore of Thorntonloch Beach as part of the construction of the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in Scotland. The offshore cable was transported to the nearshore area of Thorntonloch Beach by Prysmian’s 124-meter long cable layi
Ørsted has awarded two cable protection system (CPS) contracts to CRP Subsea for the Borkum Riffgrund 3 and Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. CRP Subsea, formerly known as Trelleborg Offshore UK, will supply 223 of its NjordGuard monopile entry cable protection systems for the inter-array
MMT and SEP Hydrographic are set to conduct the geophysical and environmental survey at the Pentland floating offshore wind project in Scotland. Geophysical and environmental survey work will be carried out in the offshore areas and coastal sea areas west of the Pentland Firth. MMT will conduct the
Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Ltd. (NnGOWL) is set to replace the current boulder clearance vessel Sartor with Sar Frame at the 450 MW UK offshore wind project. Sartor will be replaced week commencing 28 June, at the earliest, by Sar Fame which will undertake the remaining boulder relocation o
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has selected Ramboll to assist with the offshore geotechnical soil investigations for future offshore wind farm areas. The investigations will take place in five future offshore wind farm areas covering 86 locations in the GermanExclusive Econ
Dutch oil major Shell has partnered with Norwegian hydropower producers BKK and Lyse to apply for licenses in two areas currently offered by Norwegian government for offshore wind development. The consortium is now working to prepare applications for projects in the Utsira Nord area, deemed better s
Ireland-based offshore engineering consultancy Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) will be providing geoscience advisory and engineering consultancy services for the Baltica 1 offshore wind project in Poland. Under a contract with the developer PGE Baltica, GDG’s scope of work for the offshore wind f
Export cable burial works are set to soon commence at the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in the UK. The burial of the first export cable is due to begin in the week commencing 21 June, with burial of the second cable planned to begin week commencing 19 July 2, at the earliest. [&hellip
One more developer has joined the battle with inter-array cable issues that continues across the offshore wind industry, as RWE and its consortium partners behind an offshore wind farm in the UK have discovered a defect in the cable protection system on multiple locations along several inter-array c
Ørsted is developing a solution that could potentially save the company from spending as much as €403 million to repair damaged inter-array cables across up to ten of its offshore wind farms. As previously reported, Ørsted discovered an issue with Cable Protection Systems (CPSs) on the Race Bank win
