"Floating Wind" News

Argeo to Use Uncrewed Vessel for Stromar Offshore Wind Farm Survey

Mar 20, 2023

Norwegian offshore survey company Argeo has signed a survey contract with Stromar, a consortium of Ørsted, Renantis, and BlueFloat Energy looking to build a floating wind farm offshore Scotland. Stromar has awarded Argeo a contract to conduct a geophysical survey in the project’s development area…

$3 Billion Forecast to be Invested in New Anchor Handlers to Meet Floating Wind Demand

Jan 06, 2023

Floating wind is an emerging technology. Currently being tested in small scale demonstration and pilot projects, global floating wind commissioned capacity at the end of 2022 was less than 200 megawatts (MW). By 2030, close to 11 gigawatts (GW)…

BW Ideol CEO: Outstanding Results for Floating Wind Demonstrator Floatgen in France

Feb 07, 2023

BW Ideol, a company building concrete foundation for floating wind industry, said Monday that its 5-year-old Floatgen demonstrator continued strong operations, showing a capacity factor of nearly 60% over the last three months and a production of 25GWh since its 2018 commissioning…

Baker Hughes, SLB, Equinor, Saipem Among 2023 OTC Spotlight on New Technology Award Winners

Mar 28, 2023

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), held annually in Houston, on Tuesday announced the winners of their 2023 Spotlight on New Technology Award. The organizers say that the awards are given exclusively to OTC exhibitors 'who are reshaping…

Japan's Emerging Offshore Wind Market Attracting Norwegian Supply Chain and Developers

Mar 14, 2023

Offshore wind organizations Norwegian Offshore Wind in Norway and JWPA in Japan signed an MOU in Tokyo to get business going between the two countries' offshore wind companies. 'Both the Norwegian supply chain and developers are interested in the emerging Japanese market…

Floating Offshore Wind Industry Poised for Full Commercialization by 2035 - Survey

Feb 22, 2023

The floating offshore wind industry is in its early stages of development but is poised for rapid growth, with full commercialization possible in a little over a decade, according to a recent DNV survey. However, the industry faces challenges…

Funding Secured for Further Development of Floating Offshore Wind Substation

Mar 23, 2023

Semco Maritime, ISC Consulting Engineers, Aalborg University, Energy Cluster Denmark and Norway, and Sweden-based Inocean have obtained funding to forward the development of a floating offshore substation (FOSS) concept.The parties announced…

Port of Aberdeen Banks on Offshore Wind for Future Growth

Mar 23, 2023

Port of Aberdeen has welcomed more than 100 vessels working on offshore wind projects to the port so far this year, including the latest arrival of the Blue Tern jack-up installation vessel.Owned by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, the Blue Tern jack-up is a 151-meter-long…

Apollo Wins Pre-FEED Contract for Multi-connection Offshore Substation in Wales

Mar 22, 2023

Energy industry engineering services firm Apollo has won a pre-FEED contract with Celtic Sea Power for the 400MW Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone Multi-connection Offshore Substation (PDZ MOS) and 2x 1GW MOS’s targeting The Crown Estate Refined Area of Search (RAoS) A…

Siem Offshore Nets 7-month OSCV Deal at Equinor's Hywind Tampen Floating Wind Farm

Jan 13, 2023

The Norwegian energy firm Equinor has awarded Siem Offshore a seven-month contract extension for the offshore subsea construction vessel Siem Barracuda.The extension will keep the 120.8m vessel working on Equinor's Hywind Tampen project offshore Norway…

Blue Gem Wind JV Gets Marine License for Wales' First Floating Wind Farm

Feb 23, 2023

French energy major TotalEnergies, in partnership with Simply Blue Group, has secured a marine license for the 100MW Erebus project, Wales' first planned floating wind farm.The project is owned by Blue Gem Wind, the joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Group…

TWP Reveals Names for Two 1GW Offshore Wind Farms in Scotland

Mar 20, 2023

Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a consortium of DEME Concessions, Qair and Aspiravi, on Monday revealed the final names for its two offshore wind project secured in the ScotWind seabed lease round.The 1GW Bowdun offshore wind farm will be located off the coast of Stonehaven…

BlueFloat Energy Deploys LiDAR for 1GW Floating Offshore Wind Project in Taiwan

Mar 16, 2023

Floating offshore wind developer BlueFloat Energy said Thursday that its 1GW  ‘Winds of September’ floating wind project had taken a step further by deploying a floating LiDAR in the waters off Hsinchu, Taiwan. The project was named after the…

World's First Floating Wind Farm Marks Five Years of Operation

Dec 29, 2022

Hywind Scotland, the first floating offshore wind farm in the world, has been running for five years now. It was put into service in 2017.Located off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, it is the world’s first floating offshore wind farm, and…

Hexicon and IX Wind Team up for 1.3GW Floating Offshore Wind Project in Taiwan

Feb 15, 2023

Floating wind technology firm Hexicon has partnered up with IX Wind to provide services for the development and construction of a 1,300+ MW floating offshore wind project in Taiwan. The partnership will offer project management, consultancy and engineering services to the project…

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