Danish offshore wind farm developer has acquired a majority stake in the 100MW Salamander floating wind joint venture set up by Simply Blue Group and Subsea 7.Ørsted will own an 80% stake in the project off the east coast of Scotland as Simply Blue Group’s newest JV partner on the project…
Norwegian energy company Equinor has partnered up with Naturgy, with the two firms entering a development agreement prior to Spain’s first upcoming offshore wind auction off the coast of the Canary Islands.The Spanish government plans to develop up to 3 GW of offshore wind by 2030…
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' CI IV fund and Italy's GreenIT have signed agreements to build two floating offshore wind farms in Sicily and Sardinia.The wind farms are to be located more than 35 km from the coast and will have a total capacity of approximately 750MW…
Inocean, a Norwegian subsidiary of Technip Energies, has received an Approval in Principle (AiP) and Basic Design Approval for DNV for its new INO12TM semisubmersible platform concept. An Approval in Principle (AiP) is an independent assessment of a concept within an agreed framework…
Offshore wind developers Ørsted and Eversource have awarded HeliService USA the contract for helicopter crew change operations for the two companies’ joint venture wind projects in the Northeast United States. According to Ørsted, the contract…
An official launching ceremony for the Green Jade DP3 heavy lift and installation vessel, the first such vessel built in Taiwan, was held at CSBC’s shipyard in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.The news was shared by the Belgian offshore installation firm DEME Offshore…
Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted and Spanish oil company Repsol have partnered up to explore joint deployment of floating wind turbines offshore Spain.'After several years of concept development and small-scale testing, floating offshore wind is now on the brink of commercialization…
Offshore services firm PACC Offshore Services Holdings (POSH) and mooring and marine service specialist First Marine Solutions (“FMS”) to explore growth opportunities for floating offshore wind in Europe.The two companies signed a Memorandum…
Offshore services firm Swire Energy Services (SES) said it has been awarded a contract from wind farm operator Ørsted for a routine maintenance campaign off the U.K. coast for Summer 2022.The new contract will see SES provide services including…
Kongsberg Maritime will supply integrated equipment packages for two more Integrated Wind Services' offshore wind commissioning service operation vessels, slated for delivery in H1 2024.IWS already has the two identical vessels on order for delivery in 2023…
The American Bureau of Shipping said Monday that the recently ordered wind turbine Installation vessel Sembcorp Marine is building for Maersk Supply Service would be built to ABS Class.Maersk Supply Service's vessel will be capable of handling the latest generation 15MW turbines…
Norwegian energy company Equinor has hired Technip Energies to carry out a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the offshore floating wind Firefly project, located 70 kilometers offshore the East Coast of South Korea.The FEED contract covers the engineering…
Norwegian maritime technology and equipment provider Kongsberg Maritime has won will supply a technology package for a new Wind Turbine Installation Vessel that Singapore's Sembcorp Marine is building for the Danish offshore service provider Maersk Supply Service…
Britain has approved the development of East Anglia One and East Anglia Two offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 1.7 gigawatts, located in Southwold off the coast of Suffolk in the North Sea, Britain's planning inspectorate said.Britain has a target to reach net zero emissions by 2050…
Offshore renewables company RWE Renewables has this week seen the 1,400-tonne Kaskasi offshore wind farm substation topside installed onto the monopile foundation, off Germany.The 342-megawatt Kaskasi offshore wind project is being built 35 kilometers north of the island of Heligoland…