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Acteon and Applied Fiber to Optimize Mooring Solutions for Oil and Gas, Floating Wind

Oct 30, 2024

Acteon, through its moorings and anchors business line, InterMoor, and Applied Fiber have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on mooring solutions for various global offshore markets, from oil and gas to gigawatt-scale floating offshore wind…

RWE to Employ Innovative Ecosystem Monitoring Tech at Kaskasi Offshore Wind Farm

Oct 29, 2024

RWE has launched the SeaMe project in partnership with leading scientists to gain better understanding of the interactions between offshore wind farms and the ecosystem through the use of scientific approach combined with new AI-based and CO2 minimizing monitoring technologies…

BOEM Initiates Cetacean Acoustic Monitoring Program

Oct 29, 2024

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has established the Partnership for an Offshore Wind Energy Regional Observation Network (POWERON).The public-private partnership between BOEM and offshore wind lessees is designed to maximize the…

BOEM Teams Up with Defense on Offshore Wind

Oct 29, 2024

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Defense (DoD) to support the coordinated development of wind energy generation on the Nation’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).The…

Belgian Energy Island Gets $700M EU Funding Boost

Oct 28, 2024

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Elia Transmission Belgium (ETB) have signed a $704 million (€650 million) green credit facility agreement, earmarked for the realization of the first phase of the Princess Elisabeth Island project.The Princess…

Patriot Offshore Awarded 10-year CTV Contract for Empire Wind

Oct 28, 2024

Patriot Offshore Maritime Services NY, a subsidiary of Lake Success, N.Y. based Liberty Green Logistics, announced it has been awarded a 10-year contract to provide crew transfer vessel (CTV) services for Empire Offshore Wind LLC.Patriot Offshore's…

North Seas Energy Ministers Agree Vision for Wind Supply Chain

Oct 27, 2024

The Energy Ministers of the nine North Sea countries held their annual meeting on Friday in Odense, Denmark, reaffirming their ambition to transform the North Seas into Europe’s “green power plant.”The North Seas Energy Cooperation is the intergovernmental…

Avangrid Wraps Up $160M Kitty Hawk North Lease Sale to Dominion Energy

Oct 25, 2024

Avangrid, the U.S. unit of Spain's Iberdrola, has closed the sale of Kitty Hawk North offshore wind lease are to Dominion Energy for approximately $160 million.The sale price consists of a lease acquisition payment of $117 million and associated development cost reimbursement to Avangrid…

DEME Gets Multi-Million Dollar Inter-Array Cabling Job at Dutch Offshore Wind Farm

Oct 25, 2024

Belgium-based offshore installation services company DEME has secured a contract, worth up to $320 million, to carry out the transport and installation works for the inter-array cables and secondary steel for the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands…

Sofia Offshore Wind Farm Construction Well Underway

Oct 25, 2024

Van Oord has installed over a quarter of the foundations which will support Sofia offshore wind farm’s 100 wind turbines in the North Sea since the start of operations in May.The Dutch contractor Van Oord is using the Port of Tyne’s Clean Energy Park as a storage and marshalling base…

Brazil-Made FLiDAR Tech for Offshore Wind Set for $10M Investment Boost

Oct 25, 2024

Petrobras has announced plans to invest $10.5 million in a new sea wind testing and measuring phase by releasing new BRAVO buoy units to collect, monitor, and assess offshore wind resources.The technology, designed for the Brazilian sea, is…

Birds Fly Safe as Floating Wind Turbine Keeps Spinning Off Norway

Oct 24, 2024

After more than years of continuous monitoring, no collisions between the TetraSpar floating offshore wind turbine and birds have been recorded at the deployment site at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre), off the coast of Norway.Norwegian…

DNV Heads Assessment to Help Unlock Funding for Eight US Offshore Wind Projects

Oct 24, 2024

Independent energy expert and assurance provider DNV has been appointed to perform technical due diligence to help unlock the financing of eight offshore wind projects on the United States’ Atlantic Coast.The technical due diligence DNV is providing…

Equinor Sees 13% Fall in Quarterly Profit

Oct 24, 2024

Equinor reported a sharper-than-expected 13% decline in third-quarter profit on Thursday, hit by weaker oil prices and lower production, and cut its full-year outlook for capital expenditure and renewable energy production growth.The Norwegian…

Some Vineyard Wind Blades to be Removed After Quality Checks

Oct 24, 2024

GE Vernova will remove some turbine blades installed at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts following quality checks prompted by the failure of a blade in July, the company said on Wednesday.Progress on the still…

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