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(OE) The mobile wind power installation platform Hengtong Haiyue has been delivered to the Hengtong Group by Jiangsu Dajin Heavy Industry in China. The mobile platform is equipped with a 1,600t leg encircling full-circle slewing crane as well as a 4,000m2 deck with a variable load of over 8,500t, and is capable of installing 20MW... Continue Reading →
(OE) Italian cable maker and installation services provider Prysmian has completed sea trial tests for ultra-deep installation of High Voltage Direct Current Mass Impregnated (HVDC MI) subsea cable at water depth of 2,150 meters. This is an industry record breaking installation, as it is the first time an HVDC cable is laid at such a... Continue Reading →
(OE) Iberdrola has taken the final investment decision (FID) for its Windanker offshore wind farm, located in the German Baltic Sea, advancing the 315 MW project to delivery phase. Windanker wind farm will reinforce Iberdrola’s Baltic Hub, which will add more than 1,100 MW of installed offshore wind capacity, comprising also the Wikinger project with 350 MW,... Continue Reading →
(OE) Norwegian seismic firm TGS has announced a new campaign for offshore wind and metocean measurement located in Morro Bay, off the U.S. West Coast. This initiative further expands the company's pioneering multi-client wind and metocean measurement initiatives in key global offshore wind regions. The campaign seeks to greatly enhance the industry's understanding of offshore... Continue Reading →
(Offshore-energy.biz) Texas-based subsea oil and gas equipment and services player Trendsetter Engineering has tucked a new assignment under its belt on two offshore oil fields in Brazil, following its entry into the South American country’s market with the establishment of local facilities in Macaé. Trident Energy do Brasil, part of Trident Energy Group, has picked... Continue Reading →
(OE) RWE has selected Argeo, a subsea service provider, to perform the site investigation work for Canopy offshore wind farm, a 1.6 GW floating wind project located off the coast of Northern California. The site investigation survey is a key milestone in the development of RWE’s first commercial scale floating offshore wind farm. The planned... Continue Reading →
(OE) The Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, led by Equinor, has selected six companies that will receive support to further develop their ideas and advance offshore wind’s potential in New York. Six companies were selected from a pool of 78 applicants based on the novelty of their solutions that will help propel the United States to... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore services firm Subsea 7 has been awarded a ‘super major’ contract by Petrobras for the development of the Búzios 9 field offshore Brazil. The contract scope includes engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, and pre-commissioning of 102 kilometres of rigid risers and flowlines for the steel lazy wave production system. The exact value of the... Continue Reading →
(OE) Dominion Energy has announced that the first monopile foundation for the 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), the largest offshore wind farm under construction in the United States, has been installed approximately 29 miles off the Virginia Beach coast. The monopile was installed by the Orion, DEME Group's heavy lift vessel. Once complete in... Continue Reading →
(OE) Apollo and DOF, in collaboration with the ORE Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FoWCoE), have delivered the study on GW-scale floating offshore wind installation methods. Installing a single, state-of-the-art floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) represents a milestone in offshore marine operations. However, GW-scale floating wind farms will require approximately sixty FOWTs, which... Continue Reading →
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