Offshore Wind

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June 30, 2023
Seaway7’s scope of work includes the transport, logistics and installation of 95 monopile foundations, associated seabed preparation and scour protection along with the engineering, supply and installation of the 95 inner-array cables.
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June 2023
Many practices and technologies used in the offshore oil industry can be adapted to facilitate a timely, economically feasible energy transition. One example is transforming riserless casing drilling technology into a subsea anchoring system, which decreases the cost of offshore wind electricity by minimizing capital expenses.
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June 20, 2023
For support vessels moving between turbines or rigs during a single shift, OCTOPUS Operational Planner forecasts vessel workability across multiple sites, benefiting decisions on deployment, safety, efficiency and sustainability.
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June 15, 2023
Several of the Grampian Tyne crew have undertaken the firm’s bespoke pathway training developed for experienced seafarers to gain the required workboat qualifications, to push industry best practice, alongside hands on experience on the firm’s fleet of hybrid-electric powered SOV workboats.
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June 13, 2023
The offshore wind farm will have a capacity of approximately 1.5 GW and will be Poland’s largest-ever renewable energy project, with 107 wind turbines producing enough green energy to cover the power consumption of approximately 2.4 million Polish households.
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May 31, 2023
The plan is part of a wider deal between the government and most of the opposition parties to build new offshore wind power capacity of as much as 14 gigawatts, or enough to provide electricity to about 14 million European households.
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May 25, 2023
Supply Chain and People Director Katy Heidenreich says that unless development and approval processes are sped up, and the skills and expertise of the existing offshore oil and gas workforce are transferred, the UK could lose its early-mover advantage.
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May 23, 2023
This decision is based on several challenges facing the project, including technology availability, rising cost and a strained timetable to deliver on the original concept. The authorities have been informed about the decision.
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May 22, 2023
The offshore wind project's main production facility, "Haiyou Guanlan," is China's first deep-sea floating wind power platform that supplies power to offshore oilfield under the most challenging oceanic conditions.
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May 09, 2023
The scope of the project involves the engineering, procurement, construction, offshore hook-up and commissioning of two Offshore Substation Platforms for the Empire Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farms located about 20 miles south of Long Island, east of the Rockaways.
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May 05, 2023
Located over 130 km off the northeast coast of England, Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be, at the time of completion, the world’s largest offshore wind farm and will be capable of powering 6 million British homes.
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April 2023
In this executive summary of a larger strategy outline, the U.S. Department of Energy sets out its strategic contributions toward 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power generation and beyond.
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April 21, 2023
The consortium made up of Dragados Offshore – a subsidiary of Cobra IS – and Siemens Energy has been awarded by TenneT a contract to design, build and install the three offshore windfarm energy converter platforms in the North Sea.
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April 20, 2023
The joint venture would benefit from the best-in-class experience of both partners across their respective core businesses providing offshore services.
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April 18, 2023
The NG20000X vessel has the capability of installing offshore wind turbines with a rotor diameter of more than 300 meters, as well as XXL monopiles weighing up to 3,000 tons at water depths of up to 70 meters.
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April 18, 2023
Seagreen will be Scotland's largest offshore wind farm and will have the capacity to power over 1.6 million homes. The installation of the foundations has been carried out by the Saipem 7000 vessel, one of the largest semi-submersible crane vessels in the world, during a series of offshore campaigns.
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April 17, 2023
The Defense Department’s concerns, which come on top of other conflicts identified by the U.S. Coast Guard, have spooked renewable power developers and U.S. East Coast states counting on mid-Atlantic wind farms to meet clean energy and climate goals.
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April 14, 2023
The Norwegian company is to transport and support the installation of a minimum of 104 Vestas offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 15 megawatts each.
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April 10, 2023
In this project, POWERCHINA initiated the double-deck sea transportation equipment for offshore wind power tower barrels, putting an end to the long-time dependence on single-deck sea transportation for tower barrels that measure more than 5 meters in diameter.
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April 06, 2023
TerraSond and Benthic, Geo-services brands in Acteon’s Data and Robotics division, have been awarded a combined geophysical and geotechnical survey work scope by the BlueFloat Energy and Renantis Partnership for its Bellrock and Broadshore wind farms northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland.
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April 04, 2023
24 turbines for Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm have been successfully installed. Most of the turbines are already producing green electricity and contributing to the German Energiewende.
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