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Every morning, more than 600 workers clock in at the Louisiana shipyard where the Eco Edison, the first US-built vessel to service offshore wind farms, is under construction. At quitting time, a parade of pickups and dusty sedans forms a traffic jam on the road back into town, past buildings that serve the long-dominant oil and gas industry…. Read More
The shift toward renewable energy is gaining momentum as the world grapples with the urgent need to combat climate change and reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. Idaho is emerging as a player in the transition to clean, renewable energy by ensuring responsible mining practices and taking measures to diminish the use of environmentally harmful… Read More
Boskalis has revealed that all the pin piles for the 589MW Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farm have now been installed in Taiwan. Its crane vessel Bokalift 1 installed the last 70-metre-long pin pile for the Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners majority-owned offshore wind farm. In the past three months, as many as 108 pin piles were… Read More
Damen, with its ambition to become the world’s most sustainable shipbuilder has invested considerable time over the last years investigating the potential to reduce the emissions of its products. To this end, the shipbuilder has been working together with industry partners to achieve the most significant and effective results. Damen’s offshore vessel portfolio has featured… Read More
Ørsted to fully own seabed with up to 4 GW of capacity and fully own strategic O&M contracts. Acquisition further strengthens Ørsted’s offshore wind energy position in the US Northeast. Ørsted has signed an agreement to acquire Eversource Energy’s 50 % interest in the uncontracted federal offshore wind lease area currently owned jointly by the… Read More
In the latest milestone for the growth of the U.S. offshore wind supply chain, offshore wind joint development partners Ørsted and Eversource today marked the “sail away” of the first American-built offshore wind substation, which departed a Texas fabrication facility yesterday. The substation is transiting across the Gulf of Mexico and then up the East… Read More
IHC Offshore Energy is pleased to announce that a contract has been secured to supply its client in South East Asia, PT Ketrosden Triasmitra Tbk, with a full Royal IHC fibre optic plough spread. This state-of-the-art plough system will be used aboard the CS Bentang Bahari vessel for the installation of fibre optic cable networks… Read More
Norway’s Island Offshore has secured light well intervention work for its 2008-built Island Wellserver on the Norwegian continental shelf, taking its order book to close to $274m. The contract with the end customer, Equinor, has been entered into by TIOS, Island Offshore’s former joint venture with TechnipFMC and cooperation partner for this service for many years, which also… Read More
Equinor said today that it will postpone any further development of the Trollvind floating offshore wind farm initiative indefinitely. “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.” said the state-owned energy company. “The authorities have been informed about… Read More
A 99-meter cable installation vessel on order for first quarter 2025 delivery from Sefine Shipyard in Turkey will have a number of advanced features. The vessel will be owned by Harstad, Norway, based shipowner Agalas, which was established last year. One of the partners in the Agalas is NSK Ship Design, which has designed the cable layer in… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior, is proposing the first offshore wind farm lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The proposed sale is part of the leasing project announced by the DOI in 2021 with a goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy… Read More
The EnerGeo Alliance has sent a letter to New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy and Assemblyman Christopher Tully, Chairman of the state’s Committee on Science, Innovation and Technology in advance of the Assembly’s hearing on marine mammal deaths scheduled for Thursday May 18, 2023. There have been at least 11 whales that have washed up dead… Read More
As offshore wind companies seek permits for new projects, officials in New Bedford are weighing in on the impact on the fishing industry. SouthCoast Wind, formerly Mayflower Wind, is proposing a 2,400-megawatt offshore wind project located 30 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. New Bedford Port Authority Executive Director Gordon Carr is calling for SouthCoast Wind to… Read More
A Dublin-based company with a modular floating offshore wind turbine design believes its design checks one of the most important boxes the deep-sea wind industry has yet to solve: Affordability. Rather than reducing the height of their turbines, building a wider, more stable base or trying to develop an entirely new method for capturing wind energy, Gazelle… Read More
Amogy, a U.S.-based startup that seeks to commercialize ammonia-fueled power systems, announced that it has signed an agreement to explore the installation of its ammonia-fuel system aboard an offshore vessel. This comes as the company is currently working on a project to demonstrate an ammonia-fueled tugboat by the end of 2023 after it has already… Read More