With our offshore vessel Kamara, Boskalis has started a new identification and clearance campaign for unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the UK sector of the North Sea. The development of Ørsted‘s offshore wind farm Hornsea 3 will require potential explosive objects to be located and thoroughly investigated in the coming weeks. During World War II, many… Read More
Despite a relatively stable short-term pipeline of U.S. wind power projects under construction, the five-year outlook of America’s wind capacity additions has been significantly limited due to the Trump Administration’s energy policies, Wood Mackenzie said in a new report. The energy consultancy slashed its five-year forecast of new capacity installations to just 45 gigawatts (GW), down by… Read More
Plans for a new generation of floating wind farms off the coasts of Wales and South West England moved a step closer as the leasing round for three sites in the Celtic Sea entered its final stages. The Crown Estate – which manages the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland also revealed that, as part… Read More
Smith Point’s Park Beach is where offshore wind energy will soon come ashore. Crews there are laying cables for New York’s second wind farm with 84 turbines 30 miles off Montauk. “We have this untapped renewable resource, the wind… this is going to power millions of homes… with almost zero fossil fuel use,” Melissa Parrot, executive… Read More
VARD, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of specialized vessels, is pleased to announce that we have signed a contract with the Taiwanese based company Dong Fang Offshore for the design and construction of one Offshore Subsea Construction Vessel, with option(s). The vessel is of VARD 3 39 design. The value of the… Read More
