Offshore Renewable Energy - Aug 18th, 2022
 
 
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August 18, 2022
Hai Long Offshore Wind Project has awarded an EPC contract for two offshore substations for the Hai Long 2 and 3 wind farms off Taiwan to a consortium of Semco Maritime and PTSC M&C.
The order was placed in May by Sembcorp Marine, which has secured a contract for the construction of the vessel for Maersk Supply Service.
A consortium of Technip Energies, Subsea 7 and Samkang M&T will perform the FEED for Corio Generation/TotalEnergies’ Ulsan Gray Whale 3 wind farm project off the east coast of South Korea.
UL Solutions will certify the design fundamentals of the 350-MW project, which will be built in the Polish Baltic Sea about 55 km from the shore, covering an area of 41 sq km, at a water depth of 30-50 m.
Two Conferences. One Location. Attendees can expect to learn and discuss the real-life issues and solutions relevant to deepwater operations and topsides, platforms and hulls. Nov. 8-10, 2022.
ArcVera Renewables claims that energy losses from offshore wind plants caused by long-distance wakes are much greater than expected.
Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) will deliver owner’s engineer support for the pre-FEED for the Outer Dowsing offshore wind farm project in the UK southern North Sea.
Source Energie has welcomed The UK Crown Estate’s publication of five broad “Areas of Search” for floating offshore wind energy generation projects in the Celtic Sea.
EEW SPC has broken a record with a 1,421-tonne monopile that was manufactured for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm.
The joint $312.9 million investment is to acquire a 50% stake in a special purpose vehicle that holds 50% of Borkum Riffgrund 2, an offshore wind farm in Germany.
DEME Offshore has successfully installed the offshore substation of the Fécamp offshore wind farm, deploying Orion, the newest member of the DEME fleet.
Copenhagen Energy plans an offshore wind farm in Commonwealth and State waters north of Geraldton, Western Australia.
JDR has been awarded a contract by Seaway 7 to supply 66-kV subsea array cables for the EnBW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany.
Deutsche Windtechnik has signed several contracts for underwater inspections at offshore wind farms in the North Sea and Baltic Sea.
A GlobalData analyst says offshore wind is a renewables option to power Japan, which is experimenting with floating solar power; both resources were expensive but are now more economical with improvements in technology.
Dominion Energy has selected Systematic’s SITE software to ensure the safety of personnel working in and around the 112,800-acre commercial lease area of the 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project.
Developers can apply for the rights to build small-scale offshore wind projects of less than 100 MW and projects that will provide green electricity to oil and gas infrastructure to reduce their carbon emissions.
The transaction to combine Mainstream Renewable Power and Aker Offshore Wind to create a stronger renewable energy company with a 27-GW portfolio has closed.
Shell Overseas Investment B.V. has completed its 100% acquisition of Solenergi Power Private Ltd. and with it, the Sprng Energy group of companies from Actis Solenergi Ltd.
Vattenfall has awarded PD&MS Group a three-year operations and maintenance contract to support its offshore wind farms in the UK, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.
The $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project will include a total of 176 wind turbines located roughly 30 miles off the US coast, Dominion Energy said in a statement.
TenneT will soon be reliably bringing even more green wind power from the German North Sea to land via the direct current connection DolWin6.
Seaway 7 has signed a letter of award with Moray Offshore Windfarm (West) Ltd. to begin early works on the EPIC of interarray grid cables for the Moray West offshore wind farm.
Cognitive Business, a provider of artificial intelligence/machine learning services to the offshore wind sector, has formed a collaboration with Weatherquest.
AVANGRID Inc., part of the IBERDROLA Group, has finalized an agreement to assume responsibility as the operations and management services provider for the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore US wind project.
The BladeBug technology is a six-legged inspect-and-repair robot that was developed under a £1 million collaboration project between BladeBUG and ORE Catapult, part funded by Innovate UK.
UK-based Osbit has completed its first project for Shimizu Corp. with the delivery of a bespoke access system for the company’s newbuild offshore jackup vessel.
The Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm in the Dutch North Sea has generated its first electricity.
X1 Wind has successfully laid its dynamic cable and is ready for final installation of its fully functional floating wind PivotBuoy prototype at the test site in the Canary Islands.
The new operations and maintenance (O&M) hub, built to serve the Greater Changhua offshore wind farms, is the largest in terms of size and offshore service capacity in the Asia-Pacific region.
Cerulean Winds and Ping Petroleum UK announced the signing of an agreement to create one of the UK’s first oil and gas facilities powered mainly by offshore wind.
The partners in the Salamander project have appointed Wood as principal designer responsible for the pre-FEED scope for the 100-MW floating wind farm development offshore eastern Scotland.
Cadeler has signed an important agreement with Ørsted for the installation of offshore foundations at the Hornsea 3 offshore windfarm off the east coast of the UK.
Oceanographers from Bangor University are calling for new research to be done into the environmental impact of turbulence caused by tidal flow past floating deepwater wind farms.
A Rystad Energy analyst will provide projections for capital expenditures by offshore oil and gas companies in the near term, with a particular focus on the drilling, EPC and subsea construction markets.
The offshore Portugal site is now ready for the export installation.
Eco Wave Power Global has started test runs of a wave energy pilot project at the Port of Jaffa in Tel Aviv.