Eneco’s Profit Down on Lower Gas and Electricity Prices
Dutch energy company Eneco Group recorded EUR 139 million profit after income tax , slightly less than the EUR 144 million made by the company in the same period last year, as a result of lower prices...
View ArticleDudgeon Substation Topside Sails Away
The 1,700-ton topside built by Sembmarine SLP for the offshore substation of the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm has sailed out of the port of Lowestoft, UK. The four-deck topside will be installed on...
View ArticleTop News of the Week, 1 – 7 August 2016
Breaking: First US Offshore Wind Turbine Stands Tall Deepwater Wind’s CEO Jeffrey Grybowski has shared images of the the jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern as it attaches the final blade and...
View ArticleMassachusetts Governor to Sign Energy Bill
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is expected to sign the state’s landmark energy bill which calls for public utilities to buy 1,600 MW of power generated from offshore wind farms over the coming...
View ArticleSiem Offshore to Install Nordsee One Inter-Array Cables by End of August
Siem Offshore’s recent additions to the fleet, the installation support vessel Siem Moxie and the cable lay vessel Siem Aimery, are expected to install all of the 59 inter-array grid cables for the...
View ArticleSeaway Heavy Lifting Installs Dudgeon OSS Topside
Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has completed its work on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm by installing the topside for the wind farm’s offshore substation on Sunday, 7 August. SHL utilised its crane...
View ArticleWikinger Substation Ready For Sail-Out
Iberdrola, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, and Navantia hosted the delivery ceremony of the substation built for the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm at Navantia’s premises in Cadiz, on Monday, 8 August....
View ArticleMassachusetts Enters Offshore Wind Era
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed the new energy legislation which calls for development of 1,600MW of offshore wind capacity by 2027 into law on Monday, 8 August. An Act Relative to Energy...
View ArticleSif Joins BorWin Gamma Team
Dutch Sif Holding N.V. has been awarded a contract for the production of all tubular components for the jacket of the BorWin gamma platform. The contract includes the production of legs, bracings,...
View ArticleROVOP Lands Offshore Wind, O&G Work
Aberdeen-based ROV operator ROVOP has won several contracts across the offshore wind and oil and gas sectors with a combined value of USD 4 million (EUR 3.6 million). The contracts are with new clients...
View ArticleScaldis to Install Kriegers Flak OSS Topsides
Denmark’s Energinet.dk and Germany’s 50Hertz Transmission GmbH have awarded Scaldis Salvage and Marine Contractors NV with a contract to install two offshore substation topsides for the 600MW Kriegers...
View ArticleTimelapse: Dudgeon OSS Topside Lowered into Place
Statoil has shared a timelapse video of a heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov installing a 1,700-tonne topside onto a jacket on Dudgeon bank off Norfolk, UK. The topside and the jacket were built by...
View ArticleTSOs Report on Nordic Power System by 2025
The Nordic transmission system operators (TSOs), Svenska kraftnät, Statnett, Fingrid and Energinet.dk, have launched a report on challenges and opportunities affecting the Nordic power system in the...
View ArticleWikinger Substation Heads to the Baltic Sea (Photos)
The 4,550-tonne offshore substation built for the 350MW Wikinger wind farm departed last weekend from Cadiz in Southern Spain and is now en route to the installation site in the German part of the...
View ArticleFirst Race Bank Offshore Substation In Place
DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm got the first of two of its offshore substations last week, Smulders reports. The topside and the jacket of the Race Bank 02 substation, loaded out back...
View ArticleOstwind 1 Export Cable Installation Reaching Halfway Mark
The installation of the Ostwind 1 offshore cable system that will link the 385MW Arkona and the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farms in the German part of the Baltic Sea to an onshore substation in...
View Articlenkt cables Connector Hooks Måde Giant to Grid
nkt cables has supplied the 72 kV connector which enables transmission of power from one of the two V164 8MW prototype wind turbines from MHI Vestas Offshore Wind installed in Måde, near Esbjerg, on...
View ArticleReport: Booming Offshore Wind to Up Demand in HVDC Market
The global market for HVDC converter stations is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 24% between 2016 and 2020, spurred on by the recent rise in offshore wind installations, according to market...
View ArticleEDS HV Management to Watch Over Blyth 66kV Cable
High voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Management has been appointed to act on behalf of EDF Energy Renewables (EDF ER) as owner’s engineers monitoring the cable manufacture for the 41.5MW Blyth...
View ArticleMurphy Hired for EOWDC Onshore Works
J. Murphy & Sons has been appointed to carry out the onshore work for the European Offshore Deployment Centre (EOWDC), also known as the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (AOWF). This includes the...
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