Offshore wind turbine installation company Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has won a firm contract with renewable energy firm RWE to install 72 offshore wind turbine generators (WTGs) at the 1GW Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea.For this project…
Dutch offshore installation services company Van Oord has been appointed as a preferred supplier for the transport and installation of foundations for the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster wind project in Germany, a joint venture between RWE and Northland Power…
Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi will collaborate with floating wind technology firm Odfjell Oceanwind and Source Galileo to pursue a pilot project for floating offshore wind at its Goliat oil field in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway…
Hitachi Energy and industry group WindEurope have published a new report which concludes that Europe needs more meshed grids to ensure its offshore wind development.Meshed grids are clusters of offshore wind farms with fewer cables connected…
Norwegian energy regulator NVE on Tuesday recommended 20 areas suitable for deploying offshore wind farms that will help meet a 2040 target for 30 gigawatts (GW) of capacity.The areas, dotted along Norway's vast coastline, were the ones believed…
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday invited public comment on possible commercial wind energy development in areas offshore Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.BOEM said the call represented an early step in the…
Export Finance Norway (Eksfin) has financed Nexans Norway’s new UK export cable contract with NOK 2bn (£155m) in loan guarantees.'The transaction covers the export and installation of advanced high-voltage subsea cables for the Moray West wind farm off the coast of Scotland…
Seven companies in Germany's energy sector said on Tuesday that they had formed an alliance to bring clean hydrogen from the seashore to centers of industrial consumption. Germany wants to build 10 gigawatts of green hydrogen capacity, made from solar and wind power…
Danish offshore wind installation firm Cadeler said Tuesday it had signed two contracts with Ørsted for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. Cadeler said that together, the two contracts constitute a very large contract award. Cadeler…
A new crew transfer vessel (CTV) for the Ishikari Bay New Port offshore wind farm in Hokkaido Prefecture arrived in Japan from Singapore on April 19, Japan's NYK has informed. The vessel is named “Rera As.”After completing its sea trials, the…
The President of the Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, and the Chief Executive Officer of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Congo LNG.This will be the country's first natural gas liquefaction project,…
Gazelle Wind Power, a Dublin-based developer of foundations for floating offshore wind farms, is unveiling third-generation technology this week at a wind industry event in Denmark.The company said its enhanced design 'further refines Gazelle’s…
Jack-up drilling rig contractor Shelf Drilling has secured a short-term contract for Adriatic I jack-up drilling rig for operations offshore Nigeria.The contract is for 90 days and has an estimated value of $11 million, excluding revenues for mobilization and demobilization…
The Bank of Israel on Monday named Lena Krupalnik, a veteran institutional investment manager, to oversee the country's sovereign wealth fund which was set up in 2014 following the discovery of huge [offshore] natural gas deposits.After a four…
Colombia's majority state-owned oil company Ecopetrol will use new technology, including artificial intelligence, to improve exploration success rates and boost output from existing fields, new Chief Executive Ricardo Roa said on Monday.Roa…
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