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NOC Completes Scottish Roadmap for Offshore Wind Environmental Monitoring

Feb 26, 2025

The UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has delivered a roadmap to guide the observation of ocean to increase the understanding of the potential impacts of expanding offshore wind developments on the marine environment.The Scoping an Offshore…

First Steel Cut for North Star’s Hybrid-Electric SOV for EnBW

Feb 26, 2025

North Star and its shipbuilding partner Cochin Shipyard have cut first steel on EnBW’s new hybrid-electric service operations vessel (SOV), which is on decade-long minimum charter to service the He Dreiht wind farm off the coast of Germany from the end of 2026…

Siemens Hires Pfisterer for DolWin4 and BorWin4 Grid Connection Cable Package

Feb 26, 2025

Germany-based electrical connection technology supplier Pfisterer has secured a contract from Siemens Energy to provide turnkey cable systems for the BorWin4 and DolWin4 offshore grid connections.The two platforms will enable the transmission of offshore wind energy to the German mainland…

CIP Acquires 480MW Morecambe Offshore Wind Farm in UK

Feb 26, 2025

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), on behalf of its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V), has signed a transaction to acquire the full ownership of Morecambe offshore wind project from COBRA Group, and Flotation Energy, owned by TEPCO Renewable Power…

Green Marine UK Bolsters Subsea Services Unit with Major Investment

Feb 25, 2025

Orkney-based marine services firm Green Marine UK has announced a seven-figure capital investment in a new Subsea Services Department targeting the U.K.’s offshore wind sector.The company expansion, boosted by financial backing from HIE (Highlands and Islands Enterprise)…

BP to Scrap Renewables Targets as it Shifts Back to Fossil Fuels

Feb 24, 2025

BP's chief executive will scrap a target to increase renewable generation 20-fold by 2030, returning the focus to fossil fuels, as part of a strategy shift announced on Wednesday to tackle investor concerns over earnings, two sources told Reuters…

BS Offshore, Ulstein Verft Launch CSOV Newbuild (Photos)

Feb 24, 2025

Germany-based Bernhard Schulte Offshore (BS Offshore) and Ulstein Verft have launched a new Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV), the Yno 320.The launch followed an extensive outfitting phase that included the installation of electrical and mechanical systems…

Van Oord, Ecowende to Enhance Biodiversity Hollandse Kust West Wind Farm

Feb 24, 2025

Van Oord and Ecowende have signed a contract for the design, construction and installation of tree reefs and oyster hubs at Ecowende’s Hollandse Kust West wind farm (HKW, site VI) in the North Sea.According to Van Oord, this is the first time…

Italy’s Saipem and Norway’s Subsea7 Merger to Create Energy Services Giant

Feb 24, 2025

Energy services firms Saipem and Subsea7 have reached an agreement on the key terms for possible merger of the two companies under one unit to be named Saipem7, whose combined backlog would be over $45 billion.Saipem and Subsea7 shareholders…

Spain to Open First Offshore Wind Tender Later in 2025

Feb 21, 2025

Spain will launch its first tender for offshore wind farms later this year, Energy Minister Sara Aagesen said on Friday.She added that her government will raise the amount of investment allowed in power grids, currently capped to limit electricity costs for consumers…

France’s EDF Reports $944M Impairment on US Offshore Wind Project

Feb 21, 2025

State-owned French power giant EDF is taking a 900 million euro ($944.4 million) impairment charge on the Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm project in the United States after partner Shell pulled out of the joint venture.'We have every intention…

First US-Built Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Starts Sea Trials

Feb 20, 2025

The United States' first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Charybdis, has started sea trials ahead of delivery to Dominion Energy planned for later in 2025.The Seatrium AmFELS shipyard in Bronsville, Texas…

Eidesvik, Agalas and Reach Subsea Order New Dual-Fuel Hybrid CSV

Feb 20, 2025

Eidesvik Offshore, Agalas, and Reach Subsea have partnered up to build a new construction support vessel (CSV) for subsea and offshore renewables operations.The new CSV will have similar specifications as the vessel Eidesvik currently has under…

Enefit Green, Sumitomo Partner Up to Develop Offshore Wind Farm in Estonia

Feb 19, 2025

Enefit Green and Sumitomo Corporation have signed an agreement which outlines the start of strategic partnership for developing the first offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea.Under the agreement, Enefit Green will sell 50%…

Eurazeo Provides Over $70M for MPC OSE Offshore’s New SOVs

Feb 19, 2025

Investment group Eurazeo has made a $73.1 million investment in MPC OSE Offshore, a joint venture established by MPC Capital and German offshore services firm O.S. Energy, with the aim of building and managing new service operations vessels (SOVs) for offshore wind farms…

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