Rem Offshore have ordered up to four CSOVs, but it doesn’t say who the charterer will be or what windfarm they will be for. Maybe they have no potential charter yet and they are hoping that the fact they are already building the will help them win a contract.
Norway’s Rem Offshore and Fincantieri’s subsidiary Vard have signed contracts for the design and construction of up to four construction service operations vessels (CSOVs) tailor-made for services and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The firm...
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August 18, 2021, 11:39am
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Odfjell Oceanwind has been awarded a NOK10m ($1.13m) pre-project grant from Norway’s Enova for maturing its first commercial contracts for mobile offshore wind units (MOWUs) and WindGrid for electrification of oil and gas installations on the...
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PS> Maybe some of the surplus Semisub drilling rigs could find a new market?
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August 30, 2021, 2:59pm
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DNV updates standard for floating wind turbine structures to allow for cost reduction and optimization:
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September 1, 2021, 1:00pm
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OHT is to combine with Subsea 7’s renewables business to former Subsea 7 ASA from 1 October, subject to final approvals.
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September 3, 2021, 12:33pm
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Subsea 7 has announced the proposed executive team for Seaway 7, the company resulting from the planned combination of its renewables business with Norwegian heavy lift and offshore wind installation vessel player OHT. Seaway 7 will be led by Stuart...
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More consolidation and JVs in the offshore Wind industry:
Dutch offshore construction player Heerema Marine Contractors has teamed up with Japan’s Shimizu Corporation for the Japanese offshore wind market. The cooperation is primarily focused on installing turbine foundations, where Heerema will support...
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September 9, 2021, 1:37pm
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One more argument against offshore wind disappear (??):
Wind turbine manufacturing giant Siemens Gamesa has launched the world’s first recyclable wind turbine blades ready for commercial use offshore. Many components of a wind turbine, such as the tower and nacelle components, have established recycling...
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September 10, 2021, 12:46pm
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No subsidies require:
RWE Renewables and EDF Renewables have been awarded rights for three areas in the German offshore wind tender to develop projects of up to around 958 MW total capacity at zero subsidy. Germany’s RWE has won licences to build two wind farms, a 225 MW...
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Spreading their wings (or blades) to new markets:
Ørsted and Vietnamese cross-industry company T&T Group have launched a strategic collaboration on offshore wind in Vietnam. The collaboration between Ørsted and T&T brings together a multi-GW pipeline of greenfield offshore wind projects...
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September 17, 2021, 9:18pm
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Fishing interests worldwide complain that wind turbines, whether fixed or floating, take too much sea acreage and hinder effective fishing operations.
Now there is a company that is introducing a new type of floating wind mills that can produce more power while occupying less area:
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September 20, 2021, 8:23pm
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The last of 90 turbines has been installed at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm located off the coast of Lincolnshire: UK:
Once completed, it will be capable of generating enough green electricity to power the equivalent of more than 800,000 homes in the UK
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