SouthCoast Wind faces new threat
SouthCoast Wind has become just the latest in a string of U.S. offshore wind project under threat from the Trump Administration’s offshore wind policies. The project received its final approval in December
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Cali leaders inject $227.5M into offshore wind port development
The California Legislature recently voted to approve Proposition 4 funding for offshore wind port development in a budget trailer bill that appropriated a total of $3.2 billion to fund key state climate
Revolution Wind and two states file law suits challenging stop-work order
The Trump Administration is now facing two separate legal challenges to last month’s BOEM stop-work order issued to the fully-permitted, 80% complete Revolution Wind project —the-first bistate offshore wind farm. The challenges
Bernard Schulte Offshore takes delivery of its second new Ulstein CSOV: Windea Clausius
Bernhard Schulte Offshore (BSO) has taken delivery of its newest Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) built by Ulstein Verft in Norway. The vessel, named Windea Clausius, was officially christened on September 4
USDOT withdraws $679M of offshore wind project funding
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on Friday withdrew or terminated a total of $679 million in funding for 12 offshore wind projects that Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy characterized as
BOEM orders work stop at Revolution Wind
Ørsted reports that on August 22, its subsidiary, Revolution Wind LLC, a 50/50 joint venture with Global Infrastructure Partner’s Skyborn Renewables, received an order instructing the project to stop activities on the
North Star back at Vard for two new hybrid SOVs
Fincantieri reports that its Norwegian subsidiary Vard has signed a new contract with Aberdeen-headquartered North Star covering the design and construction of two hybrid Service Operation Vessels (SOVs). Fincantieri says the value
Windward Offshore wins its first CSOV contracts
Hamburg-headquartered Windward Offshore reports that it has won its first charter contracts for the two purpose-built Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs), Windward Athens and Windward Paris. For this project, the vessels will
Ulstein to retrofit 2024-built CSOV Olympic Notos for oil and gas contract
Underscoring the flexibility of today’s large offshore service vessels, Ulstein Verft has signed a contract to retrofit a recently delivered offshore wind vessel, the Olympic Notos, for operations supporting unmanned oil and
LD Armateurs SOV duo will have Schottel Rudderpropellers
French shipowner and maritime services provider Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (now LD Armateurs), has selected SchotteL to supply RudderPropellers Dynamic (SRP-D) for two new Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) that will operate for Swedish-headquartered