JULY 26, 2012 — Samsung Heavy Industries reports that its Geoje, South Korea, shipyard has delivered Pacific Orca, the world’s largest wind farm installation vessel, to Singapore based Swire Pacific Offshore. Swire
Sauter Carbon Offset Designs (SCOD) has developed a design for what Richard Sauter calls an “presents the ultra green homeland security vessel that’s tough on the bad guys, but kind to the
Denmark’s A2SEA (owned 51 percent by DONG Energy and 49 percent by Siemens Wind Power) has signed a contract with Chinese shibuilder COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd., for the construction of a
Austal is to build a fourth wind farm support vessel for U.K.-based Turbine Transfers Limited. The order is the first for a new Austal design that will enable safer and more efficient
The Executive Control Board of the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) has awarded funding for five new research and development projects to continue the program’s mission to reduce the costs associated with
As part of the “Smart from the Start” offshore wind energy initiative to speed siting, leasing and construction of new offshore wind projects, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of
One of the largest offshore wind farms in the world will be developed in the Irish Sea under partnership between DONG Energy and ScottishPower Renewables. The West of Duddon Sands offshore wind
Naples, Italy, based shipyard Cantieri Navali Megaride has commissioned Siemens to equip an ocean-going supply vessel for the Italian Coast Guard with the diesel-electric EcoProp hybrid propulsion system. This propulsion solution has
The Cape Wind project is another step nearer to getting its Nantucket Sound offshore wind farm project into the construction phase. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said yesterday that BOEMRE has
Fishermen’s Energy reports that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJ DEP”) has issued the major environmental permits to build its demonstration-scale six turbine Fishermen’s Atlantic City Windfarm to be located
