Offshore wind jack-up gets new feet
APRIL 10, 2014 — Damen ARNO Dunkerque, Dunkirk, France, has given the offshore wind turbine installation and maintenance vessel MPI Resolution new “feet.” The shipyard has carried out upgrades on the spudcans
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Wind farm support cats to have Rolls-Royce water jets
MARCH 7, 2014 — Rolls-Royce has secured a contract to supply water jets for three wind farm support vessels to be built by South Boats IOW, Cowes, Isle of Wight, U.K., for
Sure Wind takes delivery of second Damen newbuild
FEBRUARY 27, 2014 — Britain’s Sure Wind Marine Ltd. has taken delivery of its second Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier – the Sure Swift – in a little over a month
Bold Tern to install Block Island wind turbines
FEBRUARY 14, 2014 — Deepwater Wind is to use Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s Maltese-flag jack-up wind farm installation vessel Bold Tern to install five 6 MW wind turbines at the Block Island Wind
Oregon offshore wind project advances
FEBRUARY 6, 2013 — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has given the green light for Principle Power, Inc., Seattle, WA, to submit a formal plan to build a 30- megawatt
Siemens to supply wind turbines for Cape Wind
DECEMBER 24, 2013—Under a recently signed contract with Cape Wind LLC, Siemens will supply the first commercial offshore wind farm in the U.S., with 3.6-megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbines, an offshore Electric
Havyard wins first wind farm service vessel contract
JULY 12, 2013 — Fosnavåg, Norway, based Havyard has signed a contract for design and construction of two Havyard 832 SOVs (Service Operation Vessels) for ESVAGT of Esbjerg, Denmark, which will operate
DNV responds to offshore wind farm trends
JUNE 26, 2013 — Classification society DNV is responding to developments that see offshore wind farms move further offshore and into deeper waters. It has DNV launched a significant revision to its
Seajacks orders world’s largest wind farm installer
JUNE 10, 2013 — Great Yarmouth, U.K., headquartered Seajacks International has entered into a contract with South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries to build what it says will be “the world’s largest
Glosten to develop offshore wind TLP demonstrator for U.K.
MARCH 25, 2013 — A U.K. public-private partnership, the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), has selected Seattle based naval architecture and marine engineering firm The Glosten Associates to design an offshore wind floating