Wind Server gets its legs at Nordic Yards
MAY 20, 2014 — The fourth of four jack-up legs was today settled into its jacking position on an offshore wind turbine vessel under construction at the Wismar, Rostock-Warnemünde, shipyard of Germany’s
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Three U.S. offshore wind projects get DOE funding
MAY 9, 2014 — The U.S. Department of Energy has selected of three pioneering offshore wind demonstrations to receive up to $47 million each over the next four years to deploy innovative,
CTruk bonds with Crestomer
MAY 7, 2014 — CTruk Boats Ltd., Brightlingsea, Essex, U.K., is using Scott Bader’s Crystic Crestomer 1152PA urethane acrylate structural adhesive, for all FRP bonding in the multi-purpose composite marine craft that
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
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