APRIL 28, 2017 — Paris-headquartered offshore services giant Bourbon has been awarded a contract for the mooring installation of FLOATGEN, the first floating wind turbine in France. Designed by Ideol, it is
APRIL 27, 2016 — Spain’s Gondan Shipbuilders reports that its Figueras, Asturias, shipyard has launched the first offshore wind SOV (Service Operation Vessel) to be built in Spain. The event was attended
APRIL 5, 2017 —Hoofddorp, Netherlands, headquartered C-Job Naval Architects is provide China’s COSCO (Qidong) Offshore shipyard with the basic design package for the Orion, an advanced offshore installation vessel that the yard
MARCH 27, 2017 — Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania, has launched the Bibby WaveMaster 1, the first of Damen’s purpose-built offshore wind Service Operations Vessels (SOV) with Walk-to-Work (W2W) capability,. When completed, Bibby
MARCH 5, 2017 — Norway’s Ulstein Group has delivered the second of two SX 175 design wind farm service vessels built for Hamburg based shipping company Bernhard Schulte and Beijing based financial
FEBRUARY 7, 2017— Ulstein and Rotterdam headquartered offshore consultancy SeaOwls have launched a pioneering heavy-lift jack-up vessel design called SOUL aimed at installing the next generation 10-12 MW offshore wind turbines in
JANUARY 26, 2017 — New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) voted to approve America’s largest offshore wind farm, and
JANUARY 24, 2017 — Norway’s Ulstein Verft AS shipyard will build a DP2 Construction Support Vessel (CSV) for Netherlands based Acta Marine B.V. Primarily aimed at the offshore wind market, the vessel
JANUARY 24, 2017 — Two months ahead of schedule, the first of 67 Siemens 6 MW wind turbines has started started supplying the German electrical grid with energy from the Veja Mate
JANUARY 18, 2017 — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) says that 122,405 acres offshore Kitty Hawk, North Carolina will be offered in a commercial wind lease sale on March 16,