Gazelle platform is a hybrid of semi-submersible and tension leg platform designs.

Floating wind innovator opens U.S. office

Dublin, Ireland-based floating offshore wind system specialist Gazelle Wind Power is opening a U.S. office in Austin, Texas. The company claims to have “reinvented the floating wind platform to be lighter, flexible,

Vestas wind turbines

Empire Offshore Wind selects giant 15 MW Vestas turbines for two NY wind farms

Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and BP, has selected Vestas as its preferred supplier for wind turbine generators for both the Empire Wind I and Empire Wind II wind

Wind turbine close up

Vineyard Wind firms up order for giant turbines

GE Renewable Energy reports that it has received an order from Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, to supply Haliade-X turbines for Vineyard Wind 1, the

Van Oord WTIV

Van Oord orders mega WTIV

Gearing up for ever larger wind turbines and with global offshore wind farm development plans surging, Rotterdam-headquartered Van Oord has placed an order with the Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard in China for

Two windturbine installation vessels

NOV to supply designs, jacking systems for Cadeler X-Class WTIVs

Houston headquartered NOV Inc. (NYSE: NOV) reports that it has signed a contract with shipbuilder COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry and Copenhagen, Denmark-headquartered Cadeler (OSE: CADLR) to supply the designs for two GustoMSC

Dominion Energy's Charybdis promises big capabilities but represents a $500 million investment.

Offshore vessel construction: Waiting on the wind

Other Options Houston-headquartered Friede & Goldman Ltd (F&G), long a leader in jack-up technology, has come up with a couple of Jones Act-compliant solutions that are not based on based on the

When completed, the Galveston Wharves 70-acre West Port Cargo Complex will include an additional 20 waterfront acres, 2,000 linear feet of docking space, and a rail spur

Galveston Wharves marks master plan milestone

Galveston Wharves has completed a $2 million infrastructure improvement project at its West Port Cargo Complex to accommodate large roll-on/roll-off construction and farming equipment. In June the port moved its major RO/RO

A solution proposed by Friede & Goldman and Tetrahedron would use a small jack-up with a big crane fed with components by standard Jones Act barges.

Will California open up the Golden Gate for floaters?

U.S. offshore wind development is picking up pace, with the Biden administration doing everything open to it to remove kinks from the regulatory pipeline. With multiple Atlantic Coast projects moving along, the

BM Feeder on barge

Barge Master offers Jones Act WTIV feedering solution

Rotterdam, Netherlands, headquartered motion compensation specialist Barge Master BV has developed a solution for Jones Act compliant feedering of Wind Turbine Installation Vessels (WTIVs). Barge Master’s BM-Feeder is a new motion compensated

GE Haliade-X wind turine

Vineyard Wind project takes a big step forward

In what Liz Burdock, president and CEO of the Business Network for Offshore Wind calls “the day the U.S. offshore wind industry has been anxiously awaiting for years,” the Department of the

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