Van Oord’s brand new cable-laying vessel Calypso has made its official debut by installing cables on its first offshore wind project, RWE’s 1,4 GW Sofia Offshore Wind Farm in UK waters. After the Nexus, the Calypso is Van Oord’s second...
Buss Terminal Eemshaven, part of Hamburg-based Buss Ports, has welcomed the first batch of monopile foundations for RWE ’s offshore wind farm Thor at their base port of Eemshaven in the Netherlands. The first batch comprises eight monopiles. They were...
Energy company RWE announced yesterday that the HVDC Offshore Converter Platform (OCP) for their 1.4 GW Sofia Offshore Wind Farm was successfully installed. The installation was performed by Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir. Heerema won the T&I...
RWE announced today that TotalEnergies will acquire a 50% equity stake in the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. In addition, the two companies have taken the investment decision to build the 795 MW project. The OranjeWind project is...
This weekend, Acta Marine’s new state-of-the-art DP2 Construction Service Operating Vessels (CSOVs) Acta Pegasus and Acta Hercules were launched at Tersan Shipyard in Türkiye. The SX216 design of these walk-to-work vessels has been developed exclusively and in close collaboration with...
Fugro is to return to Community Offshore Wind’s offshore wind lease area in the New York Bight. Following a successful site characterisation programme completed in 2023, Fugro will this time perform a geotechnical investigation. Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture...
A large industry consortium have started a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to make the C1 Wedge Connection by Dutch company C1 Connections, market ready for commercial scale deployment for both Monopile-Transition Piece connections as well as for Foundation to Tower...
Dutch-Norwegian company SolarDuck, with the support of RWE, has successfully installed its offshore floating solar (OFPV) pilot project, Merganser off the Dutch coast at Scheveningen. FLoating solar could be used standalone or in combination with offshore wind. The pilot project...
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus has installed the first of a total of 100 monopile foundations at RWE’s 1.4 GW Sofia Offshore Wind Farm in UK waters. Sofia Offshore Wind Farm is located on Dogger Bank in the central...
Decommissioned: 2024 Location: The wind farm was located along the Volkerak near Dinteloord, Province of Noord-Brabant. Commissioned: 1998 Owner: RWE Turbines: 4 x Vestas 44 turbines with a hub height of 55 meters and a tip height of 77 meters....
