Dogger Bank

VESSELS

VESSELS

North Star has secured a £275 million (€322 million) refinancing package to expand its offshore wind fleet just months after buying four service operation vessels (SOVs).

3rd August 2026

North Star wins £275m finance deal to expand offshore wind fleet

3rd August 2026

VESSELS

VESSELS

Acta Marine has taken delivery of Acta Gemini, a walk-to-work (W2W) DP2 construction service operation vessel (CSOV) built by Tersan Shipyard in Yalova, Turkey.

8th June 2026

Acta Marine takes delivery of ‘methanol-ready’ CSOV

8th June 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Energy giant RWE has said it is disappointed by the UK government’s sudden decision to delay a consent order for the 3GW Dogger Bank South offshore wind farms.

13th January 2026

RWE ‘disappointed’ by UK government Dogger Bank delay

13th January 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

All of the foundations and transition pieces for the world’s largest wind farm have now been installed in the North Sea.

2nd December 2025

All foundations installed at world’s largest offshore wind farm

2nd December 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Drillship contractor Valaris has expanded into offshore wind, providing accommodation support for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm with one of its jack-up rigs.

29th October 2025

Offshore wind turns to oil jack-ups as energy worlds converge

29th October 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Seaway7 says it has installed all 277 monopile foundations at the world’s biggest offshore wind farm – Doggerbank in the UK.

18th September 2025

Final monopile installed at world’s biggest wind farm

18th September 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A seabed lease has been finalised to allow the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank, to be expanded, even though the UK grid cannot cope with existing wind power generation.

28th August 2025

Plans agreed to make world’s biggest OSW farm even bigger

28th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

One of the world’s largest offshore wind farms now has all 100 foundations installed in the North Sea, almost 200km from the UK east coast.

17th July 2025

RWE installs 100th final foundation at Sofia wind farm

17th July 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

As talks of a merger progress between offshore engineering giants Subsea7 and Saipem, Subsea 7 CEO John Evans has given a positive outlook after Q1 2025 results.

30th April 2025

Subsea7 upbeat on wind in lead-up to Saipem merger

30th April 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

North Star has completed its dedicated fleet of four ships to serve the largest offshore wind farm in the world.

3rd February 2025

Last vessel in SOV fleet delivered to Dogger Bank

3rd February 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A cable-monitoring system has been unveiled that identifies transmission failure at an early enough stage that outages can be eliminated, its developer says.

10th December 2024

Cable-detection in pipeline for Dogger Bank

10th December 2024

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Ocean Infinity has been hired by RWE and power company Masdar to perform 3D Ultra High Resolution seismic geophysical surveys for the Dogger Bank South (DBS) West offshore wind farm.  

20th May 2024

Ocean Infinity hired to survey Dogger Bank

20th May 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A Norwegian finance expert reports a new record in loans and guarantees for offshore wind projects worldwide

6th December 2021

Offshore wind finance milestone

6th December 2021