Offshore Renewables – Page 4
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NewsCanada seeks European expertise on offshore wind drive
Canada will turn to Europe in its drive to unlock offshore wind potential, the government has said.
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NewsNo bids received in German offshore wind auction
Germany’s second offshore wind auction for 2025 has failed to attract a single bid.
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NewsOil giant BP enters offshore wind JV despite ‘reset’
Oil giant BP has finalised a joint venture in offshore wind, despite announcing cutbacks from renewables just 6 months ago.
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NewsRWE signs long-term agreements with North Star for 2+2 SOVs
German energy firm RWE has contracted two of North Star’s SOVs for up to 12 years with another two newbuilds planned in a few years’ time.
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News54m jacket towed out to Atlantic coast
A substation jacket for the Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm has been installed off the French Atlantic coast after an impressive navigation underneath a 100-year-old bridge.
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NewsUlstein converts wind vessel for oil and gas
Shipbuilder Ulstein will convert an existing Commissioning Service Operation Vessel into a Walk-to-Work vessel for unmanned production platform on the Norwegian continental shelf, it says.
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NewsFloating wind takes pride of place in Gulf of Lion
Ocean Winds and partner Banque des Territoires have installed the first of three floating wind turbines that they say are the most powerful floating turbines in the world.
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NewsFirst Jones Act-compliant cable layer deal agreed
The first US-flagged cable-lay barge to connect offshore wind farms to the US grid will be built by the new partnership of Nexans and Crowley Wind Services.
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NewsCanada dives into offshore wind with first areas designated
The Canadian government has selected the first four areas for offshore wind development in the east coastal province of Nova Scotia with a target to license 5GW by 2030.
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News‘World’s largest’ wind farm approved despite bird death fears
The latest ‘world’s largest offshore wind farm’ has been given the green light in the UK despite a number of wildlife agencies raising concerns about the developer’s own estimates that thousands of sea birds that could be slaughtered once commissioned.
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NewsTrump vetoes “unreliable” and “foreign” energy
The US Trump Administration has effectively ended any preferential treatment for what it calls unreliable subsidy-dependent renewables
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NewsNew carbon rules threaten UK offshore edge
The UK’s early move to expand the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) to offshore vessels could raise UK port costs
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NewsInstallation deal signals untapped Baltic Sea potential
The Norwegian offshore wind transporter and installer Fred. Olsen Windcarrier will transport and install 63 wind turbines for the Gennaker wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.
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NewsMitsui acquires Scottish offshore renewables port
The deal sees Mitsui & Co. Europe Ltd and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd acquire 100% of The Port of Nigg
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NewsInyanga’s cutting-edge vessel for offshore ops
Inyanga Marine Energy Group has announced it is taking over the joint operational management of the newly built hybrid utility vessel Tor Boreas, in partnership with Tor Group.
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NewsAI powers predictive CTV maintenance
The Enhance Vessel AI project aims to develop an intelligent predictive maintenance tool for CTVs
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NewsMenck secures Hornsea pile-driving contract
Menck is to supply its MHU4400S hydraulic hammer for pile-driving at Hornsea 3
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NewsWind, water and nuclear – Vattenfall on top of the new energy tide
One of the world’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind farms has been approved, Vattenfall reveals in its report on the first half of 2025.
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NewsTackling offshore wind cable maintenance costs
A new project focuses on the performance and repair of dynamic cables and mooring lines
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NewsBibby lays keel for first zero-emissions CSOV
Bibby Marine has laid the keel for a hybrid methanol-battery powered Commissioning Service Operations Vessel for offshore wind industry deployment.
