Hutchinson to Provide Platforms for Hornsea 2
Offshore wind specialists, EEW Group has contracted has contracted UK outfit Hutchinson Engineering for the fabrication and on-site assembly of 30 suspended internal platforms (SIPs) for Orsted's 1386MW Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm off eastern England.The SIPs are highly complex steel components, each weighing 10 tonnes and towering 12m high, that will be suspended inside the bright yellow transition pieces, which form part…
Subsidy-Reliant Offshore Wind Takes Cue from Big Oil
From a helicopter, it looks like just another North Sea oil rig, a grey cube supported by massive yellow pillars, 90 kilometres (56 miles) off western Denmark. But the DanTysk facility is the world's first accommodation platform for offshore wind, which is borrowing techniques and labour from the crisis-hit oil sector as it tries to cut costs and end an addiction to state subsidies. The wind industry is moving further offshore…
UK's Coryton Oil Storage Project Put on Ice
The development of a new oil product storage facility on the site of the shuttered Coryton refinery in eastern England has been paused with no new timetable provided, the site's operator said on Thursday. The Thames Oilport project, a joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell, Greenergy and Vopak aimed at storing mostly diesel and gasoline, was originally planned to open at the end of 2013, but there have been repeated delays due to technical problems.
Masdar Buys Stake in British Offshore Wind Project
United Arab Emirates' renewable energy company Masdar has acquired a 35 percent stake in a 1.5 billion pound ($2.5 billion) offshore wind project in eastern England, the company said on Wednesday, expanding its presence in Britain. Masdar bought the 525 million pound stake in the 402 megawatt (MW) project from Norway's Statoil, which will remain the operator and retain a 35 percent share, Masdar said in a statement. The remaining 30 percent is held by Norwegian renewable energy company Statkraft.
