Inside the Red-Hot Offshore Wind Energy Market
As the traditional offshore oil and gas markets continue to struggle, the renewable offshore wind market is hot and getting hotter.As the cumulative maritime, offshore, port and logistics marketplace gears up for offshore wind energy on a huge scale, World Energy Reports (WER), in its report “2021 The Year When Offshore Wind Takes Off in the United States…
Orsted's Offshore Wind Power Profits Breeze Ahead
Danish wind power giant Orsted sees surge in earnings from offshore wind, driving interim profits up 14 percent and earnings up 32 percent for the first nine months of 2018.The world’s largest wind farm operator, formerly known as Dong Energy said that the positive results are due to its transition…
Rovco Wins Gwynt y Môr Windfarm Contract
Rovco has been awarded a three-year contract to support one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, Gwynt y Môr, eight miles off the coast of North Wales in the U.K. The U.K. subsea company said it will provide its underwater ROV 3D visual survey solution, alongside traditional video, blueview sonar and cathodic protection analysis techniques.
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…
Drones to Perform Aerial Wind Farm Inspections
ABS Group signs agreement with DroneView Technologies to inspect aerial wind turbines; drone wind turbine inspections provide a safer, cost-effective and data-driven solution. ABS Group, a provider of technical inspection and verification services to the global power and wind energy industries, said…
Jee Evaluates Array Cable Risk in UK
Jee Ltd, a subsea cable specialist engineering company, has completed a project for a wind farm operator to assess the risks to the array cables within a UK offshore wind farm. With concerns about the integrity of cables on the wind farm, the operator awarded Jee a contract in March 2016 to compile…
Offshore Tests Prove Thunderstorm Detector’s Efficiency
Meteorological product specialist Biral has created a solution that aims to improve the safety of offshore operations since introducing its BTD-300 Thunderstorm Detection equipment. The detector can be used across multiple industries and has proved to be a particularly effective device for offshore operations as confirmed by the results of a North Sea application…
Dudgeon Begins Welcoming Maintenance Personnel
The Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm project is now welcoming its first ten operations and maintenance (O&M) personnel onto the site at Berth 9 on the River Yare within the port of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. The team will work out of temporary office accommodation while work progresses to complete the…
Infigen Energy Mulls Shedding U.S. Wind Farms
Australia under pressure to fix renewable energy target deadlock; 45 wind farm projects stalled. Australian wind farm operator Infigen Energy Ltd is exploring the sale of 18 U.S. wind farms, worth about A$500 million ($409 million), so they escape impact from the uncertain future of Australian state rebates for renewable energy firms.
Wind Farm Operator Theolia to Refinance Bond
French wind farm operator Theolia said it was looking at several options to refinance a 126 million euro ($174.2 million) convertible bond, which it would be unable to cover in full at the next repayment date. Theolia said in a statement on Thursday that if all the holders of its outstanding convertible bonds were to ask for early repayment by Jan.
