iPS鈥 Nick Spies. Demand for qualified and experienced personnel is strong on a global basis鈥攅specially in offshore renewables. The industry is relatively new and it has also鈥
Frank Verhoeven Boskalis is eyeing an increasing role in offshore oil and gas and renewables projects鈥攊ncluding the potential to dry dock floating production vessels at sea. Elaine Maslin found out more鈥
Westermeerwind BV reached financial close on 25 July for the turnkey construction of the Westermeerwind wind farm in IJsselmeer, Netherlands. Work can now start on building the 48 wind turbines. The Westermeerwind wind farm consists of鈥
The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) conducted tests to validate and subsequently approved Mitsubishi Electric鈥檚 compact wind lidar as complying with European wind measurement standards. The lidar (portmanteau of 鈥渓ight鈥濃
DONG Energy, Denmark's largest energy company, has awarded three contracts to civil engineering group WSP for design work on the onshore substations for three offshore wind farms. WSP says detailed design on the projects is now underway鈥
Former SSE utility boss Ian Marchant has joined tidal energy firm Nova Innovation as its chairman. Marchant was chief executive of SSE, a large UK-based utility company, for 10 years, before standing down in 2013. Earlier this year鈥
The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) issued a notice yesterday containing updated requirements for emergency response cooperation plans and requirements for emergency response and search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopter operations relating to offshore renewable energy installations (OREIs)鈥
Heriot-Watt University's Edinburgh Campus has ordered an ASV C-Enduro. The C-Enduro Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) will be used for research in persistent and long-term autonomy with multiple remote and autonomous marine platforms. The鈥
Van Oord鈥檚 new DP2 cable-laying vessel Nexus was successfully launched at Damen Shipyards in Galati, Romania on 30 June 2014. The 123m multipurpose vessel will be deployed installing electrical cables for offshore wind farms. With a beam of almost 28m and a dynamic positioning system鈥
The Energy Industries Council (EIC) announced today that Azman Nasir is to become the EIC鈥檚 new Head of Asia Pacific. Azman, who has 24 years鈥 experience in the transport, railway, oil & gas and marine industry sectors, will be based鈥
Aibel announced it has secured a contract from Statoil for FEED and Engineering & Management Assistance (EMA) of substructures for the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park offshore wind farm. The contract has an estimated value of approximately NOK$40 million鈥
North-England based Osbit Power (OP) has supplied a bespoke cable handling system to Technip 云顶赌场老虎机 Wind, to support Technip's cable installation operations at Dong Energy鈥檚 Westermost Rough offshore wind farm. Osbit says the modular鈥
Statoil and Statkraft have given the final investment decision for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm off the coast of Norfolk, UK. The project aims for full production in late 2017. When completed, Dudgeon will provide renewable energy for up to 410鈥
Core Grouting Services, an Acteon company, has successfully commissioned a new high volume, high strength grout mixing and pumping unit. The equipment is specifically designed for mixing and pumping high strength grout with a compressive strength of >100 MPa鈥
Dubai-based Drydocks World has completed the HVDC converter platform DolWin beta (pictured), described as the world鈥檚 largest in terms of capacity. The platform is one of the main components of TenneT's 900 MW DC offshore grid connection DolWin2鈥
