Nov 12, 2014   + + +  TÜV SÜD will accompany the construction of the new "Sandbank" offshore wind farm located around 90 km off the island of Sylt, providing manufacturing inspection and quality assurance services for the project. The international testing and certification company has won the contract for the certification of the implementation phase, involving production monitoring according to the BSH standard. Within the scope of the contract, TÜV SÜD's offshore wind professionals will inspect the foundations, the wind turbines, the sub-stations and the internal cabling at the wind farm .....

2014, Nov 04   + + +   As a manufacturer of switchgear for extreme and complex applications, steute provides customers with its own range of offshore products especially developed for use in offshore, ship and port technology. Features of our devices include saltwater resistance, a robust construction, the necessary approvals and - where appropriate - Ex-Versions ....

Oct. 07, 2014   + + +   Real-time metocean data transmitted by a Fugro SEAWATCH Wavescan buoy is enabling Technip to plan its operations more effectively for its largest UK North Sea contract to date. Located in the west of Shetland area, BP’s Quad 204 project involves replacing the existing Schiehallion production facility with a new, purpose-built FPSO and installing extensive new subsea infrastructure ....

Alstom improves performance of its tidal energy solutions

Oct. 1, 2014     + + +    Alstom has taken advantage of its experience with the 1 MW turbine to improve the design of its tidal stream turbine ... and now offers the Oceade™ 18 - 1.4 MW, making the turbine even more efficient, cost-effective and easy to maintain. With a rotor diameter of 18 metres, the Oceade tidal stream turbine has a nominal power of 1.4MW and three variable pitching blades. It is equipped with plug-and-play modules on rails, easily accessible through an inspection hatch at the rear of the nacelle to enable faster assembly and maintenance ... 

Sept. 26, 2014   + + +   Siemens officially opened the new remote diagnostics center for wind turbines, located at the company's global headquarters for wind service in Brande. The facility offers some of the most advanced wind turbine remote diagnostic and monitoring capabilities in the world and has been designed to accommodate the continued and rapid growth of Siemens wind service. It currently hosts diagnostic operations and monitoring services for more than 7,500 installed Siemens wind turbines worldwide to proactively keep the units operating at their optimum levels of performance . . .

Sept. 04, 2014 + + + Siemens has received an order for the turnkey delivery of the grid connection for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm. The customers are the Norwegian utilities Statoil and Statkraft, which are jointly implementing the wind farm off the coast of the U.K. Siemens will supply the entire power transmission system, including the two transformer substations – one onshore and one offshore – for the 402-megawatt (MW) project. Siemens had previously received an order in August to deliver 67 wind turbines in the new 6-MW class as well as to maintain the wind farm. The grid connection is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016, and the installation of the wind turbines is expected to begin in early 2017. With a transmission capacity of 402 MW, Dudgeon will supply climate-friendly energy for over 410,000 British homes ....

August 21, 2014  + + +  ABB has announced a breakthrough in cable technology. It has successfully developed and tested a 525 kilovolt (kV) extruded high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable system to make renewable energy installations more efficient and cost-effective. This latest innovation will more than double the power capacity to about 2,600 megawatts (MW) from 1,000 MW. It will also expand the cable's reach to distances of 1,500 kilometers, up from less than 1,000 kilometers, while keeping transmission losses under 5 percent. The new cable offers a 64 percent increase over 320 kV, currently the highest voltage deployed for this type of technology. The 525kV cable system can be deployed in subsea and underground applications ...

August 21, 2014 + + + Siemens Energy has received an order from the Norwegian energy utilities Statoil and Statkraft for the "Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm" in the UK. Siemens will manufacture, deliver, install and commission 67 Siemens direct-drive wind turbines rated at 6 megawatts (MW) each and equipped with a 154-meter rotor. Installation will start in early 2017. The combined value including a five-year-service contract is approximately GBP 500 million – nearly 650 million Euros ....

ABB to provide UK grid connection
for Europe’s largest tidal energy project

August 14, 2014  + + +  Sandbank is a joint partnership of Vattenfall (51 percent) and the city of Munich's public utility company (49 percent). The foundation elements will be installed in the seabed with the help of an installation ship in waters that are up to 34 meters deep and 90 kilometers west of Sylt in the German North Sea. The contract has a volume of more than €100 million. Work has already begun and will continue until February 2016. The Hydro Sound Damper, a sound protection system that Bilfinger played a key role in developing, is being used at the Sandbank Offshore Windpark. The system helps to reduce the noise pollution that marine fauna is exposed to during the construction phase ...

August 11, 2014   + + +  Vattenfall has awarded Siemens Energy an order for 72 Model SWT-4.0-130 wind turbines for its new Sandbank offshore wind farm (1). The project is being erected 90 kilometers west of the island of Sylt in water depths between 25 and 37 meters within the exclusive economic zone off the German North Sea coast. A pioneering service plan for the project will generate synergy from its close vicinity to DanTysk offshore wind farm ...

July 28, 2014   + + +   Siemens Energy has received an order for the Netherlands’ largest near shore wind farm. Designed to generate 144 megawatts (MW) of wind power, the Westermeerwind project with 48 direct drive wind turbines is also the first wind power plant Siemens Wind Power’s Offshore unit will erect for handover to the customer on a turnkey basis. Within the framework of a 15-year comprehensive maintenance contract, the owner will benefit from Siemens’ guaranteed availability ... more

July 24, 2014 + + + Siemens Energy has obtained type certification by certifying body DNV GL for the company’s innovative D6 offshore wind turbine. The model Siemens SWT-6.0-154 is equipped with a modern direct drive generator, rated at 6 megawatts (MW) and equipped with a 154 meter rotor. The official certificate is a further step in ramping up the serial production of the turbine  ... more

July 21 2014  + + +  Siemens has installed a fourth offshore platform in the North Sea, completing an important stage for grid connections of sea-based wind farms. This is the platform for the SylWin1 DC link, which is the most powerful of the four offshore wind power grid connections contracted to Siemens by the German-Dutch transmission grid operator TenneT between 2010 and 2011 ... more 

July 7, 2014   + + +  Last week marked the end of yet another successful project at Bladt Industries, as the Bladt team completed the load out of the Nordsee Ost substation. The substation is now on the barge, where it will undergo measures to secure sea fastening before it makes its journey to the final destination in the German North Sea. The 1900 tonnes substation, which Bladt Industries fabricated for the German utility company RWE, is the 13th substation fabricated by Bladt Industries . . .

July 19, 2014   + + +   The next generation of offshore wind power plants will be located farther from shore and will require a unique and flexible logistics solution for efficient service and maintenance. As part of a new and unique integrated concept, the new Service Operation Vessel (SOV) will help to address these challenges and will set a new standard in offshore service operations. Siemens will be the first to provide this multi-faceted offshore logistics concept and will introduce the first purpose-built SOV in 2015 ...

July 7, 2014   + + +   SCF Group (Sovcomflot) and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy) have signed a contract for the construction and long-term operation of three multifunctional icebreaking standby vessels to serve the Sakhalin-2 offshore energy platforms. The contract covers a 20 year term, during which the vessels will provide safe and reliable services for Sakhalin Energy’s platforms in the Sea of Okhotsk. The vessels will also assist with accommodation of the offshore facilities personnel. In an emergency, the vessels will help evacuate personnel from the offshore platforms and will provide oil spill response services when necessary ...

May 20, 2014   + + +   Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded by 50Hertz Offshore GmbH a subsidiary of 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, operator of transmission grids in Germany a new contract worth approximately up to 730 million Euros (including options for grid connections in value of approximately 250 M Euros) to design, produce and install the power cable systems for the offshore wind park cluster West of Adlergrund in the German Baltic Sea ...

May 02, 2014  + + +  E.ON’s construction of Amrumbank West wind farm in the North Sea reached an important milestone. The offshore transformer station is now in place. The largest single technical component of the billion-euro project weighs approximately 3,000 metric tons. It consists of a foundation anchored to the seafloor and a topside structure housing transformers and electrical switching equipment ...

April 30, 2014 + + + OVERDICK is proud to announce that the BorWin beta topsides has been successfully installed in the German sector of the North Sea. The BorWin beta platform accommodates the Siemens electrical plant for transmitting 800 MW of energy generated by the wind park Global Tech 1 into the electric power grid. OVERDICK conducted the overall design, structural design as well as transport and installation engineering on behalf of the general contractor Siemens ...

The Kaombo development scheme includes 59 subsea wells, connected through around 300 km of  subsea lines, to two floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels, each with a production capacity of 115,000 barrels per day. More about Kaombo activities by Saipem, Technip, Heerema, and Aker Solutions ...

April 18, 2014  + + +   ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $40 million from Energinet.dk, the Danish transmission system operator, to build an alternating-current (AC) power cable system that will help integrate and transmit power from the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm. The new Horns Rev 3 wind farm is located in the North Sea, about 30 kilometers (km) off the western-most point of Denmark, Blåvands Huk. Once completed, the 400 megawatt (MW) wind farm will have the capacity to supply electricity to around 400,000 local households.

Aker Solutions wins subsea production system contract
for offshore Angola

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April 15, 2014  + + +  Aker Solutions won a contract worth NOK 14 billion from Total to provide a subsea production system for the Kaombo Block 32 development in Angola. Aker Solutions will deliver 20 subsea manifolds and 65 vertical subsea wellsets. The order also includes associated controls as well as work-over and tie-in systems. The first deliveries are scheduled for the second quarter of 2015.  Kaombo, one of the world's largest subsea developments, is located in block 32 about 150 kilometers off the coast of Angola ...

Siemens receives major order for BorWin3 North Sea grid connection from TenneT

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April 15, 2014  + + +  Siemens receives an order from TenneT for an offshore wind farm grid connection in the North Sea. In a consortium with Petrofac Siemens will supply the complete technology for efficient direct-current transmission for the BorWin3 grid connection as the consortium leader. The consortium partner Petrofac, with over 30 years of experience as a leading EPC contractor to the international oil and gas industry, will be responsible for the construction and offshore installation of the project's platform. Supply and laying of the cables was tendered separately by TenneT and is therefore not part of the consortium's scope of supply ...

E.ON utilises new offshore installation support vessel
'Siem Moxie' christened in Hamburg

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April 10, 2014  + + +  The new installation support vessel of Norwegian marine operator Siem Offshore was christened “Siem Moxie” at the naming ceremony today at the port of Hamburg. E.ON is taking over the patronage of the ship. The “Siem Moxie” will be deployed on E.ON’s Amrumbank West offshore wind farm project by Siem Offshore Contractors for the installation of the inner array grid submarine cable system. It will be the vessel's first area of operation ...

March 31, 2014   + + +  Marine Current Turbines Ltd. (MCT), a Siemens company, and Bluewater Energy Services B.V. have agreed to jointly develop a 2 megawatt floating tidal current turbine, called SeaGen F. This turbine will be the first of its kind to be installed in Canada’s Bay of Fundy, in cooperation with Nova Scotian project developer Minas Energy. The turbines will produce enough clean and reliable energy to supply up to 1,800 Nova Scotian households ...

March 24, 2014   + + +  Last October, DeepOcean agreed upon a five-and-a-half-year charter for a newbuild subsea umbilical, riser, and flowline (SURF) installation vessel owned by Østensjø Rederi and of the SALT 304 design. The charter starts in March 2016. DeepOcean is targeting the vessel at projects in the greater North Sea area. DeepOcean recognized a growing trend toward subsea tiebacks and replacement and rejuvenation projects in the North Sea area, and a need to invest in more capable offshore construction assets as subsea infrastructure becomes more complex, larger, and heavier. The company is already performing survey works, pipeline trenching, and light construction for companies such as Statoil and BP ...

March 25, 2013  + + +   Siemens is investing more than EUR190 million (GBP160 million) in new offshore production facilities in Great Britain. Production of rotor blades for offshore wind turbines of the 6-megawatt class is planned, with a new logistics- and service centre slated for Hull ...

March 14, 2014   + + +  On behalf of Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. (HHI), the largest shipyard in the world located in Ulsan, South Korea, the Siemens Drive Technologies Division is supplying an integrated drive and power generation solution for a multipurpose offshore construction vessel (MOCV). This MOCV is currently being built by HHI for Toisa Ltd. and will be managed by Sealion Shipping Ltd ...

March 14, 2014   + + + All foundations of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm have been successfully installed some 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland. A total of 48 jacket foundations were installed for the wind turbines and one for the substation in water up to 25 metres deep. Each of the foundations for the wind turbines is approx. 50 metres high with a weight of some 550 tons. The heavy-duty crane of RWE's own installation vessel "Victoria Mathias“ ...  

March 10, 2014   + + +  For wreck removal, security and waterway maintenance, the Dutch Government chose the Saab Seaeye Panther XT Plus as the best ROV on the market. This followed a year-long evaluation of all key ROV manufacturers using European Union tendering rules. Subsea operator Bluestream, drove the bid and have gone on to boost their existing fleet to 16 Saab Seaeye vehicles with the purchase of their own two Panther XT Plus, along with three additional Tigers, in an ROV investment plan for 2014 worth over £4million ...

Feb 17, 2014  + + +  For development of two huge offshore gas fields in the Gulf, 40 process diaphragm pumps were ordered from the German company Lewa GmbH. The order, valued at about 40 million Dollar, is the largest to date in the history of the company. Once the project is completed on schedule in 2015, the Gulf facility will be the largest of its kind in Saudi Arabia: It will be capable of processing 70 million m³ of ethane, propane, butane, and natural gas per day from the two offshore fields ...