Ocean Winds has awarded DEME Offshore the foundation installation contract for the Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland.
DEME’s scope will include the installation of monopile foundations and transition pieces using its vessels Orion and Apollo.
Work is expected to be carried out in 2023-2024. According to DEME, the project will be the first time oversized monopiles will be installed during the winter period.
The biggest, heaviest, and most delicate lifts in Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) development are not the components for the 176 wind turbines, but the three 4,000-ton (3,629-tonne) offshore substations.
The heavy lift and offshore installation vessel Green Jade has officially joined the DEME fleet. The moment was marked with a naming ceremony held at the Kaohsiung shipyard in Taiwan.
DEME has signed a contract with the port of Thyboron that will see the Danish port support the installation of foundations for Vattenfall’s Vesterhav Nord and Syd offshore wind farms.
UK-based Tugdock has been awarded a ‘Statement of Feasibility’ from DNV for its Tugdock Submersible Platform (TSP).
Drydocks World, in partnership with GE Vernova, will build and install Ostwind 4 – a 2 GW offshore wind grid connection in Germany.
General cargo volumes have dipped 3 percent year-to-date at Port Houston’s multipurpose facilities. However, steel imports increased 34 percent in November.
