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Austal is to build a fourth wind farm support vessel for U.K.-based Turbine Transfers Limited. The order is the first for a new Austal design that will enable safer and more efficient offshore wind turbine service.The vessel is "notionally valued at GBP 4 million" (about US $6.2 million) and will initially be chartered to Turbine Transfers for a period ...

KV Ventus B.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore's Keppel Corporation Ltd. has entered into an agreement to take a 49.9 percent stake in offshore wind turbine foundation designer OWEC Tower (AS) for about NOK 61 million.OWEC Tower, headquartered in Norway, is a leader in the design and engineering of offshore wind turbine foundations. The company has developed a proprietary ...

Houma, La., based SEACOR Marine LCC reports that it has invested in Windcat Workboats Holdings Ltd, a European operator of wind farm utility vessels. SEACOR Marine, a subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CKH - News), operates a fleet of offshore marine support vessels, serving the offshore oil and gas exploration and production industry worldwide.Based in Holland and ...

J. J. Sietas KG of Hamburg is the first German shipyard to build an installation vessel for the erection of offshore wind farms. Siemens Marine Solutions will supply the ship's diesel-electric propulsion and automation system as well as the medium voltage system for power generation and distribution. The order has a value of several million euros. The speci ...

Seattle based naval architectural and engineering consultancy Glosten Associates, Inc. has announced plans to commercialize its PelaStar floating wind turbine platform, and make the technology available to the offshore wind energy industry within the year. Glosten says the PelaStar platform provides a scalable, integrated blade tip–to–seabed solution that minimizes t ...

The Cape Wind project is another step nearer to getting its Nantucket Sound offshore wind farm project into the construction phase. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said yesterday that BOEMRE has approved a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the facility facility planned in Nantucket Sound. The timeframe reported in the COP submitted by Cape Wind Associa ...

Damen Shipyards, Gorinchem, Netherlands, is currently finalizing the first "Twin Axe" catamaran designed to provide a wide range of support services tooffshore wind farms in the widest sense. It says that its High Speed Support Vessel 2610 is one of the most innovative design concepts it has  developed in the last decade.Although the "Axe Bow" conc ...

Fishermen's Energy reports that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ("NJ DEP") has issued the major environmental permits to build its demonstration-scale six turbine Fishermen's Atlantic City Windfarm to be located in New Jersey State waters off the coast of Atlantic City. NJ DEP issued the project's CAFRA Individual Permit, Waterfront ...