Three companies have been offered exploration licenses for CO2 storage in one area in the North Sea. The companies are Sval Energi AS, Storegga Norwary and Neptune Energy Norway.

Global Wind Projects, one of the UK and Ireland’s leading providers of onshore wind turbine crane and installation services, has commenced work on what is its first offshore wind project.

The Business Network for Offshore Wind, the leading organization dedicated solely to the advancement of the offshore wind renewable energy industry and its supply chain, will host a first of its kind event in North America to explore the world of alternative offtake methods for the offshore wind industry.

The Business Network for Offshore Wind announces it will hold its annual Ventus Gala in Boston on November 9. The Ventus Gala is the offshore wind industry’s premier celebration, bringing together the industry to celebrate the year’s accomplishments, connect with peers, as well as honor the 2023 Ventus Award winners.

The Windstaller Alliance has successfully completed the installation of the DemoSATH floating offshore wind turbine project located offshore Spain. All three alliance partners – Aker Solutions, DeepOcean and Solstad Offshore – were involved.  

Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7 have appointed Hugh Yendole as development director for Salamander, a pioneering floating offshore wind joint venture.

The DemoSATH project has achieved a significant milestone with the successful installation of its 2 MW innovative floating wind platform demonstrator in open sea waters. The operation, carried out by the Windstaller Alliance, used their anchor handling vessel, the Normand Sapphire, along with local tugboats, to tow DemoSATH from the construction site in the Port of Bilbao to the BiMEP test site, located 11 miles away.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has published two final guidance documents: the “NOI Checklist” and the “Marine Acoustic Modeling and Measurement Guidelines.”

Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea 7, has appointed Fugro to conduct a comprehensive metocean survey for the proposed Salamander offshore wind farm project. Located 35 km off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, the 100 MW project will use innovative floating offshore wind technologies to help Scotland and the UK progress towards a net-zero future.

Eco Wave Power Global AB, a leading, publicly traded onshore wave energy developer, announces that its station at the Port of Jaffa in Tel Aviv, EWP-EDF One, has officially connected to Israel’s national electrical grid – making it the first wave energy project to deliver electricity to the country’s power supply.

Specialist shipping and navigation consultancy, NASH Maritime, is currently undertaking vessel traffic surveys in the North Sea off the Aberdeenshire coast, northeast of Fraserburgh and in the outer Moray Firth.

DWTEK Co. Ltd., a Taiwanese underwater tech developer, last month made a major achievement in supporting the local offshore wind farm maintenance by sending the ‘Made-In-Taiwan’ working-class ROV Monew to the west side of Taiwan Strait, for an inspection with partner R2 Sonic and Tritech.

Rotech Subsea, the leading provider of innovative subsea trenching and excavation tools to the energy industry, has announced the completion of Sandwave Clearance and Debris Removal Operations at a key offshore wind farm in Taiwan.

RWE has appointed ocean services provider DeepOcean as preferred supplier of subsea installation services in connection with the Nordseecluster A offshore wind development off the German coast.

Rovco, a global provider of technology-enabled project solutions to the offshore renewable energy sector, has been contracted by Flotation Energy to carry out a geo-environmental survey at its planned Cenos floating offshore windfarm, 200 kilometers off the north-east coast of Scotland.

Japan’s expanding offshore wind industry has added a further Seaeye Falcon underwater robot as a key operational resource for working in complex environments.