NOV Inc. NOV has introduced an innovative Floating Wind Installation Vessel (FWIV) concept, which is designed to meet the unique challenges of the rapidly growing floating offshore wind sector.

Japanese officials announced the start of commercial operation of a 16.8-MW floating offshore wind farm, a first for that ...

Offshore vessel operator and installation services firm Bourbon Subsea Services has recently completed the installation of the 3.6 MW TetraSpar floating wind turbine prototype at a test site in Norway ...

Opportunities in the floating offshore wind power market include growth in turbines, hydrodynamic structures, transitional ...

A drumbeat of floating offshore wind–related developments this year suggests the pipeline for the long-nascent wind technology sub-sector may be finally beginning to grow. While floating wind’s ...

With its novel concrete prototype destined for sea trials this August, a small Spanish company is joining the European competition in the rapidly emerging market for floating offshore wind turbine ...

Researchers at the Norwegian institute Sintef are testing a special floating structure that Equinor wants to deploy in offshore waters. The structure is built with an anchoring system that is claimed ...

T-Omega's pyramid-based floating wind turbines are designed with the sole common-sense focus of keeping the cost of offshore wind down to an absolute minimum. With wave tank testing done, the company ...

Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building ...

Luxembourg-based Jan De Nul has ordered a second mega offshore installation vessel, Les Alizés, from the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China. Together with the Voltaire, the new floating installation crane ...

WindFloat Atlantic consists of three 8.4-MW wind turbines installed about 20 kilometers off the coast of Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Although its size is modest compared to other operating offshore ...

Float-over installation techniques have emerged as a cost‐effective and reliable method for assembling offshore structures, particularly in the installation of heavy decks and topsides. This method ...