The first commercial-scale suction bucket jacket foundation has been installed at Vattenfall’s 11-turbine European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Scotland. The pioneering foundation, which ...

In a 44-hour operation in the choppy waters of the German Bight, a team headed by Danish developer Dong Energy installed a new model of turbine foundation known as a suction bucket jacket (SBJ) that ...

The 24-day testing campaign, managed by Norwegian energy giant Statoil, compared a eight-metre-diameter model of the new-look concept – a bucket-shaped foundation base that is sunk into the seabed and ...

A new technology for anchoring offshore structures to the seabed could drastically reduce the cost, and increase the speed of installation for offshore wind farms; making the offshore wind a far more ...

A batch of 24 domestically built 2,000-meter-class ultra-deepwater suction anchors was shipped from Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province, to Brazil, marking China's deepest-capacity offshore oil ...

A giant floating crane has successfully installed the first of the foundations for an offshore wind farm that will be home to the world’s most powerful turbines. The Vattenfall European Offshore Wind ...

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