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Offshore

Vineyard Wind's GE Haliade-X components transported via a Foss barge from New Bedford, Mass. Vineyard Wind photo

Top 10 2023 News Story: Economic headwinds for offshore wind

Kirk Moore

Students at the Brown University Climate and Development Lab created a map of the "anti-offshore wind network" opposing U.S. wind energy projects. Brown University/CDL graphic.

Brown University researchers ‘map’ anti-offshore wind movement

Kirk Moore

Shell photo

Gulf lease sale high bids total over $382 million

WorkBoat Staff

The Sparrows Point Steel site in Baltimore County, Md., was once home to Bethlehem Steel. The Maritime Administration will provide a $47 million grant for upgrades to support offshore wind foundation and tower manufacturing there. Sparrows Point Steel graphic

Biden administration still committed to offshore wind in the Central Atlantic

WorkBoat Staff

A final environmental assessment for the Sunrise Wind energy project recommends reducing the number of turbines to protect cod habitat and avoid seafloor geology resistant to pile driving. BOEM graphic.

BOEM completes Sunrise Wind review, announces new Atlantic lease offers

Kirk Moore

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is building the first U.S.-flagged Jones Act-compliant, inclined fallpipe vessel for subsea rock installation. The 461'x112' vessel will service the U.S. offshore wind energy industry. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock rendering

Great Lakes Dredge awarded third wind rock installation contract

WorkBoat Staff

The first of 12 turbines to be built at the South Fork Wind site 35 miles off Long Island, N.Y., began delivering power Dec. 6. Ørsted video image.

First power from South Fork Wind project off New York

WorkBoat Staff

A right whale female named Fission by scientists with an unnamed juvenile male whale is shown during an aerial survey over southern New England waters in March 2023. New England Aquarium photo/NOAA research permit #25739.

NOAA experts: Listen early for whales before wind project work

Kirk Moore

Deepwater-Platform-GOM-Exxon — An ExxonMobil Gulf of Mexico deepwater platform. ExxonMobil photo

Gulf oil and gas lease sale rescheduled again

WorkBoat Staff

The BMS 1888 provides a mobile pipe mill facility that can be scaled to meet the requirements of any specific project, anywhere on the coast. Baker Marine Solutions rendering

Baker Marine unveils new concept design for mobile pipe mill barge for offshore wind

WorkBoat Staff

The Sparrows Point Steel site in Baltimore County, Md.,was once home to Bethlehem Steel. Maritime Administration will provide a $47 million grant for upgrades to support offshore wind foundation and tower manufacturing there. Sparrows Point Steel graphic

Marad awards $47 million grant for Baltimore wind power hub

WorkBoat Staff

Map of the Nantucket Shoals region showing the wind farm lease areas and bathymetric contours (meters). The lease numbers correspond to BOEM designations. National Academy of Sciences graphic.

Offshore wind power's affect on right whales uncertain, National Academies study says

Kirk Moore

BOEM graphic

Oregon Tribes declare opposition to wind energy areas

Kirk Moore