Oceantic’s Annual Summit will convene business and government leaders to discuss key developments for offshore wind operations and safety   Oceantic Network, the leading organization working to advance offshore wind and other ocean renewable industries and their supply chains, will host its annual OSW O&M/Health & Safety Summit beginning Thursday, January 18 in Virginia Beach, Virginia,...Read More

Today, the U.S. Navy, on behalf of NOAA, has awarded $146,778,932 to Skanska USA, from New York, to design and build a new NOAA facility on Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. This facility will eventually be the new home of NOAA’s Marine Operations Center – Atlantic.  While the details of the facility’s design are...Read More

Central Atlantic Offshore Wind Proposed for Offshore Delaware, Maryland, Virginia On December 11, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the proposal of an offshore wind lease sale in the Central Atlantic that includes one area offshore the States of Delaware and Maryland, and one area offshore the Commonwealth of Virginia. Lease Area A-2 consists of...Read More

For those whose interests are focused on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, particularly in research, offshore energy and marine mineral exploration, development and production, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has several upcoming events during early December 2023 in which to participate: BOEM Environmental Studies (ESP) 50th Anniversary Showcase It’s hard to believe it’s...Read More

GE Haliade-X Is First of 62 Wind Turbines for First-in-the-Nation Project that Will Power More than 400,000 Homes and Businesses in Massachusetts (BOSTON, MA) – Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), a leading sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a global leader in green energy investment, announced on October...Read More

Guice Offshore (“GO”) invites you to celebrate today’s 90th Anniversary of National Maritime Day! National Maritime Day is celebrated yearly on May 22. In honor of today’s occasion, U.S. Maritime Administrator Ann C. Phillips led a presentation for the official National Maritime Day Observance, entitled “Mariners Move the Nation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.”  A national panel featuring key...Read More

Guice Offshore (GO), widely considered to be the U.S. flag leader in operating dynamically positioned mini supply and medium-sized multi-purpose vessels in the specialty market, has doubled its fleet size and is hiring mariners across the spectrum of duty, from captains to engineers and ordinary seamen, the company announced in March 2023. The Lafayette, Louisiana-based...Read More

The U.S. Coast Guard First District is wrapping up an extensive study on the approaches to Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Port Access Routes, but there’s still time for the public to contribute written comments for the Coast Guard to consider before the February 2, 2023 deadline. Before establishing or adjusting traffic separation schemes (TSS)...Read More

Proposed Central Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Areas Include North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware; Comments Open Through Dec. 16, 2022 Plans for offshore wind energy are taking shape on the U.S. Central Atlantic coast with eight draft Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) identified for development.  The opportunity for the public and interested parties to review the...Read More

It’s American Clean Power Week (August 15-19) and, to mark America’s substantial advancements in the clean energy field, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released three reports today, August 16, 2022, showing that wind power remains one of America’s fastest growing energy sources and a generator of high-quality jobs. Wind power accounted for 32 percent...Read More