Offshore engineering and windfarm development was the topic of the recent First Class Exchange Forum of Germanischer Lloyd (GL) held in cooperation with Samsung Heavy Industries, Beluga Hochtief Offshore, Huisman and BLM Jack up Systems in Hamburg.

GE and Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) of Northern Ohio announced a long-term partnership beginning with the development of the first fresh water offshore wind farm in the US and involving a broad range of other initiatives.

Moog Industrial Group, Amsterdam, a division of Moog Inc.,has won a contract to supply Hamburg based REpower Systems AG with electric blade pitch control systems for the RWE Innogy Nordsee Ost 1 wind farm, one of the largest offshore projects in the world.

The UK oil and gas industry’s new Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) met for the first time to set out a path for the early review of the sector’s practices and its readiness to respond to a major event in the UK continental shelf (UKCS), in light of the incident in the Gulf of Mexico.