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Offshore Wind tivity – and applauded Trump’s Ex- and Coast Line Transfers CAPT. LES HORNBECK MYSTIQUE is install- ecutive Order “Unleashing American ELDRIDGE are also supporting the ing the transmission cables.”

Energy”, setting the stage for a rever- construction. The SEACOR HAWK Other projects are seeing Jones Act sal of Biden moves to stymie leasing is helping commission Vineyard compliant vessels deployed; Revolu- and development on the Outer Con- Wind 1’s offshore substation, and the tion Wind (Ørsted and Eversource), tinental Shelf. But offshore wind has also presented opportunities for par- ticipants. Oceantic, in a November, 2024 presentation (held at an Ameri-

C-FIGHTER- working can Bureau of Shipping event in New

Vineyard Wind.

Orleans) highlighted the importance of offshore wind to U.S. yards and vessel operators, pointing to $1.8 bil- lion of “vessel orders and shipyard up- grades”. Though existing production represents a small fraction of the 2.4

GW of electricity which Rystad sees as highly probably moving forward, the bene? ts to U.S. ? agged offshore ser-

C-Innovation vice vessels are already apparent.

Consider the Vineyard Wind 1 project in waters south of Martha’s

Vineyard and Nantucket, producing electricity since early 2024; a look at

MarineTraf? c.com, or other ship track- ing websites, shows a cluster of service vessels. An end-2024 article by Jen- nifer Carpenter (President and CEO of American Waterway Operators, or

AWO) and Ann Reynolds (Vice Presi- dent at American Clean Power Asso- ciation), appearing on the Real Clear

Energy website, described the action succinctly: “the Vineyard Wind 1 proj- ect off the coast of Massachusetts uses a

U.S.-built, crewed, and ? agged Service

Operation Vessel (SOV), the CADE

CANDIES, from the Gulf of Mexico.

The same project is also using tugs and barges, the NICOLE FOSS and the FOSS PREVAILING WIND, to bring offshore wind components out to the site. But it is not just those ves- sels. Guice Offshore’s GO LIBERTY www.marinelink.com MN 21|