Europe’s maturing offshore industry has largely moved beyond the days when ill-starred projects like the UK’s Greater Gabbard and Germany’s Bard Offshore 1 exploded into public legal spats and even worker deaths.

But some in the industry are concerned that developers may need to quietly cut corners in order to win projects in the tender rounds now being held by countries such as Germany and the Netherlands, which have hammered prices down to record lows.

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