Sif has signed a heads of agreement with Royal IHC to acquire the Netherlands-based engineering and consultancy company KCI the engineers. The final agreement is subject to due diligence outcome and is expected in the first quarter of 2021. Works Councils of the two parties have been informed or ask
An EOLOS floating LiDAR has been deployed at the Dunkirk offshore wind site off France, where the Éoliennes en Mer de Dunkerque (EMD) consortium will build a wind farm of up to 600 MW of capacity. The consortium between EDF Renewables, Enbridge and Innogy-RWE awarded EOLOS with a contract for turn-k
The Port of Rotterdam has awarded the Dutch construction company Van Hattum & Blankevoort with a contract for work on a quay at Sif’s site at the port. The contract covers quay wall construction, marine construction works, and dredging and pumping operations, which will be carried out at the 20-hect
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has signed a long-term charter contract with Rem Offshore for the newbuild Construction Service Vessel (CSV), Rem Energy. The vessel will be performing maintenance on various wind farms in Germany, the Norwegian supply shipping company said. Rem Inspector will perform
AqualisBraemar has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in LOC Group with the purchase price consideration of USD 20.2 million (around EUR 16.5 million) cash consideration plus two million conditional warrants in AqualisBraemar. The two companies will continue trading separately until the latter part
Sif has secured a contract with Van Oord for the fabrication and supply of monopiles for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Sif will manufacture 70 TP-less monopile foundations and store them at its Maasvlakte2 facility in Rotterdam in 2022-2023. “We are grateful for
The Houston-based National Oilwell Varco (NOV) has secured contracts to design, and deliver equipment for the GustoMSC™ NG-16000X-SJ offshore wind turbine installation jack-up vessel ordered by Dominion Energy. Designed by GustoMSC, a business unit within NOV, this first Jones Act-compliant vessel o
Nexans has begun onshore work for the installation of underground cable that will connect the Seagreen offshore wind project to the grid in Angus, Scotland. Once finished, the 19 km cable will reach from where the project makes landfall in Carnoustie to a new substation currently under construction
Dry bulk shipping specialist Scorpio Bulkers will sell its remaining dry bulk vessels and exit the dry bulk sector during 2021 as the company shifts its focus to owning and operating offshore wind installation vessels. As a result of this decision, Scorpio Bulkers expects to record a write-down rang
The Yangjiang Nanpeng Island offshore wind project in China has been fully connected to the grid. MingYang Smart Energy installed the last of its 73 MySE5.5MW hybrid-drive turbines at the 401.5 MW wind farm at the end of November. According to the company, just from 1 to 16 December the team achieve
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has awarded the Dutch offshore transfer equipment specialist Safeway with a contract to supply a Safeway Seagull type motion compensated gangway system for installation on the CSV Normand Baltic. This is Safeway’s first contract for HMC, and it is also the first time
Dominion Energy has submitted a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. The COP includes information about the construction, operations and conceptual decommissioning plans for the wind
SEACOR Marine has entered into an agreement with Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary Windcat Workboats and its crew transfer vessel (CTV) business. As consideration for the sale, at the closing of the transaction, CMB will pay SEACOR Marine GBP 32.8 million, and assume
Havyard Group’s subsidiary, New Havyard Ship Technology, has handed over the first of the three new wind farm service operations vessels (SOV) ordered by Esvagt. The SOV that was handed over on 18 December is the fourth such vessel to be delivered to Esvagt and the first in a new series of SOVs buil
