Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern has installed the 44th Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbine on the Hornsea One offshore wind farm, marking a halfway point on the project for the company. The 1,214MW Hornsea One is located some 120 kilometres offshore Yorkshire and will comprise a total of 174 wind
Esvagt has sold Esvagt Supporter, its first service operations vessel (SOV) that served the offshore wind market. The beginning of Esvagt Supporter’s deployment in the offshore wind sector came after the company needed to access the turbines at the Belwind project in Belgium. Esvagt said it then dec
Dordrecht-based Safeway BV has won a contract to deliver its Osprey-type motion compensated offshore access system for DEME Offshore’s installation vessel Orion. According to Safeway, the most unique feature of this custom made Safeway walk-to-work system is that the gangway is vertically integrat
Danish jack-up vessel operator Ziton has chartered Vroon’s MPI Enterprise on a bareboat agreement. The bareboat charter started on 28 May and will continue until 31 March 2021. Ziton will then have the option to acquire the 2011-built vessel. This fleet expansion is part of Ziton’s strategy to meet
Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) has delivered an ultra high-powered 2400hp Cable Burial Tractor to Boskalis’ cable laying vessel Ndeavor. The CBT2400 and associated deck equipment were mobilized directly onto Ndeavor from the Swan Hunter quayside access point next to SMD’s production facility. Boska
High Speed Transfers’ (HST) newest fast crew supply vessel HST Harri is taking shape at Damen Shipyards Antalya in Turkey. HST Harri represents the third fast crew supply vessel that HST ordered with Damen under a contract signed at the beginning of this year. The vessel, which belongs to the FCS 27
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted an Approval in Principle (AIP) to the design of OOS Zeelandia, a new semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) that, when built, will have the largest lifting capacity in the world, OOS International B.V. said. China Merchants Offshore Technology Research Cen
Invergordon-based PSG Marine & Logistics Ltd has started loading in and loading out the jacket prepiles and the related equipment from the Port of Cromarty Firth as part of the port marshalling contract awarded by DEME Offshore in support of the Moray East offshore wind project. As reported earlier,
Sembcorp Marine has christened Sleipnir, Heerema Marine Contractors’ new semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) at its Tuas Boulevard Yard in Singapore. Sleipnir, named after the Norse God Odin’s eight-legged stallion, will soon leave for sea trials after which it will be delivered to Heerema. Accordi
Ørsted has awarded Ziton A/S with a contract to provide a service jack-up vessel or vessels for main component exchanges at offshore wind farms out of warranty in the United Kingdom, Germany and/or Denmark. Under the Service Jack-up Framework Agreement 2019, Ziton will provide the vessel(s) to carry
Norwegian ship operator Olympic Subsea has entered into an agreement with Adwen GmbH, a subsidiary of Siemens Gamesa, for the vessel Olympic Orion. The contract period is firm for six months with further options. The contract commencement is in the second quarter of 2019. Olympic Subsea did not disc
Acta Marine’s new walk-to-work vessel Acta Centaurus was christened in Den Helder in the Netherlands on Wednesday, 22 May. Following the ceremony, Acta Centaurus will head to Eemshaven to mobilize for its first offshore wind assignment. According to DHSS, MHI Vestas contracted the vessel for the com
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has extended the charter of Eidesvik Offshore’s vessel Acergy Viking by an additional year. The new firm period for the vessel will end in January 2022, after which further options are possible. “We are very pleased with the good cooperation established with Siemens G
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Jill has departed from the Port of Frederikshavn in Denmark to begin supporting suction bucket installation tests on a project. The work, which will be carried out in cooperation with Universal Foundation, represents the vessel’s first offshore wind assignmen
