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Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern has arrived at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK ready to install the first turbines. According to the UK-based company, the vessel left the Alexandra Dock in Hull yesterday morning after picking up the first batch of Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines. Bold Tern is in […]
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern has arrived in Hull, the UK, where it will begin its work for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. According to Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, the vessel arrived in Hull yesterday afternoon and is ready to pick up the turbines for the 1.2GW project. Bold Tern is in charge of […]
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has contracted Speedcast International Limited to provide a communication solution for its jack-up vessels Bold Tern and Brave Tern. According to Speedcast, the solution will combine VSAT and 4G/LTE to deliver data and voice services for the corporate, operator and crew welfare networks. Under the multi-year contract, the company said it will also deploy […]
The jack-up vessel Bold Tern has returned to the Port of Esbjerg after completing an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) campaign in the Irish Sea, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier said.
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern is completing its fifth run on Ørsted ‘s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm and is currently installing the 19th MHI Vestas 8MW turbine at the site in the German North Sea.
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has devised a solution which allows the jack-up Bold Tern to simultaneously perform bunkering and loading of wind turbine components for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 project at the Port of Esbjerg.
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern has loaded and transported the third set of MHI Vestas wind turbine components from the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark to the Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in the German North Sea. The vessel has so far installed eight out of the 56 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines at the […]
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern has left the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark loaded with the first set of MHI Vestas 8MW turbine components for Ørsted’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has been awarded a contract with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) for the transport and installation of wind turbines on the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm off Suffolk, UK.
Danish design and consulting company OSK-Offshore A/S has assisted and worked in cooperation with Fred. Olsen Windcarrier (FOWIC) to prepare the wind farm installation vessel Bold Tern for the turbine installation project at the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm. The first of 67 Siemens 6MW wind turbines installed at the site started supplying the […]
Nicon Industries has secured an order for fabrication and installation of seafastening structures for Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern, which will install wind turbines at the Veja Mate offshore wind farm. Under the contract, Nicon will manufacture over 600 tonnes of steel structures. Production Manager at Nicon Industries, Henrik R. Jensen said: “We are very proud that we […]
Jack-up vessels Brave Tern and Bold Tern will undergo an upgrade which will enable them to handle the latest generation “multi MW” offshore wind turbines, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier informed today. The upgrade on the two vessels will be carried out within the next 12 months, with Brave Tern being the first to go through the modification, having already arrived at […]
Fred Olsen Windcarrier AS in Norway has bought Miros’ new WaveSystem 200, which has been installed on the Bold Tern WTI jack-up vessel. The WaveSystem 200 is a wave monitoring system utilized on jack-up vessels to give accurate wave parameters and draught data. The real time wave and draught data give valuable input to the […]
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Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s installation vessel Bold Tern reached a milestone on March 19, when turbine number 40 was successfully installed at the Butendiek offshore wind farm – bringing the installation campaign to its halfway mark. Bold Tern will continue to install the remaining 40 turbines throughout the spring. The offshore wind farm Butendiek is located west of […]
The installation vessel BOLD TERN from Fred. Olsen Windcarrier is now also installing rotor stars at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm. In accordance with planning, the project company Global Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH is flexibly deploying its three installation vessels VIDAR, BOLD TERN and BRAVE TERN for the construction of the AREVA […]
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier International Ltd., which is indirectly owned 50/50 by Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA, has been awarded an additional transport and installation contract by the German company Global Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH for the installation vessel Bold Tern. The Bold Tern joins her sister vessel Brave Tern, which commenced work on […]
Deepwater Wind has awarded a wind turbine installation contract to a Bold Tern, Bonheur and Ganger Rolf joint venture. Bold Tern will install 5 Alstom’s 6MW wind turbines located about three miles off the coast of Block Island, R.I. The installation is scheduled for the third quarter of 2016. A few days ago Deepwater Wind […]
Alstom has hired “Bold Tern” jack-up installation vessel, owned by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, to complete the offshore operations at the Belwind offshore wind farm. Recently, the company announced that they have faced a delay during the installation of Alstom’s 6MW Haliade 150 offshore wind turbine, for which they found a solution in the form of […]
Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewables industry, announced the successful completion of construction of the wind turbine installation vessel, Windcarrier 2 “Bold Tern”. Having resolved all outstanding commercial issues, Lamprell has made delivery of the vessel to the client, Fred Olsen. […]
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Blue Tern has left the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark carrying the first load of turbine components to be installed by this vessel on the EnBW Hohe See wind farm in the German North Sea. Another Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up, Bold Tern, has returned from the Hohe See to the Port of […]
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Brave Tern is currently mobilizing for the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind project in Germany. According to the company’s recent post, the 132m long vessel is undergoing the mobilization at the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier won the contract for the transport and installation of turbines for […]
Fred. Olsen Ocean Ltd. (FOO), owner of Fred. Olsen Windcarrier and Universal Foundation Norway, has reported NOK 413 million (EUR 42 million) in operating revenues in Q4 2018, a 13% increase compared to the same period in 2017, partly attributed to higher utilization of Brave Tern and Bold Tern. According to the company, the two jack-up vessels […]
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Brave Tern is ready to tackle the largest turbines currently in the market after completing a crane boom extension at Damen Shipyard in Amsterdam.
Fred. Olsen Ocean’s offshore wind segment reported NOK 428 million operating revenue in the third quarter of 2016, compared with NOK 254 million in the same period in 2015, mainly due to higher utilisation and rates from the jack-up installation vessels Brave Tern and Bold Tern. The segment includes Fred. Olsen Windcarrier AS and Universal Foundation […]
The Port of Rotterdam has posted a short video of the recently upgraded wind turbine installation vessel Brave Tern performing a full height jacket test. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, the owner of the vessel, contracted the Rotterdam yard of Franklin Offshore Europe to extend the Brave Tern’s legs by 14m to 92.4m, one of the several upgrades she underwent […]
