Turbine installation team working on the Merkur offshore wind farm has reached a halfway point on this 396MW project in the German North Sea.
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.
Rhode Island-based Blount Boats, Inc. has signed a sub-license agreement with Marine Applied Physics Corp. (MAPC) of Baltimore, Maryland, for the building of South Boats crew transfer vessel designs.
Vroon has christened its newest platform supply vessel (PSV) VOS Patriot, which is set to be deployed at the Trianel Windpark Borkum II offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
50Hertz Transmission GmbH has issued a tender for boulder removal services along the submarine export cable routes between the offshore wind farms in the German Baltic Sea and the landing point in Lubmin.
Heerema Marine Contractors and CAPE Holland have installed a Delft Offshore Turbine (DOT) monopile at the site of Eneco’s Princess Amalia offshore wind farm (Prinses Amaliawindpark) by using a Vibro Lifting Tool from Heerema’s vessel Aegir.
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.
Swedish offshore wind developer and operator Vattenfall has issued a contract notice for provision of marine coordination services offshore several European countries.
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has awarded ABB with a contract to equip a wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) which once built will operate on the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK.
Vineyard Wind has started environmental surveys along proposed export cable corridors and in the Vineyard Wind lease area offshore Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
EWE Netz GmbH has commissioned the ShoreCONNECT power supply system in Cuxhaven which will mainly be used by vessels transporting Siemens Gamesa’s wind turbine parts.
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) has delivered the Longyuan Zhenhua 3 jack-up vessel to Jiangsu Longyuan Zhenhua Marine Engineering, a 50-50 joint venture between ZPMC and Jiangsu Longyuan Offshore Wind Power that will use the vessel for the installation of wind turbine components off China’
China Merchants Heavy Industry will start building OOS Energy’s two newly designed jack-up vessels later this year. The new multi-activity units (MAUs) will be capable of handling offshore wind installation and oil & gas decommissioning operations.
Seazip Offshore Service has chartered crew transfer vessel (CTV) SeaTwin 2 from Damen Marine Services for an ROV campaign at the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm.