China Merchants Heavy Industry started building OOS International’s new semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) OOS Walcheren on 24 May at its Jiangsu yard, while the first of the two ordered SSCVs, OOS Serooskerke, is already under construction in Haimen and due for delivery in mid-2019.
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 t
SMST has equipped the Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) Eurus Express with a motion compensated gangway ahead of the vessel’s deployment on Orsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK.
Van Oord has christened the subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel, the Bravenes, at the Wilhelminakade in Rotterdam.
Following an internal competition, workers at Siemens Gamesa and EnBW have decided on a name for the second Bibby WaveMaster Service Operation Vessel (SOV).
Global Maritime and Unisea have won a five-year contract to provide dynamic positioning (DP) assurance software solutions to SolstadFarstad’s fleet of offshore service and supply vessels, which the Norwegian vessel provider is also using in the offshore wind sector.
Swire Blue Ocean’s jack-up Pacific Orca has arrived in the Port of Esbjerg to load the last four MHI Vestas turbines for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in the Aberdeen Bay.
DP1 Ice Class Survey and ROV vessel SeaZip Fix is currently on its way to the Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea.
Nexans has completed all export cable installation and burial works at the Beatrice site, where Siemens Transmission and Distribution team has started commissioning works on the recently installed second Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) in preparation for the energisation of the system.
Wind farm installation vessel Seajacks Scylla is set to begin working on the East Anglia One offshore wind farm at the end of July or the beginning of August, a spokesperson on behalf of Seajacks told Offshore WIND.
22 out of 66 GE HaliadeTM 150-6MW turbines have so far been installed on the Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, Merkur Offshore GmbH reports.
Japan’s Toda Corporation has, in collaboration with Yoshida Co., Ltd., launched a vessel designed for the installation of floating offshore wind turbines.
Denmark-based vessel owner KEM Offshore has won two contracts to provide its crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for Ørsted’s and Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms.
Wind farm installation vessel Seajacks Scylla has arrived at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, to undergo demobilization.
