Ulstein has shared several photos of the second wind farm support operations vessel (SOV) to undergo construction at the Ulstein Verft shipyard in Norway as she is getting ready to be painted. The Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder plans to launch the SOV in late October, with sea trials schedu
A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer has arrived to Belfast Harbour, the load out port for DONG Energy’s 258MW Burbo Bank Extension project, and is currently loading components which will make up the first four of the wind farm’s 32 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines. Sea Installer is expected to sail out from
Fugro’s multi-purpose offshore vessel Saltire is expected to start burying inter-array cables at the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm on Sunday, 4 September. The Saltire will use a Q1400 trenching system to bury the 122 cables. Another Fugro vessel, the offshore support vessel Symphony, has been ins
Den Helder Support Service (DHSS), Den Helder Aircraft Systems (DHAS), Glomar Offshore and GEOxyz have formed a joint venture – Offshore Project Support (OPS) – to provide a complete package of specialized services above and below water in the offshore energy industry. The joint venture, called OPS,
The charter of A2SEA’s M/V Torben ended on 15 August without the company’s crew being able to complete the installation of two foundations and two Siemens 4MW turbines at the Formosa 1 pilot project in Taiwan. The installation of the two foundations and the two turbines was initially scheduled to st
Dubai-headquartered offshore support vessel owner and operator Topaz Energy and Marine has renewed its long standing contract with ABB for the cable laying vessel Topaz Installer. Under the terms of the contract, the Topaz Installer will provide ABB with cable-laying services in support of wind farm
Jack-up vessel Sea Challenger arrived and positioned herself at the offshore substation at the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm off Norfolk, UK, on 31 August, A2SEA reports. Statoil hired Sea Challenger to serve as an accommodation platform from September until the end of 2016, with the start of tur
Go Offshore International, a wholly-owned subsidiary Otto Marine Limited, has secured a chartering contract worth up to USD 7.5 million as part of an unidentified offshore wind project in South East Asian region. The vessel under charter is a liftboat equipped with heavy lift crane used for offshore
USA Just Got Its First Offshore Wind Farm “The Block Island Wind Farm is now fully constructed,” Jeff Grybowski, Deepwater Wind’s CEO, informed via social media on 18 August. Bilfinger Exits Offshore Wind Foundations Business Germany’s VTC Group Munich has bought Bilfinger’s share in Bilfinger Mars
DONG Energy and Siemens have deployed a maintenance team to exchange gearboxes and main bearings on two of the turbines at the 173MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm off the Essex coast. The maintenance work is being carried out using Ziton’s jack-up vessel Wind Pioneer, DONG confirmed to Offshore
Early August saw an initial training session in the North Sea involving Bernhard Schulte Offshore GmbH’s new service operation vessel (SOV) Windea La Cour, chartered out to Siemens Wind Power, and the Northern Rescue 01 offshore rescue helicopter, Northern HeliCopter GmbH reports. The training was f
GeoSea has once again selected the Scotland-based subsea and offshore cementing specialist FoundOcean and their support partners BASF to secure the foundations at DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm currently under construction some 17 miles off North Norfolk, UK. DONG contracted GeoSea
James Fisher Subsea has completed the location and excavation of unexploded ordnance (UXO) at the 111MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm located 16 kilometres off the North Sea coast of Germany. Of the 224 targets identified, 72 were deemed to be UXO’s and had to be detonated with minimal impact to s
Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder Ulstein plans to launch the second wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) built for Bernhard Schulte Offshore and chartered out to Siemens Wind Power Service from the dock hall at Ulstein Verft in two months’ time. The vessel is expected to start sea trials
