Denmark’s A2SEA has contracted two UK shipyards to fabricate and install sea fastenings on two of the company’s turbine installation vessels which are set to start working offshore UK. A&P Tyne will fabricate and install the sea fastening on Sea Challenger, which was contracted to work on the 402MW
Siemens Wind Power has awarded Aqualis Offshore with a contract for a series of assessments of a jack-up vessel in relation to maintenance operations that the vessel will perform on offshore wind turbines at a variety of wind farms in the North Sea. Aqualis Offshore’s office in London, UK, will cond
Gardline Geosurvey Ltd and Neptune have entered into a strategic partnership which will see Gardline’s DP2 multi-role survey vessel, the MV Kommandor, enhanced with the permanent installation of Neptune’s Explorer 06 100HP Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). Manned by staff from both companies, the ves
Norway’s Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA completed their merger today, 5 May, with Bonheur ASA as the surviving entity. The completed merger implies that all assets, rights and obligations of Ganger Rolf ASA are transferred into Bonheur ASA. As a corollary, Ganger Rolf ASA is liquidated and deleted
Turbine Transfers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Holyhead Towing Company, has won a contract to support Van Oord during the installation of foundations at the 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm in Liverpool Bay. Porth Eilian, an 18-metre offshore support vessel, has been deployed to provid
Island Phoenix, a 14-metre South Boats IOW-built jet drive catamaran has joined the Commercial Rib Charter (CRC) fleet after a signing ceremony held at the South Boats IOW headquarters in Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 3 May. ”This multipurpose catamaran is a perfect fit for CRC,’’ said CRC director
Forewind has used its latest operations and maintenance trip to the meteorological masts on Dogger Bank to trial new technology and methodology. The trip enabled aerial inspection and survey contractor Cyberhawk to utilise a new advanced camera technology to inspect the overall status of the met mas
Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm), part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, is currently undertaking a major modification and maintenance project on A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer, which arrived at DSAm on 10 April. The yard’s primary focus will be to upgrade the vessel’s main crane. With its in
The Damen Shipyards Group and GustoMSC have started collaborating in order to produce a range of self-propelled and non-self-propelled jack-up platforms for the offshore industries – the DG JACK range. The collaboration, announced at this year’s OTC in Houston, will be based on GustoMSC’s track reco
Dutch SMST has been awarded a contract for the delivery of a 3D motion compensated crane (MCC) for Østensjø Rederi’s new Service Operation Vessel (SOV) which will be deployed at the 580MW Race Bank wind farm offshore UK. The SMST motion compensated crane is designed to transfer equipment to an offsh
Liebherr’s offshore crane division installed a board offshore crane, type BOS 35000, on the Giant 7 heavy lift barge, which installed the first foundations at the Wikinger offshore wind farm at the end of the last month. The crane was specially developed for the use on Giant 7, and the entire projec
HeavyLift@Sea, a German designer of offshore and multipurpose vessels, has presented a design for a purpose-built Offshore Accommodation Vessel (OAV) for operations at offshore wind farms. The OAV serves as a base for up to 60 technicians and crew members. It features 60 single cabins, acoustically
Offshore construction of the Nordergründe wind farm is kicking off this week, with the MPI Enterprise vessel already loading monopiles and transition pieces in Cuxhaven, according to German media. After being contacted by Offshore WIND, wpd, the developer of the offshore wind project, confirmed the
Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder Ulstein has introduced a new design for a cable laying vessel featuring an in-house developed Cable Arch system. The LX109 vessel combines the Ulstein Cable Arch system with open top vessel design, resulting in a total of 12,500 tonnes of power cable that can
