Red7Marine Offshore, air diving provider based in Great Yarmouth and Aberdeen, will add saturation diving to its wide range of offshore and subsea services to the oil & gas and renewables markets with diving support vessel Red7Alliance. Capable of working worldwide, the vessel will operate from the
Glomar Offshore Wind Support B.V., a Dutch-based operator of service vessels for the offshore wind industry, has equipped its new vessel ‘Glomar Wave’ with Pronomar’s drying systems for work clothes. The vessel offers highly efficient systems for drying work jackets and trousers, survival and diving
Pronomar has received a new order from the Dutch established company Heerema Marine Contractors. Heerema placed an order for Pronomar’s drying systems for its deepwater construction vessel, the ‘Thialf’. The ‘Thialf’ is equipped with the following two applications: • Multipurpose drying systems for
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) has signed a contract with CCCC Third Harbor Engineering for the construction of China’s most advanced wind farm installation vessel. The vessel with a 1000-ton capacity will be equipped with the latest jack up system developed by ZPMC. It will feature a hydr
Humphree, the Swedish based manufacturer of Interceptor Trim Tabs, has introduced a system for Vessel Motion Monitoring, which provides monitoring of real time impact forces, vessel heave motions and sea sickness index with a possibility of complete data recording. Humphree has developed the Vessel
There are no uniform regulations for offshore service vessels. To many companies providing services to offshore platforms and wind farms, this could causes challenges on a daily basis. A special session at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference on 29 October 2014 with shipowners, shipbuilders a
eVision Industry Software has taken the next step in its partnership with Heerema. Today, Permit Vision goes live on the Thialf, the largest crane vessel in the world. Permit Vision allows Thialf management direct insight in and control of frontline operational risk, which is absolutely crucial to s
Work on E.ON’s Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm is well underway, according to data from KIS-ORCA. Inter-array cables are being installed by the ‘Atlantic Carrier’, while 0Fugro Saltire’ is working on cable burial. ‘Stemat Spirit’ has also joined the project for cable installation and will stay on
The Bathymetric Survey at the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm is now complete and the 12 meter Catamaran ‘Norfolk Swift’ has demobilised from this site. A general maintenance programme will continue with the transfer of technicians out to selected turbines by Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) on a daily ba
From autumn 2016, A2SEA will play a key role in helping build the 402MW Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in the UK for Statoil, Masdar and Statkraft. A2SEA will provide their specialist purpose-built offshore installation vessel SEA INSTALLER to install the 67 Siemens 6MW turbines. Dudgeon Offshore Wind F
DEME’s marine engineering specialist GeoSea acquires offshore assets of HOCHTIEF, one of Germany’s leading international construction groups. HOCHTIEF is selling offshore assets to marine contractor and long-term partner GeoSea. GeoSea has had decades of success in marine engineering and is now acqu
Barge Master is nearing the completion of the construction of the first BM-T40 system. On the 14th of October, the Barge Master motion compensated knuckle boom crane pedestal was installed on the new Wagenborg Walk-to-Work vessel, designed and built by Royal Niestern Sander. The vessel and Barge Mas
German Renewables Shipbrokers expanded its services portfolio by offering offshore equipment for charter, purchase or sale. In order to respond even more individually to the needs of its customers, GRS is adding another service to its extensive portfolio: offshore equipment. From now on, customers c
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Load out of foundations for the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm. The photo, sent to Offshore WIND by a reader, captures a moment of the load out work done yesterday (October 13) at the Port of Vlissingen from the Aeolus vessel, which is owned and operated by
