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The Norwegian Government has awarded Vard Group and the Ocean Charger project partners NOK 38 million (approximately EUR 3.6 million) for the development of offshore charging solutions. The Ocean Charger project’s primary goal is to develop and demonstrate an offshore charging solution for battery-p
Van Oord’s next-generation jack-up vessel Boreas had its keel laying ceremony at the Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore (YCRO) yard in China on Tuesday, 27 December. The 175-metre vessel will be the first to feature Wärtsilä’s dedicated fuel supply system for methanol, MethanolPac. The jack-up will be pur
SeaMar has been contracted by Van Oord to deploy guard vessels on the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. The guard vessels are present within the 125 km2 total surface area of the wind farm and are keeping close contact with the coast guard and project teams to
NR Marine Services has placed an order with Diver Marine for a new crew transfer vessel (CTV) to service the offshore wind industry. The newbuild will be a first-of-class Diverse Marine 27-metre CTV featuring a traditional catamaran hull form that has been CFD tested, the company said. The vessel, t
Gondan Shipyard has launched another commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) it is building for the Norwegian shipowner Edda Wind at its yard in Figueras, Spain. The vessel, designed by Salt Ship Design, is prepared for the installation of zero-emission hydrogen technology, based on funding fr
“The reality is that the majority of downtime of turbine installation comes from wind speed limits for blade installation…So, we want to come to a solution that is less wind dependent and that’s difficult because blades are made to catch wind”, said Andries Hofman, Product Development Manager at Gus
Energy company Vattenfall has issued contract notices seeking vessels to transport and install wind turbine foundations and wind turbines at two offshore wind farms. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original article by clicking
NOV has signed contracts with CIMC Raffles to supply a GustoMSC™ NG-20000X self-propelled wind turbine installation jack-up vessel design for Havfram, an offshore wind services company based in Norway. The NG-20000X-HF vessel will be among the largest wind installation jack-ups in the industry. It f
RWE has signed up Port of Blyth as an offshore construction base for its 1.4 GW Sofia Offshore Wind Farm. Commissioned in December 2000, Blyth was home to the UK’s first offshore wind turbine pilot project, operated at the time by E.ON Climate and Renewables, whose activities have since become part
Vestas has signed a five-year charter with Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) to explore how the world’s first methanol-powered crew transfer vessel (CTV) can help reduce carbon emissions from its offshore service operations. The CTV, provided and developed by N-O-S, will be powered by a dual-fuel s
Jan De Nul has taken delivery of its jack-up vessel, Voltaire, from the COSCO Shipping Shipyard in China. The vessel had been delivered by the shipyard on 15 December, and departed for Dubai on the morning of Tuesday, 20 December. Designed in-house, Voltaire will be used to transport, lift and insta
UK infrastructure vessel support operator, North Star, has launched a recruitment drive for crew ahead of its first hybrid-powered offshore wind fleet arriving in UK waters early next year. The company, which has facilities in Aberdeen, Lowestoft, and Newcastle, is aiming to hire 42 qualified seafar
Seajacks UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eneti, has signed a contract with an undisclosed client to transport and install turbines for a project commencing in the first half of 2025. The contract will be performed by Eneti’s first of two NG16000X wind turbine installation vessels currently under co
