Houston-headquartered NOV has been contracted by Cadeler to upgrade the wind turbine installation vessel Wind Osprey with a new, large capacity leg crane. Last year, NOV was selected to manufacture the new heavy-lift crane for Cadeler’s Wind Orca. Within that contract, Cadeler had an option to repla
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply an integrated propulsion and dynamic positioning thruster solution, including the engines, a Wärtsilä NOx reducer emission abatement system, as well as steerable and tunnel thrusters for OHT’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV). The ship is being built
Van Oord’s Aeolus has resumed drilling work at the Saint-Brieuc wind farm offshore France after the activities were halted once again last week due to the spillage of hydraulic fluid from one of the drills. As reported last week, the drilling activities were halted after the drill leaked the hydraul
After unveiling its dual crane wind turbine installation solution for turbines of up to 11 MW last year, Offshoretronic has now introduced vessel design for the installation of the next-generation, ultra long XXL monopiles that will support wind turbines of up to 20 MW. The vessel design involves co
Van Oord has stopped the ongoing drilling activities its vessel Aeolus is performing at the site of the French Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm after one of the vessel’s three drills encountered a technical problem. After less that two weeks of the vessel’s return to the Saint-Brieuc project site, wh
Siem Offshore has signed a contract with Seaway 7 to deploy one of its offshore subsea construction vessels (OSCVs) on the Seagreen offshore wind project later this year to support the project’s construction phase. Under the contract with Seaway 7, the renewables business unit of Subsea 7, Siem Offs
CSM Energy, part of the Columbia Group, and Hydrus Engineering have entered into a partnership to assess and retrofit offshore support vessels (OSVs) working in the offshore wind industry to turn them into hybrid vessels powered by both battery and fuel. “The offshore wind market is driven by moving
The Sheng Ping 001 jack-up vessel, formerly Teras Fortress 2, tilted on 25 July while working at the site of China General Nuclear Power Corporation’s (CGN) wind farm off Huizhou, with four people reported missing, China’s media report. The vessel, carrying 65 people, tilted around 11 a.m. on 25 Jul
The China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation is building two offshore wind farm installation vessels, one at CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding yard and one at China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) yard in Jiangsu. CSSC is building a 2000-tonne wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) for CTG and CMHI wi
Hydrogen-based propulsion systems, electric engines and battery technologies are still years away from being operationally effective in the offshore energy support vessel (OESV) sector. So what can OESV operators do to meet the growing demand for lower emissions today? According to Seacat Services (
Red Rock has been awarded a contract by Vard for equipment supply for the three service operations vessels (SOVs) owned by North Star Renewables that have been chartered for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. Red Rock will deliver two 2T 3D Motion Compensated cranes, a 5T 3D Motion Compensated cra
Vattenfall has issued a call for tenders for the provision of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for its DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany from next year and until 2025. The tender has been divided into two lots, with Lot 1 seeking two CTVs to support scheduled maintenance two times per
Mainprize Offshore has signed a shipbuilding contract with Manor Marine for a 26-metre Supa-Swath catamaran designed by Walker Marine Design. The MO8 vessel, due for delivery in Q2 2022, will be the sixth crew transfer vessel (CTV) constructed by Manor Marine, but the first the company will build fo
North Star Renewables, which won the Dogger Bank Wind Farm tender for the delivery of three service operations vessels (SOVs) earlier this year, is set to sign shipbuilding contracts for the first two SOV daughter craft this September, and the company decided to build them in the UK. According to th
