DEME contracts Cadeler-vessel for Hornsea 2 campaign
Cadeler will be sending the installation vessel Pacific Orca to the United Kingdom in early 2021 to help DEME install 165 foundations for Ørsted’s Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm. Pacific Orca will support DEME’s vessel...Read more
Heerema’s Sleipnir installs 4850-metric-tonne Tolmount Platform
The world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has installed the Tolmount platform in the Southern North Sea. The project consisted of installing the 2350-metric-tonne jacket and 2500-metric-tonne topsides constructed by Rosetti Marino.Read more
Video: Jumbo transports 10 transition pieces in one go
Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan is set to feature 80 Siemens Gamesa 8-MW turbines. Among other things, Jumbo has been hired to transport 40 transition pieces. The first 10 have now been loaded onto...Read more
Jan De Nul installs first wind turbine for Taiwanese wind farm
Jan De Nul Group has installed the first offshore wind turbine for the 109.2-MW Taiwan Power Company Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 Project – Demonstration. The Hitachi turbine with downwind rotor was installed onto the jacket...Read more
‘Installation vessel Orion was whiplash proof, but its crane was not’
SWZ|Maritime’s offshore expert Björn von Ubisch has analysed the crane accident with DEME’s new offshore vessel Orion. His conclusion: ‘the ship could handle the “whiplash” effect, but the crane could not.’ In the meantime, Liebherr...Read more
Heerema’s Sleipnir installs first jacket of Hollandse Kust offshore substation
The first jacket of TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore platform has been installed in the seabed. The heavyweight Alpha jacket of 3200 tonnes was transported and installed by Heerema’s heavy lift crane vessel Sleipnir.Read more
Svanen uses bubbles to silently install offshore foundations in Denmark
Van Oord’s heavy lift vessel Svanen has installed the final foundation for the Danish Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind farm in the Baltic Sea. To reduce the underwater noise, a “double big bubble curtain” was used...Read more
Two new contracts for Boskalis including its first in floating wind
Boskalis has been hired for the transport and installation of five floating wind turbines for a Scottish offshore wind farm, a first for the company. The second contract it won involves the installation of bridge...Read more
Heerema’s Balder installs the Pemex Yaxche-C offshore platform
Heerema’s semi submersible crane vessel Balder has installed Pemex’s Yaxche-C jacket and topside on behalf of Cotemar S.A. de C.V. The jacket weighed 700 metric tonnes, the four skirt piles 125 metric tonnes each, and...Read more
Blue Offshore moves 8000 tonnes of grid cables for Dutch OWF
Blue Offshore has moved 8000 tonnes of high voltage cable to Rotterdam. The cables will form the connection of Tennet’s Hollandse Kust Zuid Alpha Platform to the onshore grid.Read more
Jan De Nul delivers first pin piles for Taiwanese offshore wind farm
Jan De Nul Group has started transportation of the pin piles for the 376-MW Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm. The first batch of 26 pin piles was loaded on the transportation vessel BBC Onyx at...Read more
Van Oord to construct Hollandse Kust offshore wind farm
After CrossWind was awarded the permit for the Hollandse Kust (north) offshore wind farm earlier this week, Van Oord has been contracted for the engineering, construction and installation activities. CrossWind is a joint venture between...Read more
Video: Load-out and commissioning of IHC pipelay system
Royal IHC has delivered a J-Lay system after one of the most complex mobilisation operations ever seen in the North East of England. It will be installed onto ZPMC’s multi-purpose vessel the JSD6000 in China...Read more
Ørsted and Van Oord install 94 cables at Borssele offshore wind farm
Ørsted and Van Oord have completed installation of the 94 array cables connecting the turbines of the Borssele I & II offshore wind farm 23 kilometers off the coast of the Dutch province of Zeeland....Read more
Seajacks’ Scylla takes over Orion’s jacket installation job at Moray East
Despite the coronavirus pandemic and last-minute crane failure prior to the delivery of its new offshore installation vessel Orion, DEME Offshore has installed the first jacket of the Moray East wind farm on time. The...Read more
Huisman crane for CSBC-DEME’s new installation vessel Green Jade
The floating DP3 heavy lift and installation vessel Green Jade will be equipped with a Huisman crane. Belgian offshore contractor DEME is building the ship with its Taiwanese partner CSBC. The Offshore Mast Crane is...Read more
Heerema researches silent offshore foundations
The increasing focus on sustainability has led to underwater noise restrictions for offshore construction. Heerema is now involved in a research project seeking to develop alternative pile foundations that can be installed without producing significant...Read more
Heerema’s Aegir suffers dropfall incident while piling in Taiwan
Heerema has halted piling works for the Changhua offshore wind farm in Taiwan after installation vessel Aegir suffered a dropfall incident while installing a foundation. The company is currently investigating the cause of the incident. A...Read more