Pioneering Spirit’s new jacket lift system is materialising
After eighteen months of production at sites around the globe, the unique jacket lift system is beginning to take shape on board the world’s largest ship, the Pioneering Spirit. Assembly is in full flow, with...Read more
Tetrahedron wins award for new offshore wind crane
Tetrahedron has won Windpower Monthly’s innovation of the year award for its novel cranes that can install the next generation of 12-20-MW offshore wind turbines. The cranes can upgrade existing wind turbine installation vessels with minimal modification to the hull or be...Read more
Huisman to build 2600-mt crane for OIM Wind’s new installation vessel
Huisman has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore for the delivery of a 2600-metric-tonne Leg Encircling Crane for OIM Wind’s BT-220IU Wind Installation Unit. The LOI includes the option for...Read more
SAL moves into offshore wind installation business
Harren & Partner, the owner of SAL Heavy Lift, is jumping into the expected turbine installation vessel gap with a new company and a jack-up installation vessel. SAL Renewables will focus solely on offshore maintenance...Read more
Jumbo installs mooring system in record water depth
Jumbo Offshore has installed a 14-point FPSO mooring system at a depth of 1760 metres, breaking its own deepwater record. The project was carried out in preparation for the installation of the first FPSO ever...Read more
Knud E. Hansen presents new wind turbine installation vessel design
Ship design agency Knud E. Hansen presents a new platform, the Atlas C-Class. The wind turbine installation vessel is currently the only one capable of carrying six of the new-generation 14-16 MW wind turbines, and...Read more
[VIDEO] Boskalis performs float-over of 11,500-tonne topsides
Surgical precision, that’s how the float-over installation of the 11,500-tonne Bokor CPP-A platform topsides offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, can be characterised. For this incredibly precise operation, Boskalis’ semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Forte was fitted out with...Read more
Heerema’s vessel Aegir installs 1650-tonne water handling module
Heerema Marine Contractor’s heavy lift vessel Aegir has transported and installed a 1650-metric-tonne water handling module for client Technip FMC. The module was installed on the Woodside operated Pluto Alpha platform.Read more
Aeolus installs last turbine at Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus has completed the installation of all 77 MHI Vestas V164 9.5 MW turbines at the Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm. The wind farm is situated 22 kilometres...Read more
‘Shortage of offshore installation vessels looms by 2025’
The global wind turbine installation fleet will be undersupplied to meet demand after 2025, reports Rystad Energy. This opens up room for more specialised vessel orders and conversions of oil and gas heavy-lift vessels, the...Read more
Heerema’s Aegir installs topsides and bridges for Al-Shaheen oil field
Heerema’s heavy lift vessel Aegir has completed the installation of North Oil Company’s Al-Shaheen Gallaf 1 Project. Heerema was contracted for the transportation and installation of 3 topsides and 3 bridges by PTSC M&C Vietnam,...Read more
Newbuild reel-lay vessel Seven Vega joins Subsea 7 fleet
Subsea 7 has taken delivery of its new reel-lay vessel Seven Vega. The Royal IHC built ship is designed to install complex rigid flowlines including pipe-in-pipe systems, piggyback systems and electrical trace heating, in water depths...Read more
IQIP and TU Delft to reduce underwater noise of pile driving
IQIP’s Blue Piling Technology reduces underwater noise levels by creating a gentler blow, when compared to conventional impact hammers, to install offshore monopiles. Small-scale and model tests by IQIP and the Delft University of Technology...Read more
Sleipnir installs Dana Petroleum’s P11-Unity platform
Heerema’s semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has installed Dana Petroleum’s new P11-Unity platform. At 395 metric tonnes, this is one of the world’s smallest platforms. The contract was awarded by HSM Offshore, which fabricated the platform...Read more
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