Heerema Marine Contractors will transport and install the Sofia Offshore Wind Farm HVDC Offshore Converter Platform Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine. The platform’s fabrication will be executed at Sembcorp Marine’s yard, and offshore installation is scheduled for...Read more
Allseas is equipping its mega heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit with a second unique lift system. It is capable of removing and installing complete offshore jackets weighing up to 20,000 tonnes in one go. After...Read more
Seaqualize is developing the Delta600p. This active heave compensation tool dampens the movement of a load hanging in the hook of a heaving ship. As a result, wind turbine installation can be performed by floating...Read more
The Cosco Shipping Shipyard in Nantong, China, has laid the keel for Jan De Nul’s new offshore jack-up installation vessel Voltaire. It will be the first vessel of its kind on the market able to...Read more
Wagenborg is supporting Van Oord with the construction of Windpark Fryslân in the Dutch lake IJsselmeer. From March to June this year, Van Oord will be installing 89 turbines at the site. Using tugs and...Read more
Cadeler has secured the largest contract in its history. The company has been hired to transport and install Siemens Gamesa’s new 14-MW offshore wind turbines in a contract with a value of USD 90 million. Read more
Offshore Heavy Transport’s (OHT) new heavy-lift vessel Alfa Lift has been launched at the China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard in Jiangsu. The preparations to install the vessel’s 3000-tonne main crane are now in full swing.Read more
DEME Offshore has been awarded a contract for the transport and installation of the jackets and topsides for two Hollandse Kust offshore substations. The company will also supply and install scour protection for both substations.Read more
Offshore installation vessels may soon be hard to come by. According to Alexander Fløtre, Vice President Offshore Wind at Rystad Energy, both offshore wind activity and offshore wind components will continue to grow. Additional vessels...Read more
Jumbo has completed the transport part of its largest transport and installation job to date. Using its heavy lift vessels as well as subcontracted deck carriers forty monopiles, 120 monopile sections and forty transition pieces...Read more
Heerema has been working on developing “silent foundations” that can be installed without loud hammering, which can be harmful to marine life and requires noise mitigation systems that produce a considerable CO2 footprint. DNV GL...Read more
Heerema Fabrication Group will construct the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore transformer substation jacket. The contract for this was signed with Iemants (part of Smulders). The jacket will be 44 metres high and consists of 1600...Read more
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 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 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
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 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
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
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 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
