Swire eyes GustoMSC designed wind farm installation jack-up
Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) intends to order a new offshore installation vessel with an option for a second new-build. The vessel is based on GustoMSC’s NG-20000X-G design. At the same time, the company plans to...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
Dominion orders Huisman crane for first Jones Act installation vessel
Dominion Energy has selected Huisman Equipment to fabricate the crane for the United States’ first Jones Act compliant offshore wind installation vessel. Huisman joins a consortium of offshore wind industry leaders to build the vessel,...Read more
Sif scraps Vinyard offshore wind farm from order book
Dutch Sif Group has definitively cancelled the order for the delivery of the foundations for the first large American offshore wind farm, Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. This is evident from an explanation by...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
Huisman’s Skyhook crane lifts first batch of monopiles
With the 2600-metric-tonne Skyhook, Huisman has designed and built the largest Slewing Jib Quayside Crane in the world. It has now lifted its first batch of offshore wind monopiles. The monopiles with a length of...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
Jan de Nul installs its first foundations in Taiwanese waters
Jan de Nul Group has installed its first jacket foundations in Taiwanese waters. The work was carried out for the Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 demonstration project of Taiwan Power Corporation (TPC), which is located off...Read more
Jan de Nul awarded turbine installation contract at Doggers Bank
Jan de Nul Group has won the wind turbine transport and installation contract for the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK, which will be powered with GE’s 12 MW Haliade-X wind turbines....Read more
OHT orders two new installation vessels citing capacity concerns
Offshore Heavy Transport has ordered two new installation vessels with China Merchants Heavy Industry. “We are responding to client concerns about the lack of capable vessel capacity in the booming offshore wind market”, says CEO...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
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
Offshore structures may be protected by Autonomous Guard Vessels
A consortium of maritime companies has revealed the concept design of an Autonomous Guard Vessel. The futuristic looking design is to support the offshore industry by exploiting technology available today. It is designed to be...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