‘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
DEME’s new turbine installation ship recovers electricity from waste heat
Belgian dredging company DEME and Taiwanese shipbuilding group CSBC have recently begun construction of the floating and heavy lift installation vessel Green Jade for the Taiwanese offshore wind market. To reduce its carbon footprint, the...Read more
European Commission wants 25 times more wind turbines at sea
The European Commission wants to increase offshore wind energy generation 25-fold over the next thirty years. In ten years’ time, offshore wind turbines will have to supply five times more energy. To meet these targets,...Read more
GE’s 13-MW wind turbine in Rotterdam sets new record
GE’s Haliade-X turbine has just set a new record: the prototype in Rotterdam produced 312 MWh in a single 24-hour period. With this, it breaks the previous record of 288 MWh in a single day.Read more
DNV GL publishes integrated class rules for floating offshore wind
As the first successful pilots transition into the first commercial projects, floating offshore wind is opening up new vistas to offshore wind generation. To help expand the segment, DNV GL has released the first integrated...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
Coastwise and NG Shipyards to build second Monomaran
Coastwise Offshore Services and Next Generation (NG) Shipyards on Lauwersoog have signed a contract for a second Monomaran, type Endurance class NG 2727. The crew tender design provides the stability of a traditional catamaran and...Read more
UWL takes delivery of new deck carrier BraveWind
United Wind Logistics (UWL) has taken delivery of its second newbuild deck carrier, the MV BraveWind. The vessel is currently on its way to Europe carrying barges from Nantong in China to the port of...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
Van Oord becomes co-owner of Estonian offshore wind farm
Van Oord is now a shareholder in Saare Wind Energy. The latter is developing the Saaremaa offshore wind farm south-west of the Estonian island Saaremaa. The 200-km2 area is to facilitate an offshore wind farm...Read more
Geo-data specialist Fugro looking for more capital to diversify its business
Dutch multinational Fugro intends to issue EUR 250 million worth of shares in order to strengthen its financial position. An expiring credit facility of EUR 575 million will be refinanced for EUR 425 million. The...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
New Tetrahedron crane can increase lift capacity of existing jack-ups
Tetrahedron has designed a new crane for the installation of next-generation offshore wind turbines. Based on a fundamentally different motion principle and an efficient structural load transfer, the crane lifts higher than alternatives and can...Read more‘Booming offshore wind drags contractors through corona crisis’
Branching out into offshore wind has been the right decision for Dutch companies like Van Oord and Boskalis. SWZ|Maritime’s Editor-in-Chief Antoon Oosting points out they can now benefit from the increase in offshore wind projects...Read more
US approval in principle for Damen’s new Fast Crew Supplier
Damen Shipyards Group’s Fast Crew Supplier 2710 has received an approval in principle from ABS. This is an important step towards Damen’s next generation Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) being used to support the developing US...Read more
Van Oord places oyster reefs at Dutch offshore wind farm
Van Oord, as part of Two Towers, is conducting research relating to the restoration of European flat oyster beds. To investigate methods for the development of oyster reefs at offshore locations, a total of eight...Read more
OHT signs contract for first jack-up installation vessel
Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) has signed a contract with China Merchants Industry Holdings for the construction of the first of two turbine installation vessels. The Norwegian offshore carrier is creating a pure-play offshore wind company...Read more
Ulstein presents zero-emission turbine installation vessel design
Ulstein’s has presented its second hydrogen hybrid design for the offshore wind industry, the Ulstein J102. It can operate in zero emission mode 75 per cent of the time using readily available technology. ‘We have...Read more