Dutch start-up designs crane to reach largest offshore wind turbines
Wind turbines at sea are getting bigger and higher. The Rotterdam startup Tetrahedron has developed an innovative crane that makes existing lifting platforms suitable for installation of this new generation of wind turbines. In order to...Read more
Video: Installation of pipelay ramp onto reel-lay vessel Seven Vega
Royal IHC has reached a milestone in the completion of the reel-lay vessel Seven Vega for Subsea 7. The twin tensioner pipelay ramp was installed onto the vessel. The whole operation was caught on camera. When...Read more
Kenzfigee introduces new subsea crane
KenzFigee has designed a new rope actuated knuckle boom subsea crane. The crane is to improve operational safety and workability and offers a lifting capacity from approximately 400 to 2000 tonnes. The crane was designed using...Read more
Royal IHC is ready to take on deepsea mining
‘Deepsea mining is not an adventure for the quick and easy,’ says Laurens de Jonge, Manager Marine Mining at Royal IHC. Still, Royal IHC now has the knowledge to engineer the required solution once a...Read more
First LNG delivery for DEME’s offshore installation vessel Orion
In the second ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation to take place in Germany, the world’s largest LNG bunker vessel Kairos, operated by Nauticor, has supplied LNG to DEME’s next generation offshore installation vessel Orion. For the...Read more
Van Oord joins Estonian offshore wind development
Van Oord and Saare Wind Energy join forces and will mutually develop the Saaremaa offshore wind farm. Saare Wind Energy is an Estonian developer involved in developing the offshore wind farm, covering 154 square kilometres,...Read more
Offshore vessel to be retrofitted with ammonia-powered fuel cell
An innovation project looking to install the world’s first ammonia-powered fuel cell on a ship has been awarded ten-million-euro funding from the European Union. The offshore vessel involved is the Viking Energy, which will receive...Read more
Electric crawler uses waterjets to pick up nodules from ocean floor
Royal IHC has developed a fully electric crawler with a hydraulic collector as part of its deepsea mining solution. With hydraulic ‘we mean we collect the nodules with waterjets,’ says Wiebe Boomsma, Manager R&D at...Read more
Damen introduces offshore vessel design with methanol option
Damen has developed a new concept vessel – the Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) 9020. The ship features a stable platform with good station-keeping capability, low carbon emissions and flexibility to add mission-specific tools. The vessel...Read more
Royal IHC Develops Six-kilometre Riser System for Deepsea Mining
‘Vertical transport over a five- to six-kilometre vertical distance has its challenges,’ admits Laurens de Jonge, Manager Marine Mining at Royal IHC. As part of the EU subsidised programme Blue Mining, the company developed a...Read more
Construction of Dutch Borssele 1+2 Wind Farm Kicks off
The Danish company Ørsted has begun the construction of the Borssele 1+2 wind farm. The first foundations of this wind farm off coast of the Dutch province of Zeeland have been completed. The first monopile was...Read more
Van Oord Partners with NYK in Offshore Wind Vessels in Japan
Van Oord and NYK have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly own and operate offshore wind installation vessels under the Japanese flag. The collaboration is using Van Oord’s technical and operational expertise in...Read more
‘Energy Transition Will Drive Deepsea Mining’
The energy transition requires a lot of resources and materials. ‘Eventually there will be a shift from oil and gas to mining the metals you need,’ says Wiebe Boomsma, Manager R&D at Royal IHC. ‘After...Read more
Allseas CEO: ‘Stopping Nordstream 2 Hurts Our Honour’
In an interview, Allseas CEO Edward Heerema said stopping Nordstream 2 was first and foremost damaging to the company’s sense of honour. ‘It’s a disappointment, we really wanted to take credit for it,’ he says. Allseas...Read more
Dutch Consortium Investigates Onboard Carbon Capture
Recent tests at Dutch research institute TNO have shown the technical feasibility of capturing CO2 directly from exhaust gases. In a new research project, DERISCO2, ship-based carbon capture will be prepared for piloting. The target...Read more
Newly Installed Dutch Offshore Solar Farm Survives First Storms
Oceans of Energy, a consortium of six Dutch companies, has installed the first modules of the world’s first offshore floating solar farm in the Dutch North Sea, fifteen kilometres off the coast of Scheveningen. The...Read more
Bourbon Receives Four Takeover Offers, Extends Deadline
Bourbon Corporation has received four takeover offers since the holding company suspended its listing and started a reorganisation procedure to deal with its severe financial problems. The Commercial Court in France has now extended the...Read more
Heerema Develops Offshore Wind Construction Method Using Floating Vessel
Offshore wind farm Arcadis Ost 1 in Germany will be the first to make use of a floating vessel for the installation of wind turbine generators. This construction technology is the result of a year-long...Read more