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
Pioneering Spirit booked to remove disused gas platforms in the Irish Sea
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, the largest vessel in the world, will travel to the Irish Sea this year to remove two normally unmanned installations in the East Irish Sea. The 11,000-tonne platforms owned by Spirit Energy...Read more
Boskalis acquires subsea services specialist Rever Offshore
Boskalis has bought all the shares of Rever Offshore’s subsea services business. Rever, formally known as Bibby Offshore, offers a broad range of solutions in the area of subsea construction, inspection, repair and 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
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
Jan De Nul buys large cable layer from Ocean Yield
Jan De Nul Group will acquire the offshore construction and cable-lay vessel Connector from Ocean Yield ASA. The Connector is one of the largest and most advanced subsea installation and construction vessels available in the...Read more
Neptune plans to capture CO2 in depleted Dutch North Sea gas fields
Neptune Energy has announced a feasibility study into plans for a large-scale offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Dutch North Sea, with the potential to safely store 120-150 million tonnes of CO2....Read more
Wagenborg to add third walk-to-work vessel to its fleet
After a tender process, Wagenborg Offshore has signed an agreement for the deployment of a walk-to-work Emergency Response and Rescue Vessel (W2W EERV). An existing platform supply ship, the SK728, will be converted into Wagenborg’s...Read more
Construction kicks off for Jan De Nul’s new 5000-tonne crane vessel
First steel has been cut for Jan De Nul’s new crane vessel Les Alizés. With its 5000-tonne crane, the floating installation vessel will mainly be used for wind farm construction, but it is also suitable...Read more
Solar and seaweed farm combined at sea for the first time
Oceans of Energy and The Seaweed Company have installed offshore solar and seaweed farms at the North Sea Farmers Test Site, twelve kilometres off the coast of Scheveningen. The farms use the same space to...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
Pacific Drilling latest rig operator to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
New York-listed Pacific Drilling is the latest rig operator to file for a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US to get out of a major debt. Several other rig operators have made a similar...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
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
Swire Blue Ocean becomes Cadeler and goes public
Swire Pacific Offshore plans to list its subsidiary Swire Blue Ocean on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company will also undergo a thorough rebranding process and will be renamed Cadeler. The move comes on the...Read more