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
Diversify and innovate: Offshore special in SWZ|Maritime
The picture on the front of the September offshore special of SWZ|Maritime is a perfect illustration of what the real entrepreneurs do to survive in an ever faster changing world and economy. In this issue,...Read more
Vroon to recycle three platform supply vessels
Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) has decided to dispose of three platform supply vessels (PSVs), with the aim of “right-sizing” its PSV fleet. The vessels, VOS Power, VOS Producer and VOS Prominence, were built between 2006...Read more
Ampelmann introduces W2W services to the East Coast of India
Ampelmann has signed a contract with offshore engineering and construction company McDermott. This is the first project in which an Ampelmann system, in this case the A-type Enhanced Performance (AEP), is used offshore on the...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
First Dutch delivery for Damen’s latest Fast Crew Supplier design
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710 to Rederij Groen. It is the first delivery of this new FCS type in the Netherlands. The vessel has been named Green Waves.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
Coastwise and Next Generation to build offshore support ‘Monomaran’
Coastwise Offshore Services and Next Generation Shipyards plan to build an energy-efficient and fuel-saving aluminium ship for the offshore wind industry in the Dutch province of Groningen. The new vessel type, a Monomaran, will combine...Read more
Heerema’s Balder installs the Pemex Yaxche-C offshore platform
Heerema’s semi submersible crane vessel Balder has installed Pemex’s Yaxche-C jacket and topside on behalf of Cotemar S.A. de C.V. The jacket weighed 700 metric tonnes, the four skirt piles 125 metric tonnes each, and...Read more
Pioneering Spirit removes 14,200-t Ninian offshore platform in single lift
Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed its third and final decommissioning job of 2020. The single-lift removal of the North Sea’s 14,200-tonne Ninian Northern topsides for CNR International (CNRI) took two hours to...Read more
Bankruptcies imminent in offshore sector
The offshore sector is likely to be the scene of a wave of major bankruptcies in the coming years. Bloomberg states this after consulting several countries in the sector.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
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
Oil field services provider Schlumberger cuts 21,000 jobs
Schlumberger is cutting 21,000 jobs in response to the pandemic and related oil crisis. CEO Olivier le Peuch says the second quarter ‘has probably been the most challenging quarter in the past decades.’ The company...Read more
Video: Load-out and commissioning of IHC pipelay system
Royal IHC has delivered a J-Lay system after one of the most complex mobilisation operations ever seen in the North East of England. It will be installed onto ZPMC’s multi-purpose vessel the JSD6000 in China...Read more
Sleipnir performs its largest single lift jacket removal to date
Heerema’s semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has removed the 8100-metric-tonne Jotun-B jacket in the Norwegian North Sea for Vår Energi. During this project, skirt piles with diameters of 2.7 metres and 80 millimetres wall thickness were...Read more