Heerema completes jacket installation for Hornsea 2 substations
PRESS RELEASE – Heerema’s heavy-lift vessel Sleipnir has completed its second project in the wind sector this season; the transportation and installation of two foundation jackets for Ørsted’s Hornsea 2 wind farm. The jackets will...Read more
Tony Millward to lead OHT’s turbine installation business
PRESS RELEASE – Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) has hired Tony Millward to head up the company’s WTG Installation Business. Millward joins OHT from DEME Offshore, where he during his 12 years held various positions including...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: Installation vessels can already operate on hydrogen today
Ulstein has designed its second hydrogen hybrid installation vessel for the offshore wind industry, the Ulstein J102. It can operate in zero-emission mode 75% of the time using readily available technology. “We have designed a...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
Shell cuts up to 9,000 jobs in sustainability push
Shell will cut 7,000 to 9,000 jobs as part of a large-scale business transformation aimed at making the company sustainable. The oil major wants to grow its chemicals and biofuels production while also looking at...Read moreAker Solutions awarded Breidablikk contract by Equinor
PRESS RELEASE – Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Equinor for the delivery of a subsea production system for the Breidablikk development in the North Sea. The contract value is estimated at about...Read more
Liebherr and Deme will repair Orion’s crane
Crane manufacturer Liebherr and offshore contractor Deme have decided to repair the 5000-tonne crane of installation vessel “Orion”, which collapsed almost six months ago in Rostock during an overload test. Read more
US extends Jones Act to cover offshore wind industry
The United States House of Representatives has adopted new legislation that extends the Jones Act to also cover offshore wind-related activities. This means that all transports between a US port to a point within 200...Read more
Jumbo moves first batch for its largest contract yet
Jumbo is advancing with its largest contract to date, the Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm. Jumbo has been hired to transport the monopiles and other components as well as installing 80 transition pieces. The first 10...Read more
Swire Blue Ocean plans large-scale fleet upgrade
Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) has big plans to upgrade its fleet. The contractor intends to order a new installation vessel with an option for a second ship and plans to invest in new cranes for...Read more
OHT also secures installation contract for Dogger Bank B
PRESS RELEASE – Following July’s contract announcement for the transport and installation of foundations at Dogger Bank A, Offshore Heavy Transport has just announced that it has also secured the contract for the second phase,...Read more
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
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
Breakbulk Americas is the latest event to bite the dust due to Covid-19
Breakbulk Americas is the latest event to have been cancelled as the coronavirus pandemic remains cause to prohibit events and restrict international travel. Organizer Hyve Group has rescheduled the event to return to Houston from...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.Read more
Svanen uses bubbles to silently install offshore foundations in Denmark
PRESS RELEASE – 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...Read more
Floating wind and bridge sections contracts for Boskalis
PRESS RELEASE – 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...Read more