Jumbo calls on Solis to mobilise vessel in Covid-19 workaround
Jumbo Offshore partnered with Solis Marine to prepare its vessel Jumbo Javelin for the transport and installation works at the Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan, after the company’s engineering team itself was unable to...Read more
Swire Blue Ocean wins Seagreen installation contract
MHI Vestas has awarded Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) the transportation and installation contract for the Seagreen offshore windfarm, which is set to become the biggest offshore wind farm in Scotland. A total of 114 10...Read more
Patrick Schorn to become new CEO at Borr Drilling
PRESS RELEASE – Borr Drilling has appointed Patrick Schorn as its new Chief Executive Officer with effect from 8 September 2020. He will succeed Svend Anton Maier who will remain with the company as a...Read more
Jan de Nul wins Doggers Bank turbine installation contract
Jan de Nul Group has won the wind turbine transport and installation contract for the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK, which will be powered with GE’s 12 MW Haliade-X wind turbines....Read more
Scorpio Bulkers plans to enter wind turbine installation market
Dry bulk carrier Scorpio Bulkers has announced plans to enter the renewables market. The Monaco-based carrier has signed a letter of intent for the construction of a new installation vessel with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine...Read more
Jan de Nul and BBC deliver first batch of pin piles for Formosa 2
PRESS RELEASE – Jan De Nul Group has started transportation of the pin piles for the 376 MW Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm. The first batch of 26 pin piles was loaded on the transportation...Read more
OHT orders new installation vessels in response to “capacity concerns”
Offshore Heavy Transport has ordered two new installation vessels with China Merchants Heavy Industry. “We are responding to client concerns about the lack of capable vessel capacity in the booming offshore wind market”, says CEO...Read more
Van Oord to construct Hollandse Kust North 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
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
Allseas develops waste collector for rivers
Using the wind and currents to intercept waste, Allseas has revealed a new waste collection system for rivers called Catchy. The system is designed to catch both large waste floating on the surface and smaller...Read more
Swire Blue Ocean lands contract for Scotland’s largest offshore windfarm
PRESS RELEASE – Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) will transport and install the wind turbine generators for the Seagreen offshore windfarm in Scotland. Seagreen is located 27 kilometres off the east coast of Scotland in the...Read more
Plans for larger ‘Pioneering Spirit’ shelved indefinitely
Offshore contractor Allseas has postponed the announced construction of a larger successor to the offshore platform remover Pioneering Spirit indefinitely. Before the corona crisis and the implosion of the oil price, the huge vessel was...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 meters and 80 millimeters wall thickness were...Read more
Aker Solutions posts better than expected results
Aker Solutions has recorded better than expected second-quarter results. Cost-saving measures and increased activity in existing projects have led to higher revenue, earnings and order-intake than anticipated following the outbreak of Covid-19. Read more
Seajacks’ Scylla takes over Orion’s job at Moray East windfarm
DEME has chartered Seajack’s installation vessel Scylla to take over the Moray East wind farm installation contract from its own vessel, Orion, which was heavily damaged in a last-minute crane accident. Despite this setback and...Read more
Shell to write off 20 billion dollars in assets, plans major reorganization
Royal Dutch Shell is preparing a major reorganization in response to the new oil crisis, which sees the company write off at least 20 billion dollars in assets in the previous quarter. “We will likely...Read more
DEME opts for Huisman crane for new installation vessel
DEME has opted for a Huisman crane for its new installation vessel Green Jade, which is being built in cooperation with Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC. The crane will be built at Huisman’s facility in China and...Read moreJumbo Javelin gets power upgrade for Yunlin installation contract
PRESS RELEASE – Alewijnse has finished the electrical conversion on board the heavy lift crane vessel Jumbo Javelin. For this conversion, the company engineered, manufactured and delivered several new switchboards and modified systems for power...Read more