Oil & Gas
Sleipnir installs one of world’s smallest platforms
PRESS RELEASE – Heerema’s Sleipnir has safely installed Dana Petroleum’s new P11-Unity platform, which at 395 metric tons is one of the world’s smallest platforms.…
Offshore wind
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…
Offshore wind
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…
Offshore wind
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…
Offshore wind
Jan de Nul installs its first foundations in Taiwanese waters
PRESS RELEASE – Jan de Nul Group has installed its first jacket foundations in Taiwanese waters. The work was carried out for the Offshore Windfarm…
Offshore wind
Heerema suffers dropfall incident while piling in Taiwan
Heerema has halted piling works for the Changhua offshore wind farm in Taiwan after installation vessel Aegir suffered a dropfall incident while installing a foundation.…
Equipment
This is how the world’s mightiest offshore cranes work
The giant cranes onboard crane vessels may all look similar, but crane specialists know better. Heerema Marine Contractors had important choices to make for the…
LNG
Record-breaking LNG bunkering for Heerema’s Sleipnir
PRESS RELEASE – Heerema’s Sleipnir received the largest LNG bunkering ever completed. Titan LNG organized the bunkering, using Anthony Veder’s LNG carrier Coral Fraseri in…
Offshore
World’s largest crane vessel to arrive in Rotterdam
PRESS RELEASE – The world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel, Heerema’s Sleipnir, will arrive in the Port of Rotterdam for the first time on Saturday, March…
Coronavirus
Heerema closes HQ in response to Dutch coronavirus measures
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has closed its headquarters in Leiden, the Netherlands in response to measures issued by the Dutch government. In an attempt to…
Heerema develops floating wind turbine installation method
Heerema Marine Contractors has signed an agreement with Parkwind and MHI Vestas for the first floating wind turbine installation. The newly developed method will simplify…
Construction
Heerema’s yard director Remco van Gilst steps down
PRESS RELEASE – After 29 years at the Heerema Group, Remco van Gilst is stepping down as managing director of Heerema Fabrication Group’s yard in…
Clean shipping
Heerema’s crane vessels to switch to wind power in port of Rotterdam
Heerema’s mighty crane vessels will soon be powered by wind energy when moored in the port of Rotterdam. By switching off the diesel generators, the…
Heerema’s Sleipnir sets new world record lifting 15,300 tonnes
Heerema has set a new world record lifting a module of 15,300 tonnes with its new heavy-lift vessel Sleipnir. Such a load has never been…
Sleipnir’s mighty cranes require mighty parts
Pintsch Bubenzer has installed a new type of brake on the two 10,000-metric ton cranes of Heerema’s Sleipnir, the world’s new largest crane vessel. The…
Vineyard Wind’s US offshore wind farm delayed
The construction of the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States, the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project, has been delayed due to the…
Offshore wind
Heerema lands another large wind contract in Taiwan
Heerema Marine Contractors has secured its second large offshore wind contract in Taiwan. Ørsted has contracted the company to transport and install 111 turbine foundations…
Heerema contracted for first commercial US wind farm
Dutch offshore contractor Heerema has been contracted to help build the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. The Vineyard Wind project is…
World's largest crane vessel
Sleipnir sets sail to first job after successful sea trials
Heerema Marine Contractor’s newest fleet addition, the world largest crane vessel Sleipnir, will soon set sail to Spain for its first installation project after successfully…
Offshore
Heerema installs 2,500-tonne cutter ladder on DEME’s Spartacus
Heerema’s “Swiss pocket knife” Aegir has successfully installed the 2,500 tonnes weighing cutter ladder into DEME’s new cutter suction dredger Spartacus, the largest and most…