Fairhurst, a privately owned Partnerships of Consulting Engineers in the UK, has secured permits for the project on behalf of Shepherd Offshore Group.Read more
The 88 MW Hywind Tampen offshore wind farm is the world’s largest. It is also the first to power offshore oil and gas platforms. It produced power for the first time on Sunday, 13 November...Read more
The Norwegian shortsea liner shipping company, Wilson, has welcomed the fifth and last Wilson Flex vessel to its fleet. The newly built vessel will operate in the Baltic sea, North Sea, Mediterranean and the Black sea.Read more
Neptune Energy Group and Well-Safe Solutions have signed a $30 million contract for the decommissioning of over 20 wells in eight Dutch and UK North Sea gas fields. It is the first time contract for...Read more
Heerema Marine Contractors have removed the Murdoch Accommodation platform, Murdoch Compression platform, and Murdoch Drilling platform, in the British North Sea. This natural gas collection, processing and transportation system operated between 1993 and 2018.Read more
Allseas has completed the installation of TenneT’s 900-megawatt DolWin6 kappa offshore converter station for the offshore grid connection system in the German North Sea – including piling of jacket foundations. This 12-day operation, completed on...Read more
Steelwind Nordenham, a Dillinger Group company, has signed an agreement to build and deliver 64 steel monopile foundations for the He Dreiht offshore wind farm, under development by Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW). The contract between the...Read more
The maritime logistics conglomerate, Royal Wagenborg has begun a mobilising project, including its full logistics scope, in line with a long-term contract with the industrial holding company, NKT.
In the next seven weeks, three cable-laying barges...Read more
Allseas’ heavy lift colossus Pioneering Spirit has delivered the new module for CNOOC International’s Buzzard Phase II development in the North Sea’s Outer Moray Firth, east of Scotland.Read more
SalvageDue to the weather in the area around the listing Eemslift Hendrika, the salvage operation has to be postponed until Thursday morning 8 April, reports the Norwegian Coast Guard. The ship has been adrift since...Read more
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
OffshorePRESS Release – Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed her third and final decommissioning job of 2020, a single-lift removal of the North Sea’s 14,200-tonne Ninian Northern topsides for CNR International (CNRI). Read more
DecommissioningMaersk Supply Service has been awarded a contract by Fairfield Betula Limited for the removal of the Dunlin Alpha platform’s subsea conductors and guide frames.Read more
DecommissioningWith few profitable investment opportunities left as a result of the coronavirus, oil companies will likely increase their spending on decommissioning contracts. Global projects through 2024 could reach a value of 42 billion dollars, say...Read more
OffshorePRESS 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 21. The vessel arrives to prepare for future decommissioning work...Read more
ShortseaPRESS RELEASE – Meriaura Shipping has added a new ship to its fleet, the 4,450 dwt M/V Friendland. According to the company, the vessel has a favourable dead weight/volume ratio (7200 m3) and is, therefore,...Read more
DecommissioningFred. Olsen WIndcarrier has completed its first-ever decommissioning contract with the removal of Perenco UK’s Tyne and Guinevere gas platforms, which were stationed in the Southern North Sea.
The offshore work commenced in December 2019 and...Read more
Maersk’s new offshore decommissioning business, Maersk Decom, has secured its first commercial contract. Perenco has booked the company to remove and recycle the subsea infrastructure of its Thames field in the UK North Sea.
The project...Read more
ro-roSwedish ro-ro experts Wallenius and Swedish Orient Lines (SOL) have formed a new shipping company to ship forest products and other goods on the North Sea, Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. The new...Read more
DecommissioningJumbo has been awarded an offshore decommissioning project in the North Sea by TAQA Energy, involving the removal, transportation and disposal of three subsea protection domes and piles.
The removal operation will take place in the...Read more
