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
The French offshore group Bourbon has installed the first floating wind turbine on the North Sea. The wind turbine was positioned at the Kincardine wind farm, fifteen kilometres off the coast of Aberdeen.
This reports the...Read more
Shell, Deme and Quadran Energies Marines from France will join forces for the tender for the construction, operation and maintenance of a new offshore wind farm in the French section of the North Sea.
To this...Read more
Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) has been commissioned by Stena Drilling to perform an upgrade of the semi-submersible drilling rig ‘Stena Don’.
The colossal rig (96 by 67 metres) needs to be fitted with an eight-point mooring...Read more
GeoSea, a subsidiary of Belgian dredging and marine engineering group company DEME, has taken delivery of the self-propelled jack-up vessel Apollo, that was built in Croatia. In Flushing (Vlissingen) it has been mobilised for its...Read more
Ports seeking to attract project cargo should predominantly focus on the cargo stakeholders. Ultimately, they select the seaport through which the cargo will be directed. The shipping lines and their vessels are following in this...Read more
