Italian energy industry services firm Saipem said Monday it had won three new offshore contracts and two competitive FEED contracts totaling around $650 million.Azule Energy has assigned the first contract for the Agogo Full Field Development project…
Port of Aberdeen has welcomed more than 100 vessels working on offshore wind projects to the port so far this year, including the latest arrival of the Blue Tern jack-up installation vessel.Owned by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, the Blue Tern jack-up is a 151-meter-long…
Subsea services firm DeepOcean has taken the Olympic Ares multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) on a two-year charter. The vessel is owned by the Norwegian shipowner Olympic Subsea.The vessel is a modern construction support vessel equipped with a 250 Te crane…
Offshore installation company Jan De Nul has officially started the transportation and installation contract for the construction of Ørsted’s 242 MW Gode Wind 3 and 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany.The first batch of three…
A keel laying ceremony was held earlier this week for a Construction Service Operation Vessel ordered by Olympic in 2022 from Ulstein.The ceremony was held on March 14 at the hull yard CRIST. This is vessel number two, yard number (yno) 319…
Offshore installation company Ocean Installer has won a contract with Equinor for the installation of dynamic inter-array cables on Hywind Tampen in Norway.Hywind Tampen is the world’s largest floating wind farm and will be used to partially power Equinor's oil and gas platforms in the North Sea…
Houston-based Bleutec Industries announced it has received approval in principle (AIP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the designs of its Jones Act compliant offshore wind farm construction solution.Envisioned as an alternative to wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV)…
Dutch marine and offshore services firm Boskalis said Tuesday it had secured a multidisciplinary role in the development of the Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. On behalf of its client, Ocean Winds, Boskalis said it would carry out…
The maritime classification society DNV has, with its partners, launched a joint industry program to establish a monitoring and reporting framework for assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the offshore wind installation sector. The partners of the JIP called EMRED…
The crane for the first ever U.S.-built wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) is on its way to America.The 2,200mt Huisman leg encircling crane has been loaded onto BigLift Shipping's Happy Star for shipment to the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville…
Heerema Marine Contractors has installed the offshore substation topside on a four-legged steel jacket foundation at Iberdrola's Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm site in Germany, using its Thialf semi-submersible crane vessel.The offshore substation…
Offshore installation services company Subsea 7 said Friday it had won a 'sizable' vessel contract with the Brazilian oil company Petrobras.The contract is for the 145.9m pipelay support vessel (PLSV) Seven Cruzeiro off the coast of Brazil.…
Eni's subsidiary Eni Sustainable Mobility and offshore services company Saipem have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to utilize biofuels on Saipem's drilling and offshore construction vessels, focusing on operations in the Mediterranean Sea…
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Eidesvik Offshore has formed a joint venture with offshore services player Reach Subsea to acquire the subsea vessel Edda Sun. The new entity will own and operate the Edda Sun, with Eidesvik as majority stakeholder…
Norwegian marine electrical systems Vard Electro will supply its SeaQ Communication system onboard two construction service operation vessels (CSOVs) being built by Ulstein for end client Olympic. Vard Electro signed the contract with Ulstein…