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Acta Marine Christens Vestas-Chartered CSOV Newbuild

Oct 02, 2026

Dutch offshore vessel owner Acta Marine has christened its commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) Acta Hercules in IJmuiden, the Netherlands, as the company moves closer to completing its four-vessel newbuild program.Acta Hercules was…

DNV Backs Blue Ammonia FPSO Concept from BW Offshore and McDermott

Oct 02, 2026

BW Offshore's blue ammonia floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) concept, jointly developed with McDermott, has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from DNV, advancing the proposed offshore low-carbon ammonia production solution towards further design development…

Golden Energy’s PSV Gets Two New Charters

Oct 02, 2026

Golden Energy Offshore Services (GEOS) has secured two new charter contracts for its large platform supply vessel (PSV) Energy Swan with a combined estimated firm value of about $8.7 million.The first contract has a firm duration of about one month…

LNG Flows Through Hormuz Hit Seven-Month High

Oct 02, 2026

The number of liquefied natural gas cargoes exiting the Strait of Hormuz rose in September to its highest monthly level since the US-Israeli war on Iran began, data from analytics firms show, despite persistent security worries and uncertainty…

Siemens Energy Picks EST-Floattech for Marco Polo's CSOV Battery System

Oct 01, 2026

Siemens Energy has contracted EST-Floattech to supply a battery system of more than 1 MWh for Marco Polo Marine's new CSOV Plus, a vessel designed to work in both offshore wind and oil and gas operations.The Octopus High Energy battery system…

DEME Installs Final Monopile at Nordlicht I Offshore Wind Farm

Oct 01, 2026

DEME has installed the 68th and final monopile at Vattenfall's 980 MW Nordlicht I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, completing the project's monopile installation campaign.The milestone follows installation of the first monopile in July and the first transition piece in August…

IWS Places $300M Order for Four New Skywalker-Class CSOVs

Oct 01, 2026

Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS) subsidiary IWS Fleet has ordered four Skywalker-class commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) for a combined firm yard price of around $301 million (€260 million), expanding its owned fleet from six to 10 CSOVs…

Boskalis Set to Install Inter-Array Cables at Zeevonk Offshore Wind Farm

Oct 01, 2026

Boskalis has secured a contract to transport and install inter-array cables for the first phase of the Zeevonk Offshore Wind Farm in the Dutch North Sea.The contract, awarded by Zeevonk, a joint venture between Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP)…

Windward Offshore Names New CSOV

Sep 30, 2026

Windward Offshore celebrated the official naming of its Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV), Windward Munich, in Hamburg on September 22, bringing together customers, partners and representatives from the Offshore Wind and Maritime Industries at the dawn of WindEnergy Hamburg…

Solstad Maritime Secures APAC Drilling Support Work for AHTS Pair

Sep 30, 2026

Solstad Maritime has been awarded contracts for two anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTS) for drilling support work in the Asia-Pacific region.The combined firm value estimated at the upper end of a $10 million and $30 million range, according to the Norwegian vessel owner…

Dajin Picks Ulstein Design for Offshore Installation Vessel

Sep 28, 2026

Dajin Heavy Industry has selected Ulstein's ULSTEIN HX122 design for an offshore installation vessel capable of installing future 4XL monopiles, expanding the offshore wind foundation supplier's activities into offshore installation.The vessel…

Fugro Completes Ultra-Deepwater Survey for Petronas

Sep 28, 2026

Fugro has completed an ultra-deepwater geohazard site survey for Petronas Carigali's Megah and Limbayong fields off Sabah, East Malaysia, using autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology.The offshore campaign ran from June to August 2026…

Mermaid Maritime Forms Nigerian Subsea Joint Venture

Sep 28, 2026

Mermaid Maritime has established a joint venture with Nigerian oilfield services company Marine Platforms Limited to pursue subsea work for TotalEnergies Nigeria and other oil and gas operators in the country.The new company, Mermaid Subsea Services Limited…

Qatar-Linked LNG Tankers Resume Hormuz Transits

Sep 28, 2026

More QatarEnergy-linked liquefied natural gas vessels, laden and in ballast, have transited the Strait of Hormuz in the last week despite the US-Iran conflict.In August, Kpler data showed no visible transits by Qatar-linked LNG vessels or vessels carrying cargoes from the Ras Laffan gas terminal…

LD Armateurs Adds Multi-Purpose Vessel to its Fleet

Sep 25, 2026

Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LD Armateurs) has taken delivery of the DP2 multipurpose support vessel TVO Mariner for its LD TravOcean subsidiary, expanding its capacity for subsea cable installation, repair and protection work.The vessel, delivered to the group in mid-September…

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