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The first out of the 27 Vestas V174 – 9.5MW turbines has successfully been installed at the Arcadis Ost 1 wind farm. Using a unique floating installation method, Parkwind, together with Heerema Marine Contractors and Vestas, marks an industry premiere in wind turbine installation on commercial scale. The plan to use a floating installation method..

Dutch maritime research institute MARIN has tested three innovative barriers aimed at averting collisions between ships and wind turbines. The research was prompted by the incident involving the Julietta D on 31 January this year. This drifting bulk carrier initially collided with a tanker before hitting a transformer platform and a turbine foundation for the..

Petrogas E&P Netherlands has awarded Heerema an integrated engineering, preparation, removal, and disposal (EPRD) decommissioning contract for multiple North Sea oil platforms. The work involves removing the Haven, Hoorn, Helm, and Helder platforms from Block Q1 of the Dutch sector in the southern North Sea. The execution of the offshore removals will take place over..

Sleipnir successfully installed the 12,050t Johan Sverdrup processing platform (P2) jacket, setting a new record for the heaviest lift jacket installation. This lift comes after the inshore integration of the three P2 topside modules on behalf of client Aibel at the GMC yard in Gismarvik in May. This mating process included the heaviest crane lift..

The world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has safely installed Dana Petroleum’s new P11-Unity platform, which at 395 metric tons is one of the world’s smallest platforms. Heerema was contracted for the transportation and installation of P11-Unity by HSM Offshore, who fabricated the platform at their yard in Schiedam, The Netherlands. On 22 October, Sleipnir..

Heerema Fabrication Group is happy to announce the award of the fabrication of the Greater Changhua Pre-Piling Template for Heerema Marine Contractors. The pre-piling template is a tool that enables Heerema Marine Contractors to install the piles accurately. It consists of three pile sleeves connected by framing including hydraulically adjustable pile guides and mudmats. Heerema..

Heerema Marine Contractors will provide its crane vessels with clean energy. By switching off the diesel generators, total emissions will be reduced by the equivalent of the annual emissions of approximately 5,000 diesel cars. Eneco will supply power from the onshore windfarm on Landtong Rozenburg. Heerema’s crane vessels are often moored in the Calandkanaal in..

Another prestigious contract is awarded to Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) for an offshore wind project in Taiwan, this time in the middle of Taiwan. The Greater Changhua offshore wind projects consist of four sites in the Taiwan Strait, from 35km to 60km off the coast of Changhua County. Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted has obtained..

Three leaders in the Oil & Gas industry’s decommissioning sector have launched a new company: Fairfield Decom. Headquartered in Aberdeen, this new platform combines the knowledge of a highly experienced operator with the expertise and capabilities of the world’s leading offshore decommissioning contractors. Through this step, a late-life operations and decommissioning operator is created to..

Yesterday, the last module of the Johan Sverdrup riser platform was lifted into place. With this, the first of four topsides of the next North Sea giant has been installed. “It is a special feeling to see the first Johan Sverdrup platform in place, even a few days ahead of the plan set more than..

Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is pleased to announce an additional contract award related to the Maersk Oil Tyra Redevelopment Project. Following the award of the transportation and installation contract for the processing & accommodation platform earlier this year, Maersk Oil has awarded an additional contract to HMC for extensive offshore lifting services in the Tyra..

MeeMaken BV, the participation company and investment fund that became owner of Dutch offshore crane supplier Kenz Figee Group in 2016, has appointed Jan Pieter Klaver as new CEO of Kenz Figee Group. Mr Klaver worked at Heerema for 26 years in a variety of positions, at the former Norwegian yard of Heerema and at Dockwise amongst..

Independent Oil and Gas is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Heerema Fabrication Group. (HFG) for Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) and Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) of up to four Normally Unmanned Installation platforms (NUIs). The NUIs will be utilised for IOG’s Southern North Sea..

In August and September, Aquality has supplied eight Automatic Cooling Water Treatment Systems to Sembcorp Marine, Singapore for the Heerema Sleipnir Project. With these units, the wish of Heerema has been implemented to control and monitor the water quality of as well the LT as HT cooling water circuits of the twelve MAN Main Engines..

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has been awarded the Procurement & Construction contract of the Albatros Offshore Transformer Module by Siemens. The ultimate client is EnBW Energy. The OTM is part of the Albatros offshore windfarm. This offshore wind project, with sixteen Siemens Gamesa wind turbines, each with a capacity of 7MW, is located 105km from..

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has completed construction of the Culzean jackets for client Maersk Oil North Sea UK. At Heerema Vlissingen, one of two production locations of HFG in the Netherlands, the jacket for the central processing facilities platform (CPF) set sail on 28 June and the jacket for the utility & living quarter platform..

At Heerema Zwijndrecht, one of the production locations of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), the topside for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 Unmanned Wellhead Platform sailed out on Sunday 25 June. The jacket followed on Monday 26 June. In February 2016, Statoil awarded Heerema the contract for the EPC as well as the transport and installation of..

Heerema Fabrication Group has been awarded the Procurement & Construction contract of the Peregrino II Jacket by South Atlantic Holding on behalf of the Statoil Peregrino II project. Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven, CEO of Heerema Fabrication Group, states: “We are delighted that we have been able to secure this contract. With the Valemon jacket, the Gina..

Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland (HMC) and partner AF Gruppen (AFG) have received notice that ConocoPhillips Skandinavia intend to enter into a contract with HMC for the removal and disposal of platforms connected to the Ekofisk field in the North Sea. The contract includes Engineering, Preparation, Removal & Disposal (EPRD) of four platforms with a total..

On Monday 17 April, Huisman celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Chinese production facility, Huisman China. Since its opening on 17 April 2007, Huisman China has delivered a significant contribution to the overall Huisman engineering and production capacity. The delivery of the 100th crane in 2015 signifies the added value of the Chinese Huisman production..

Huisman is currently producing world’s largest bearings at its production facility in China. These two, 30m diameter, bearings are meant for world’s largest tub cranes: the two 10,000mt Huisman designed cranes which are under construction for Heerema’s new semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir. Since 2012, Huisman has been designing and constructing small bearings with a diameter..

Huisman has secured a contract from Japan Marine United for the delivery of one 800t Pedestal Mounted Crane (PMC) and a contract from Jurong Shipyard for the delivery of one 100t Pedestal Mounted Offshore Crane (PMOC). Both cranes will be built at Huisman China, the delivery of the 800t PMC is planned for April 2018,..

Heerema Marine Contractors has awarded Kenz Cranes with a contract for the design and production of two knuckle boom cranes for its vessel DCV Aegir. The two Kenz knuckle boom cranes will be replacement cranes for the current knuckle boom cranes on the deepwater construction vessel Aegir. Kenz Cranes will design a 200t active heave..

Mammoet, one of the world’s largest service provider specializing in engineered heavy lifting and transport, has successfully completed the load-out and transport of heavy components for Marathon Oil’s Alba B3 compression platform. The components include a topside and jacket built in the Netherlands and a flare and bridge built in Equatorial Guinea. The topside and jacket were..

8 January at 2 pm, the Pieter Schelte has arrived in Rotterdam. With a length of 382m and a phenomenal width of 124m, this is the biggest ship in the world. It was designed and developed by the Dutch-Swiss offshore company Allseas. The Pieter Schelte will spend the next four months in Rotterdam undergoing final..