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Royal IHC has reached agreement on the sale of IQIP Holding to HAL Investments (HAL). Royal IHC had initiated a WHOA (Homologation Private Agreement Act) proceeding to convince all financial stakeholders of their financial restructuring plan including the sale of IQIP. Last week the court ratified this plan, and today the transfer of the...

Supporting Scotland’s growing offshore energy sector, Inland and Coastal Marina Systems (ICMS) has installed a heavy-duty pontoon system in Eyemouth Harbour as part of the new operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Neart na Gaoith offshore wind farm. The bespoke pontoon system comprises a 58m x 4m pontoon and a 27m x 4m...

Belgian partners Tractebel, DEME, and Jan De Nul introduce Seavolt, a new offshore floating photovoltaic (PV) technology. This technology is a result of joint research and development, combining the expertise of solar, environmental, and offshore experts.  The Seavolt technology (patent pending) can withstand harsh offshore conditions while creating large surfaces that are protected from...

The Belgian consortium TM EDISON (Jan De Nul and DEME) has won the tender for the construction of the world’s first artificial energy island. The construction of the foundations of the Princess Elisabeth Island will begin in early 2024 and will last 2.5 years. After that, the installation of the high-voltage infrastructure can be...

Irish crew transfer vessel (CTV) owner and operator Farra Marine, has expanded its fleet of CTVs after ordering a further seven vessels from Singapore-based Penguin Shipyard International. The new CTVs – part of the WindFlex-27 series – will, when complete, see Farra Marine boast a fleet of fourteen CTVs servicing the UK and European...

The offshore wind industry gained four new recruits this week after they completed their training with East Coast College as part of a Military into Offshore Wind initiative. The programme aims to attract those seeking a new career after serving in the armed forces into the engineering construction industry. It is a collaboration between...

Damen Shipyards Group is leveraging its resources and shipbuilding expertise to become a major force in offshore construction. It sees exciting opportunities in offshore wind, in particular the emerging floating wind sector, but also recognises the potential in other segments of the offshore energy sector and aquaculture. Damen is now offering a complete construction...

In an industry first for deepwater deployment and recovery systems, Lankhorst Offshore announces the development of a new DNV Endorsement of Qualification Plan End-to-End rope splice for its LankoDeep rope. In the event the LankoDeep needs to be spliced offshore by certified personnel, an End-to-End splice can be made quickly, allowing offshore handling operations...

Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), a leader in offshore wind origination, development and construction in new and established markets around the world, has expanded its presence in Europe and opened a new office in Porto, Portugal. The new office will support COP’s ambitions to unlock offshore wind in the country, including early market assessment and...

Sif Holding has announced its USD 352 million Final Investment Decision to construct the world’s largest monopile foundation manufacturing plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Construction is expected to start in April 2023. Once the expanded manufacturing plant is fully ramped-up, which is expected in the first half of 2025, the  total combined capacity of...

Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, today announced that it has signed a partnership with Shoreline Offshore, a joint venture between the Quinn family, a longtime member of the fisher community in New Bedford and SEA.O.G Offshore a leading integrated logistics provider, to build out a berthing and fuelling...

Siemens Gamesa intends to build a major offshore nacelle manufacturing facility in New York state, subject to the company’s wind turbines being selected by the New York authorities in their third offshore wind solicitation. The planned facility will be located at the Port of Coeymans. It would create up to approximately 420 direct jobs,...

JDR, owned by the TFKable Group, has been awarded a contract by Petrogas E&P Netherlands to supply two umbilicals for the A15 and B10 offshore conventional gas fields in the Netherlands. The fields are located in quads A & B, in a shallow water depth of 35m and are expected to recover 17.25 Mmboe,...

Clarkson Port Services, a subsidiary of Clarksons, has completed the acquisition of DHSS, a provider of integrated logistics services to the offshore renewable industry, based in the Netherlands. Established in 1997, and with a presence across a number of ports in the Netherlands, DHSS acts as a gateway to offshore wind farms, with services...

Siemens Gamesa and Doosan Enerbility, formerly Doosan Heavy Industries, announce the signing of a binding framework agreement for a strategic partnership for the South Korean offshore wind market. Marc Becker, CEO of Siemens Gamesa’s offshore business and Hongook Park, CEO of Doosan Enerbility’s Power Service Business Group represented the parties at the partnership framework...

Jan De Nul Group has chosen BOW Terminal’s Eemshaven marshalling yard for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm projects. The 242MW Gode Wind 3 and 900MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 wind farms are owned and developed by Danish renewable energy giant Ørsted. Both wind farms are being built in the...

Jumbo Offshore has completed the transportation and wet storage of a riser caisson for Technip FMC. Jumbo carried out the job in October, deploying its heavy-lift vessel Fairplayer to handle the 120m long and 1.3m diameter caisson. The Fairplayer picked up the caisson from the Scottish port of Nigg, an operation that demanded a...

TSC Subsea, a global specialist in remotely deployed subsea NDT inspections for the energy industry, is entering 2023 in a strong position, with plans to target new markets in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia. The strategic growth plans follow on from one of the company’s most successful years to date which...

After being on board the first ever Chinese SOV with its walk-to-work equipment, SMST has reached another milestone in the Asian market. Recently, Marco Polo Marine, a Singapore-based marine logistics company, has awarded SMST the contract for the delivery of their mission equipment to the first ever Asian Commissioning Service Operations Vessel (CSOV). This...

Jan De Nul NextGen heavy lift vessel Les Alizés has left the CMHI Haimen Shipyard in China and is currently heading for Europe. The vessel has been delivered by the shipyard on 16 January and has departed on 18 January. Les Alizés is specifically designed for loading, transporting, lifting and installing offshore wind turbine...

Even though they are usually competitors, representatives of the six largest wind ports in Europe shook hands and signed a declaration Port Esbjerg in Denmark on 18 January. They have agreed to join forces to speed up the green transition in order to meet Europe’s ambitious offshore wind deployment targets. The ports lack capacity. The...

The steel cutting ceremony of the first of two next-generation Methanol MDO/HVO powered DP2 Construction Service Operating Vessels (CSOVs) for Acta Marine was arranged on 18 January 2023 at Tersan Shipyard. The SX216 design of the vessel has been developed exclusively and in close collaboration with Ulstein Design & Solutions. The steel cutting is the...

Fugro has received a sizeable contract for the Kelidang Cluster gas field development project from Petronas Carigali (PC) Brunei. The company will perform various site characterisation surveys to support the front-end engineering design for offshore production facilities and the pipelines to prospective buyers onshore. Geotechnical and geophysical data will be acquired using amongst others...

Houlder is collaborating with Blue Sea Power, an integrated energy solution provider as a gas-to-power company based in Athens, to develop three innovative floating LNG-to-power barges (FSRPs). The FSRP barges, which are set to be operational by 2025, will efficiently provide greener, lower emission baseload and peak power to the non-interconnected islands of Kos,...

Boskalis has acquired the contract to construct a large offshore windfarm off the US coastline. The Boskalis project scope includes the transportation and installation of the wind turbine foundations and power cables for which two crane vessels, several transport and cable-laying vessels will be deployed. The contract marks a special milestone for Boskalis as...