July 23rd, 20190Dutch offshore engineering firm Heerema Marine Contractors has secured a new contract from Jan de Nul to support the construction of the Changhua wind farm project in Taiwan. Heerema will be responsible for the installation of 21 jacket foundations for the project, and will deploy its heavy lift vessel for the works. The offshore...
July 16th, 20190Seabed Geosolutions, a Fugro and CGG joint venture, has been awarded a 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) monitor survey in West Africa from a major oil company. The data for the project is expected to be acquired over a two-month period during the third quarter this year, and will cover 151 sq km in water depths up to 600 metres. The...
June 27th, 20191Oceanteam has secured a contract for the deployment of its construction support vessel to support Fugro for a Deepwater ROV subsea installation project off the coast of Sabah, Malaysia. Mobilisation of the vessel will start early July in Singapore and works are expected to be completed in the third quarter. “We are pleased to...
June 13th, 20190Dutch heavy lift shipping specialist Jumbo Maritime has secured a contract for the transportation and installation of wind turbine generator substructures at the Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan. The contract was awarded by Yunneng Windpower and the scope comprises the transportation of 40 monopiles, 120 monopile sections and 40...
June 11th, 20190SBM Offshore has signed a letter of intent with Petrobras for a 22.5 year lease and operate contract for FPSO Mero 2, to be deployed at the Mero field in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The Libra block, where the Mero field is located, is under a production sharing agreement to a consortium comprised of Petrobras (40%), Shell (20%),...
June 4th, 20190Dutch offshore service provider Ampelmann has secured a contract with DeepOcean to support the hook-up and commissioning of the Valhall Flank West project, operated by Aker BP. The campaign is due to start in June and Ampelmann will supply an E-type system to support the Normand Jarstein vessel's walk to work operations. It is the...
June 3rd, 20190Boskalis Subsea Services, part of Boskalis’ offshore energy division, has secured multiple contracts worth a total of over EUR100m ($126m) in the North Sea over the last six months. The contracts include the Total Tyra redevelopment project, an inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) campaign for Repsol Sinopec, a decommissioning...
May 31st, 20190Nicholas Wirth's Doris Maritime Services has placed its fleet of four ultramaxes up for sale. Brokers are circulating the only four vessels in the company's fleet, 2015-built ultramaxes Naess Absolute, Naess Courageous, Naess Endurence and Naess Intrepid. The vessels, built at China’s Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry, are worth between...
May 30th, 20190Describing bills of lading as an “anachronism” a top Scandinavian shipping line and a Belgian shipper have joined the blockchain push to retire the ancient paper process. G2 Ocean, the breakbulk joint venture between Gearbulk and Grieg Star, has just concluded a successful test with Dutch client Manuchar, using CargoX’s Smart B/LTM...
May 29th, 20190Danish offshore wind specialist Ziton has taken Vroon’s 2011-built self-elevating wind turbine installation vessel on a bareboat charter. The vessel has gone on charter with immediate effect, though to the end of March 2021 and Ziton also has an option to acquire the vessel. Ziton said by adding the vessel to its fleet, it will...
