Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Ballast Nedam Offshore installing 47th wind turbine foundation at the Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm, which marks the company’s 500th installed foundation. Ballast Nedam Offshore is contracted to design, supply and install 80 foundations at the German offshore wind fa
Maersk Oil UK has awarded Ramboll Oil & Gas the detailed design for the Culzean wellhead jacket. The project, which was won in tight international competition, marks Ramboll’s first major involvement in the Culzean field, and it also marks the largest substructure design by Ramboll for the North Sea
SPT offshore, acting as a subcontractor of Scaldis Marine Contractors, successfully installed the 3 suction piles forming the foundation of SPT’s tripod substructure and minimum facilities concept utilized for the Wintershall L6-B field development. The suction piles were simultaneously installed in
The engineering and services group Bilfinger will test steel foundations for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project in the Baltic Sea on behalf of Spanish energy supplier Iberdrola. Beginning in 2016, a total of 70 wind turbines are planned to be installed in water depths of up to 42 meters North E
A new vessel has been deployed at the Meerwind Süd/Ost offshore wind farm site. Namely, Seewind 1 is carrying out crew transfers from and to the offshore wind farm’s substation near Helgoland, North Sea, Germany. WindMW, a joint-venture between Blackstone Energy Partners and Windland Energieerzeugun
From 6 to 26 June 2014 the Sardinian Sea is the site of the REP14-MED experiment, lead by the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), part of the NATO Science and Technology Organization. Onboard the NATO Research Vessel Alliance, operated by CMRE, and onboard Research Vessel P
The Costa Concordia sponson installation marked its 12 sponsons installed, and the Government has set the June 26th as the deadline for the evaluation of the transportation and dismantling project. The Italian Council of Ministers, upon proposal from the Commissioner for the Concordia Emergency, has
The Board of Thalassa announces that WGP Group has completed mobilisation for the first 2014 permanent reservoir monitoring (“PRM”) survey over the Snorre field in the North Sea. The first good shot point has been achieved and production is underway. Statoil’s D-PMSSTM unit has been mobilised on the
On 9 June, The NPD completed the drilling of shallow boreholes in the western Norwegian Sea. Three holes were drilled on the Mørerand High, 293 kilometres northwest of Kristiansund. The deepest hole was terminated 170 metres below the seabed. The drilling was carried out by the company Fugro Seacore
In just over 2 months Ballast Nedam Offshore has installed 47 out of 80 monopiles on the Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm. The installation works started at the 1st of April and on the 10th of June monopile no. 47 was installed. This demonstrates the reliable approach based on one of the best proven ins
A network of more than 60 kilometres of underwater cable now spreads over the construction field of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. This is almost the length of the Eurotunnel that connects the UK with Continental Europe. The inter-array cabling was completed in altogether less than four months.
Oil & Gas UK welcomes the announcement today that Premier Oil plc’s Catcher Project is to go ahead, a project set to recover around 100 million barrels of oil from the North Sea. Oil & Gas UK operations director Oonagh Werngren said: “This is yet another clear sign that opportunity remains in the No
The fabrication of the Gode Wind foundations, which Bladt Industries are fabricating for Dong Energy, is well on the way. This week the TP mockup was upended at Bladt’s upending site. After this, the Bladt team installed the concrete platform on the TP mockup, which is the first of 97 TP’s for the G
Whitby Harbour Board has issued an early information about a tender for early planning of Endeavour Wharf reconstruction works in Whitby Harbour, which would be used to support Dogger Bank offshore wind farm development. This may include the construction of a berthing pontoon to be used as an embark
