Project & Tenders

All foundations in at world’s largest freshwater wind farm
Van Oord has installed all of the 89 foundations at the Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm in the IJsselmeer Lake, the Netherlands. Van Oord installed the first monopile at the site in the Frisian part of the IJsselmeer near Breezanddijk in September. Due to the shallows in the IJsselmeer and the

Vattenfall looking for DanTysk and Sandbank SOV
Vattenfall has issued a call for competition seeking a service operation vessel (SOV) for the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. The selected party will provide an SOV to allow accommodation and transfer of technicians via suitable gangway solutions to turbines for scheduled mainte

EU backs Port of Algeciras LNG bunkering vessel build
The Spanish port of Algeciras has been granted EU support for the construction of a dedicated liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering vessel.

N-Sea and SeaRenergy finish offshore job for TenneT
The consortium of N-Sea Renewable and Utilities Services (N-Sea RUS) and SeaRenergy has completed an offshore retrofit solution campaign for TenneT. The consortium completed a project to engineer, supply and install a retrofit subsea cable protection system (CPS) for an HVDC grid connection. SeaRene

Equinor and partners to improve North Sea field recovery with $345 million investment
Equinor has decided to invest NOK 3 billion ($342.8 million) in the Statfjord Øst field to improve recovery by 23 million barrels of oil equivalent.

SSEN taps NBO for new Skye and Harris subsea cable
Ningbo Orient Cable (NBO) said it has secured a contract from Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution to manufacture the cable for the Skye – Harris subsea cable replacement project. SSEN recently confirmed its decision to proceed with replacement of the 33kV cable which runs

ConocoPhillips makes ‘significant’ oil discovery off Norway
ConocoPhillips has made a new oil discovery in production license 891 located 14 miles north-northeast of the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea.

Sif receives order for Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm
Sif has secured a contract with Van Oord for the fabrication and supply of monopiles for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Sif will manufacture 70 TP-less monopile foundations and store them at its Maasvlakte2 facility in Rotterdam in 2022-2023. “We are grateful for

EOLOS floating LiDAR deployed at Dunkirk offshore wind farm site
An EOLOS floating LiDAR has been deployed at the Dunkirk offshore wind site off France, where the Éoliennes en Mer de Dunkerque (EMD) consortium will build a wind farm of up to 600 MW of capacity. The consortium between EDF Renewables, Enbridge and Innogy-RWE awarded EOLOS with a contract for turn-k

Nexans kicks off Seagreen onshore cable work
Nexans has begun onshore work for the installation of underground cable that will connect the Seagreen offshore wind project to the grid in Angus, Scotland. Once finished, the 19 km cable will reach from where the project makes landfall in Carnoustie to a new substation currently under construction

Shell taps Aker Solutions for work on Ormen Lange Phase 3
Norwegian engineering firm Aker Solutions has been awarded a letter of intent from oil major Shell for the Ormen Lange Phase 3 onshore project.

Standard Drilling finds new work for supply vessels
Standard Drilling has secured more work for its platform supply vessels. The vessel utilization for its PSVs totalled 74 per cent in October and November.

Wintershall Dea extends Odfjell deal by four years
Wintershall Dea has exercised two options in a platform drilling services contract with Odfjell Drilling on the Brage platform off Norway.

Gasum, UECC conduct first ship-to-ship LNG-LBG blend bunkering
The Nordic energy company Gasum has performed its first ship-to-ship LNG-LBG blend bunkering to a cargo vessel.