Project & Tenders
Odfjell takes over drilling and maintenance ops at ConocoPhillips’ Ekofisk
Offshore driller Odfjell Drilling has taken over platform drilling and maintenance operations at ConocoPhillips’ Ekofisk Area in the North Sea, offshore Norway.
Scotland advances four wave energy research projects
Wave Energy Scotland has selected four projects to share just under £1.4 million with aim to cut wave power costs. The companies selected under the funding are: Apollo, Blackfish Engineering Design, Nova Innovation and Quoceant. Projects will develop technology to enable the quick connection and dis
Artificial island for Windpark Fryslân to be built by September
Zuiderzeewind, a consortium of Van Oord and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, plans to finish building the artificial island near Kornwerderzand, the Netherlands, in September. The island, which will first serve as the construction stage for the Windpark Fryslân nearshore project and after that as a
Rever Offshore delivers Serica campaign
Subsea services player Rever Offshore has recently completed a contract awarded by Serica Energy. This is the second campaign Rever has undertaken for the North Sea operator within a framework agreement from November 2018. The workscope, which took place in the North Sea’s Rhum field, was completed
All inter-array cables in place at Borssele I & II offshore wind farm
All 94 inter-array cables at the Borssele I & II offshore wind farm in the Netherlands are now installed. The installation started in February this year, ahead of schedule, Ørsted and Van Oord said, adding that the cable burial campaign will be completed in August. Van Oord carried out cable install
Rotech Subsea wraps up UK port project
Rotech Subsea has completed a quayside stress testing scope for BAM International at the Liverpool2 Container Terminal in Merseyside, England. It executed the bespoke testing and monitoring project at Peel Port’s new deep-water container terminal at the Port of Liverpool. It gives the largest contai
Cyprus starts work on first LNG import terminal
Cyprus has started building its first LNG import facility at Vassilikos, the nation’s largest and most expensive energy project. The project includes an FSRU connected to a jetty, mooring facilities, a pipeline, and other onshore and offshore related infrastructure. It has a price tag of 289 million
Irish 1 GW offshore wind project looking for consenting consultant
Codling Wind Park Ltd has issued a tender for the provision of all consenting management and environmental impact assessment (EIA) consultancy services for the Irish 1 GW offshore wind farm. The awarded party will work on planning and licensing requirements for both offshore and onshore activities t
TenneT looking for crew transfer vessels
TenneT has launched a tender looking for crew transfer vessels (CTVs) and respective crews for its offshore platforms in the Dutch and German North Sea. The CTVs will be used for transporting industrial personnel and small cargo from nominated harbors to the platforms and vice versa. The tender is d
Hellenic Cables to deliver Seagreen OWF inter-array lines
Seaway 7 has selected Greece-based subsea cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables to deliver inter-array cables for the Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland. Under the contract with Seaway 7, the EPCI contractor for the project’s foundations and inter-array cables, Hellenic Cables will design, manufac
Carbon Trust issues four Offshore Wind Accelerator tenders
The Carbon Trust has launched four new tenders as part of its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme. The first two tenders are related to monopile foundations, with the first calling for entries from interested parties to undertake a study to investigate monopile driveability through vibratory p
Steelwind Nordenham sends off last monopiles for Yunlin offshore wind project
Steelwind Nordenham has dispatched the last batch of monopiles for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The last four monopiles were loaded onto the Zhi Xian Zhi Xing vessel on 8 July and sent off from the foundation manufacturer’s site in Nordenham, Germany. Steelwind Nordenham has been selecte
Petrofac wins $135 million worth job in Kazakhstan
Petrofac has secured an engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, and commissioning contract in Kazakhstan worth approximately $135 million.
New investors enter Acorn carbon capture and storage project
Pale Blue Dot, the lead developer of the Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project, has conducted a corporate restructuring following a strategic investment by multinational independent investment bank and financial services company Macquarie Group.