Project & Tenders

Siemens Gamesa 14 MW turbine to make European debut offshore UK
Siemens Gamesa has signed a preferred supplier agreement with innogy to deliver 100 of its new SG 14-222 DD turbines for the Sofia offshore wind project in the UK. The Sofia project will, therefore, be the first European project to install the 14 MW model that will be market-ready by 2024, on time f

Heerema’s Sleipnir vessel getting busy after landing new installation job
Heerema Marine Contractors has been awarded a contract by HSM Offshore for the transportation and installation of Dana Petroleum’s P11-Unity platform.

GALLERY: Giant Pioneering Spirit vessel removes another Brent platform for Shell
Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed its first decommissioning job of this summer, the single-lift removal of Shell’s Brent Alpha platform from the North Sea.

SSE Renewables looking for offshore survey squad
SSE Renewables has issued a contract notice seeking providers of geotechnical and geophysical services offshore the UK and Ireland. The offshore wind developer intends to sign a number of framework agreements that cover a range of geotechnical and geophysical services. The overall value of the frame

Ramboll bags contracts for German N-3, O-1 offshore wind farm areas
Ramboll will provide geological modelling and reporting for N-3 and O-1 offshore wind areas in the German sectors of the North and Baltic Seas, respectively. The total value of the contracts for the two areas is around EUR 514,000. The work will be done as part of the geological preliminary investi

Jan De Nul to set up Crete-Peloponnese link
Jan De Nul and Hellenic Cables have joined forces to install and protect a submarine power cable between the island of Crete and the Peloponnese region of the Greek mainland. Greek grid operator Admie is developing the project. Hellenic Cables, specifically through its subsidiary Fulgor, will produc

First SeaMade wind turbine installed
DEME Offshore has installed the first wind turbine at the SeaMade offshore wind farm in Belgium, using its jack-up installation vessel Apollo. The vessel will install 57 wind turbines more at the site located 35-50 kilometres off Oostende, where the 487 MW offshore wind farm is scheduled to be fully

Shell to supply carbon-neutral LNG cargoes to China’s CNOOC
LNG giant Shell said it recently signed a deal to supply carbon-neutral liquefied natural gas cargoes to CNOOC Gas & Power Group, a unit of China National Offshore Oil Corporation. Hague-based Shell said on Monday that these shipments will be the first carbon-neutral LNG cargoes to Chinese Mainland.

Port of Marseille Fos looking to become LNG bunkering hub
France’s Marseille Fos port is boosting the use of liquefied natural gas as fuel as it aims to position itself as an LNG bunkering hub for the Mediterranean. The port said in a statement it hosted another ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation last week following the first such operation in early May.

Calcasieu Pass LNG project gets first liquefaction equipment
Venture Global LNG’s Calcasieu Pass project is pushing forward with construction and it received last week the first liquefaction equipment at its site in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Venture Global said in a statement it started setting in place two brazed aluminum heat exchangers, also known as cold

Busy summer ahead for Boskalis and NKT at Triton Knoll offshore wind project
The consortium of Boskalis and NKT is set to work through the summer to install the offshore export cables at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK. As reported, an initial 25km stretch of export cable has already been installed from the landfall north of Anderby Creek in Lincolnshire, estab

GEOxyz secures IJmuiden Ver geophysical survey work
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) has awarded GEOxyz BVBA with the contract to carry out geophysical surveys at the IJmuiden Ver offshore wind zone. Under the contract, GEOxyz will conduct geophysical investigations required to obtain the soil information at a part of the Ijmuiden Ver zone

Trianel Windpark Borkum II all set for commissioning
Jan De Nul has completed the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) project in the German North Sea, with all of the wind farm’s turbines now installed and mechanically completed. Jan De Nul’s jack-up Taillevent started the turbine installation works in the summer of 2019 but had to leave mid-February 2

Jill journeys to Thor’s realm
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Jill has left the Port of Esbjerg to begin the preliminary geotechnical investigations for the Thor offshore wind project in the Danish North Sea. In mid-April, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier secured a contract by Denmark’s Geo to supply a vessel for the geotechnica