RV OceanXplorer Rebuild Completed by Damen
;s research facilities are paired with Hollywood quality filming and media studios – developed in partnership with renowned filmmaker James Cameron. With this, the vessel’s findings can be live-streamed to audiences worldwide at the exact moment of discovery.Damen served as main contractor for the complex rebuild project, an extensive scope of work that brought together various disciplines from across Damen Shipyards Group – including offshore and survey newbuild, repair & conversion and yachting.The project required Damen to rebuild the vessel – a former offshore
NKT Confirms Dogger Bank OWF Gig
Danish cables supplier NKT has entered a Preferred Supplier Agreement (PSA) as main contractor for delivery and installation of high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable systems to the Dogger Bank Wind Farms Creyke Beck A and Creyke Beck B site.Now, with an agreement of a EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract with project owners Equinor and SSE Renewables, NKT confirms the order, which is the largest XLPE power cables order ever for the company, and has added the project to its the high-voltage order backlog.As previously announced, the order represents a contract
Floating Wind Turbine Installed at Kincardine
delivery of the operational scope included towing the floater to Dundee, prelaying the four-leg mooring system and installing the fully assembled wind turbine on site, was optimized by taking advantage of the local supply chain.Bourbon project management team worked in close collaboration with the main contractor, Cobra Wind, the designer of the semi-submersible floating foundations, Principle Power, as well as the mooring system provider, Vryhof
Hull Cleaning Robot Aids Oil Spill Response
robot was made ready for high pressure steam cleaning. Using the 1 MW installed power, a special oil skimmer as well as the necessary oil booms and PPM’s, the Fleet Cleaner team rose up to the challenge by round the clock cleaning of the affected vessels.The cleaning was done together with main contractor Hebo, which is the party to clean and coordinate the cleaning of the entire Rotterdam port area. Due to the use of the cleaning robot, which is normally used to remove fouling such as algae and barnacles from ship’s hulls to save fuel costs, a completely safe operation was created. Fleet
ESS Doubles Scope of Wikinger Offshore Work
Subsea technology specialist Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) said it has extended a trenching scope on the Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea with the award of a seabed clearance project. The Scottish company was awarded a contract last year by main contractor Prysmian Group to carry out pre-cut seabed trenching, prior to cable laying, on Iberdrola’s 70-turbine wind farm offshore Germany. Iberdrola’s global offshore wind projects are managed by ScottishPower Renewables, headquartered in Glasgow. The initial contract has now doubled in scope with the award of
Kværner: Edvard Grieg Topside Ready
Verdal, Norway. For the construction of the Edvard Grieg topside, Lundin selected an execution model which leveraged the Norwegian supplier industry's core competence of delivering complex platforms according to schedule, specifications and contracts, despite high complexity. Kvaerner has as the main contractor utilised Norwegian companies like Aker Solutions and Apply Leirvik as important subcontractors for engineering; and construction of the process module and living quarter respectively. Partners in Norway and Europe have in addition delivered pre-fabrication of steel sections and equipment packages
Quay Contract Awarded at Lerwick Port
for the offshore oil and gas industry have advanced with the award of a major contract to extend the quay at Dales Voe South to support subsea developments and decommissioning. Lerwick Port Authority has commissioned the Scottish business unit of civil engineering contractor BAM Nuttall as main contractor for an £11.95 million investment to lengthen the quay to 130 metres. Part of the Dutch construction group Royal BAM, BAM Nuttall specialises in complex marine construction, with a strong track record working around Scotland and on the Western and Northern Isles. Lerwick has been servicing
C-MAR DP Training in Brazil
is reflected on real-life situations offshore,” said Santos. With the continuing growth of the oil and gas industry in Brazil, there has also been a major growth in shipbuilding and ship, vessel and rig leasing. This has significantly increased the demand for Brazilian DP operators since main contractor Petrobras requires specific levels of local content on each ship or vessel it hires. “We are experiencing a continuous growth in the Brazilian offshore market, and in the near future we may need to expand our training facilities in order to accommodate the influx of prospective DPO&rsquo
Subsea Pipeline Pressure Intervention Averts Major Disruprtion
to prevent a major gas supply interruption for millions of residents and businesses in Jakarta. The operation made company history as the largest subsea pipeline pressure intervention that TDW has ever executed. The challenging hot tap and STOPPLE plugging operation was carried out for main contractor Timas Suplindo in cooperation with Offshore Construction Specialists on behalf of Pertamina EP, on sections of the pipeline network attached to the Lima Flow Station in the North West Java Sea. Work was carried out as part of the Lima Subsidence Remediation Project. The initiative
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