Hornsea One Export Cable Installation Completed
offshore wind export cable system ever to have been installed. The cables were manufactured by NKT at their facilities in Cologne and Karlskrona.Tideway BV installed the three landfall cable sections using sub-Contractor VBMS and their vessel Ndurance. The remainder of the cable sections were laid using Ocean Yield’s vessel Connector, and later Tideway’s own vessel Living Stone.The Connector has two large turntables with capacity to hold up to 6,000 and 3,000 metric ton cables, and has laid subsea cables since 2012 in a range of different water depths. For this job, the Connector lay-system
DSCV SBM Installer Sold to OS Installer
SBM Offshore has entered into an agreement to sell the DSCV SBM Installer, a Diving Support and Construction Vessel (DSCV), to OS Installer AS for US$150 million in cash. OS Installer AS is a newly established joint venture between Ocean Yield ASA (75%) and SBM Offshore (25%). Both parties have signed a memorandum of agreement, and SBM Offshore will charter the vessel under a long-term bareboat charter for a fixed period of 12 years. The Company will have certain options to acquire the vessel during the bareboat charter period, with the first option exercisable after five years. The
Aker Wayfarer to be Modified for Subsea Work
Kleven’s Myklebust Verft in Gursken, Norway, has signed a modification contract with Ocean Yield ASA, a ship owning company with investments within oil-service and industrial shipping, to convert the Aker Wayfarer into a deepwater subsea equipment support vessel (SESV). The vessel is presently under long term charter with AKOFS Offshore. The modifications made at Myklebust Verft will enable the deepwater subsea equipment support vessel to install and retrieve deepwater subsea equipment; subsea trees and modules, including subsea structures and manifolds. Designed by Vard Design and delivered
February 2025
