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GeoSea jack-up Innovation has installed half of the 174 EEW-made transition pieces at Hornsea 1

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GeoSea has installed half of the monopile foundations at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK.

The company’s jack-up vessel Innovation installed the first of 174 foundations at the site offshore the Yorkshire coast at the beginning of the year.

EEW SPC produced all the monopile foundations for the 1.2GW project, with EEW OSB manufacturing 86, Bladt Industries 68, and Steelwind Nordenham with the Teesside-based Wilton Engineering 20 transition pieces.

Hornsea Project One will comprise 174 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines connected to three offshore substations and a reactive compensation substation (RCS).

Ørsted recently signed an agreement to sell 50% of the 1.2GW offshore wind farm to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).

The companies plan to have the project fully operational in 2020, when it will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm.

Source:renews

Siemens Gamesa adds local muscle for Taiwan two

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Siemens Gamesa has awarded the first two contracts to Taiwanese companies to supply towers and materials for turbines to feature at a pair of offshore wind farms off the country’s coast.

A “newly-formed” partnership between CS Wind and local metal specialist Chin Fong will supply towers for German developer WPD’s 640MW Yunlin project.

The joint venture will use the latter’s existing facilities at Taichung Harbour to deliver the towers for the wind farm starting in 2021.

Some 80 8MW turbines are to feature at the project, to be installed in two phases.

“CS Wind is a strategic partner of Siemens Gamesa globally, delivering wind turbine towers to numerous projects around the globe,” said Siemens Gamesa Asia-Pacific offshore executive general manager Niels Steenberg.

“We strongly believe in the combination of their specialist knowledge with Chin Fong’s skills and strong local connection in Taiwan. Together, they have a great location to serve most of the Taiwanese offshore projects, doing so at an attractive price level with a fast start of production.”

CS Wind chairman Seong-Gon Gim said the company has “expanded aggressively to secure the pole position in the wind power tower industry”.

“We view this opportunity to capture a leading market share in Taiwan as key to becoming the global market leader together with our activities in the UK and Vietnam.”

Chin Fong chairman Eugene Chang meanwhile said the company is embarking on an expansion strategy from automotive work to renewable energy.

“We are proud to contribute to the Taiwan offshore industry as the leading wind power tower manufacturer, bringing jobs to Taichung Harbor,” he said.

“I am very pleased by the investment decision made by CS Wind and proactive approach of Simenes Gamesa to materialize this local tower manufacturing facility.”

Swancor has meanwhile been tapped to supply resin that will be used on blades of the 20 6MW machines that will feature at the second phase of the 120MW Formosa 1 project.

The deal comes on the back of “months of cooperation” between both companies along with a “trusted long-term partnership”, according to Siemens Gamesa.

The German-Spanish manufacturer’s offshore chief executive Andreas Nauen siad: “Signing our first firm purchase order for local turbine components in Taiwan is a watershed moment for Siemens Gamesa.”

“We’re proud to do so with our long-term partner and industry pioneer Swancor, moving the Taiwanese offshore wind supply chain forward together.”

He added: “We’re furthermore looking forward to expanding our collaboration with Swancor in making Taiwan an offshore wind center in Asia-Pacific.”

Swancor chairman Robert Tsai said: “We are pleased to be selected by the world leader in offshore wind Siemens Gamesa, a trusted partner of Swancor.”

“We would like to express our gratitude to Siemens Gamesa for assisting Swancor in becoming part of their global supply base, and eager to strengthening our cooperation, both in Taiwan and globally.”

Source:renews

Equinor expands North Sea Sverdrup monitoring system

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Equinor has contracted Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to undertake a second stage of development of a permanent reservoir monitoring (PRM) system on the Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian North Sea.

This will extend the system’s coverage across the entire field. It means that close to 600 km (373 mi) of seismic cables and more than 10,300 acoustic sensors will be installed across the field, using ASN’s all-optic seismic technology.

For the first time offshore Norway, the technology should be in place to optimize production in time for start-up in 4Q 2022. The seismic cables are due to be installed during 2019-2020.

At peak, Equinor aims to produce 660,000 b/d of oil, equivalent to 25% of Norway’s entire petroleum production, and the company has ambitions to recover more than 70% of the field’s resources.

Philippe Piron, president of ASN, pointed out that this was the company’s third PRM contract with Equinor in less than a year, “which demonstrates the relevance of PRM versus alternative 4D technologies.”

Source:offshore-mag

S. Korea: Shipbuilders are starting to sign some big orders

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Korean shipbuilders are starting to get orders for big ticket ships like liquefied natural gas tankers.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) inked a $210 million order from Norwegian shipper Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers (KNOT) to build two shuttle tankers for delivery after June 2020, the company said Monday. Shuttle tankers transport oil from offshore oil fields.

The Korean company will start building the tankers from next year at its headquarters in Ulsan.

With that deal, the three shipbuilders under the HHI Group – HHI, Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries – achieved 79 percent of the $13.2 billion sales target they set for this year.

In the first nine months of this year, the three affiliates signed orders to build 129 ships worth $10.4 billion, a 60 percent increase year on year. According to HHI, it is the highest sales record since 2013, when they inked orders for 200 ships worth $13.9 billion in the first nine months.

“The shipbuilding market is gradually improving,” a spokesperson from HHI said. “Our focus on high-value added ships like LNG tankers resulted in a good outcome.”

This year, some 31 gas carriers were ordered, including 16 LNG carriers and 12 liquefied petroleum gas carriers, according to the shipbuilder.

The spokesperson added that global shipping lines are asking a lot about LNG carriers, and the company expects to surpass its overall sales target this year.

“Hyundai has been focusing on LNG carriers and tankers, and through the latter half of the year, orders for LPG carriers are also expected to increase,” said Park Moo-hyun, a research fellow at Hana Financial Investment.

On Monday, Samsung Heavy Industries announced it won an order to build a 174,000-cubic-meter (227,583-cubic-yard) LNG carrier for an Asian shipping line for roughly 200.1 billion won ($180 million).

Including that order, the company has signed orders to build 40 ships worth $4.7 billion, achieving roughly 57 percent of its yearly sales target of $8.2 billion.

Hyundai Merchant Marine announced on Friday that it inked deals with all three shipbuilders to build 20 container vessels.

It ordered seven ships capable of carrying 23,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) each from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and five of the same ships from Samsung Heavy Industries. From HHI, the shipping line ordered eight 15,000 TEU ships.

DSME and Samsung Heavy are planning to deliver the ships by the second quarter of 2020 and HHI by the second quarter of 2021. The ships cost a total of 3.15 trillion won.

State-run Korea Development Bank, Korea Trade Insurance Corporation and other institutions will help financing Hyundai Merchant Marine under the government’s five-year plan to restore the country’s shipping industry by 2022.

Source:hellenicshippingnews

Port Authority welcomes new market initiatives for increased container bundling and shorter port calls in Rotterdam

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BCTN is bundling freight in Alblasserdam from its eight terminals in the Netherlands and Belgium in order to offer point-to-point services to the deepsea terminals on Maasvlakte. Kramer and Waalhaven Group are bundling cargo at their own terminals in Rotterdam and offer clients daily point-to-point services between the Waal and Eemhaven and the deepsea terminals on Maasvlakte. The deepsea terminals are also offering new services in the port, such as APM Terminals’ Cool Port barge service and the Intercity Barge from EGS and Danser.

The market initiatives build on the previous bundling initiatives supported by the Port Authority on the West-Brabant Corridor (Tilburg-Oosterhout-Moerdijk-Rotterdam) and the Duisburg Corridor (Duisburg-Gorinchem-Rotterdam). These initiatives in the port have resulted in call sizes that are two to four times bigger than previously, approximately 40% shorter port calls, more accurate approach times of inland vessels at deepsea terminals and 20% fewer trucks on the roads.

Ronald Paul, COO at the Port of Rotterdam Authority: "Container bundling works. Our huge compliments to our market partners who have taken the chances to further improve accessibility in the Port of Rotterdam. They have experienced that joint agreements pay off for their clients. The good results so far have energised us to continue further. All parties involved have committed to test and implement solutions in the coming year. This continued improvement in port efficiency is a tangible result of the agreements that were made last year between parties in the so-called Inland Container Shipping Chain sector consultation."

Examples of solutions that will be addressed in the coming period are the enrichment of information about container status for all participating chain parties and a feasibility study into container overflow hubs in the port. 17 parties have now joined the Nextlogic information platform that is to be launched in the summer of 2019.

Source:hellenicshippingnews

Four LNG Carriers Transit Panama Canal in One Day

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The transit of four liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers through the Panama Canal’s Neopanamax Locks in a single day marks a new milestone for the canal and reinforces its capacity to handle growing demand from the U.S., where several new LNG export terminals are scheduled to begin operating.

On Monday, the vessels Ribera del Duero Knutsen with a cargo capacity of 173,000 m3 and Maran Gas Pericles with cargo capacity of 174,000 m3 transited northbound, while Torben Spirit with a cargo capacity of 174,000 m3 and Oceanic Breeze with a cargo capacity of 155,300 m3 transited southbound, facilitating international trade between customers in South Korea, Japan, Chile and the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The milestone bests the Panama Canal’s previous record set on April 17, 2018, when three LNG vessels transited through the waterway on the same day.

Monday's record is the result of changes introduced to the Panama Canal’s Transit Reservation System to optimize the Expanded Canal’s capacity and offer two slots per day to LNG vessels. The modifications, which were announced in August 2018 and came into effect Monday, also allow lifting certain daylight restrictions for LNG vessels, as well as meetings between LNG vessels in opposite directions in Gatun Lake.

"The transit of these four LNG ships in just one day demonstrates the Panama Canal’s commitment to maximizing the efficiency, flexibility and reliability of its service to all customers," said Panama Canal Administrator Jorge L. Quijano.

Source:marinelink

Port of Hueneme gets $3 million for zero emission energy project

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $3 million to the Port of Hueneme to fund their ship to shore zero emission energy project. This project is a part of a joint application with the Port of Los Angeles for the statewide Zero- and Near Zero- Emission Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF).

The Port of Hueneme will provide a $200,000 match to the grant funding for a total project cost of $3.2 million.

The equipment funded through the ZANZEFF grant will be used by the Port’s private customers to transport their cargo from the ship to the shore, with zero-emissions. The Port will now have two electric yard trucks and infrastructure to make charging electric cargo handling equipment feasible on-dock.

Kristin Decas, CEO & Port Director, mentioned:"The projects funded by this grant will lay the foundation for the next phase of green infrastructure and equipment at the Port, which will support electric cranes, electric cargo handling equipment, and a hydrogen-fuel-cell truck dedicated to moving our customer’s fresh produce to the market place."

Source:safety4sea

OPEC Forecasts Falling HFO Prices and More Scrubber Orders

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In its latest annual report on the world's oil market outlook, OPEC has lowered its prediction for non-compliance with the IMO 2020 fuel sulfur content regulation. The organization now forecasts a non-compliance rate of 25 percent when the rule takes effect, reduced from an estimate of 40 percent issued the same time last year. 

Counter to the views of many maritime industry participants, OPEC expects that a sharp price spread between low-sulfur fuels and high sulfur fuel in the post-2020 bunker market will drive a strong uptake of scrubber technology. This will help to reduce non-compliance, OPEC predicts, and the rate could fall to just 10 percent by 2023, "in line with the increasing number of vessels with on-board scrubbing facilities." OPEC predicts that scrubber orders will take off only when this price spread occurs, not before, since there is currently no financial advantage in paying for a multi-million-dollar retrofit package.

The forecast is based on predictions about the economics of refining. Uncertainty about scrubber uptake and the future mix of the marine fuel market are deterring investments in low-sulfur-fuel refining capacity: if scrubbers succeed in gaining widespread acceptance, the refineries that buy expensive equipment for making low-sulfur fuel oil might not be able to recoup their costs, OPEC suggested. Since refiners are not working to alter their physical plants, the market need for compliant fuel will likely be met by larger refinery runs, which will produce more of every product type. The increased volumes of middle distillates will be used to dilute high-sulfur fuel to meet IMO standards. Ironically, the rise in refinery runs will also mean that production of high-sulfur fuel oil will increase – further lowering the price of HFO, and raising the advantage of scrubbers. 

"The price of HSFO could potentially collapse on a temporary basis around 2020," OPEC determined. "A widening spread between LSFO and HSFO should support the decision of ship owners to install scrubbers."

Separately, OPEC made an implicit prediction that the marine sector will not make progress towards its goal of a 50 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by mid-century. In its reference case, OPEC forecasts that marine bunker consumption will grow by 1.1 million barrels per day by 2040 (below), an increase of 25 percent. This demand growth implies an equivalent percentage increase – not decrease – in the sector's CO2 emissions.  

Source:maritime-executive

Acquisition consolidating the Luno II and Edvard Grieg ownerships

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Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has entered into an agreement with Equinor Energy AS (Equinor), under which Lundin Norway will acquire Equinor’s entire 15 percent working interest in the Lundin Norway operated licence PL359, containing the Luno II oil discovery.

The acquisition takes Lundin Norway’s working interest in PL359 to 65 percent and creates commercial and operational alignment between the Edvard Grieg and Luno II partnerships, realising significant benefits through optimisation of production and enhanced value from both fields. The transaction involves a cash consideration payable by Lundin Norway to Equinor, as well as Lundin Norway transferring its 20 percent working interest in PL825, containing the Rungne exploration prospect, to Equinor.

The effective date of the transaction is 1 January 2018 and completion is subject to customary government approvals.

Luno II is situated approximately 15 km south of the Lundin Norway operated Edvard Grieg platform on the Utsira High and has a gross resource range of between 40 and 100 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). The development concept for Luno II is a subsea tie back to the Edvard Grieg platform and the objective is to submit a PDO and sanction the project in early 2019.

Lundin Norway is the operator of PL359 with a current 50 percent working interest. The partners are OMV with 20 percent and Equinor and Wintershall with 15 percent each.

Alex Schneiter, CEO and President of Lundin Petroleum commented:
“I am very pleased to announce this strategic acquisition on the Utsira High of a further 15 percent working interest in the high quality Luno II discovery, where the development is set to be sanctioned in early 2019. This transaction not only fully aligns the Edvard Grieg and Luno II partnerships, but also demonstrates our commitment to supplementing our proven organic growth strategy with accretive asset acquisitions.”

Ocean Cleanup gets green light to proceed to Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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The Ocean Cleanup announced that it has the 'go' to continue its journey to the the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and start cleaning plastics, after two weeks of tests in the Pacific.

The trials showed that U-shape installation attained sufficient speed through water, something that means that it can move faster than the plastics, thus being able to capture it. What is more, it will be able to reorient if wind and wave direction change, keeping a steady state.

Another important conclusion is the fact that the system did not sustain any significant damage and is now able to proceed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Maersk Launcher will now tow the System 001 into the Pacific to begin the big cleanup operation.

System 001 consists of a 600-meter-long (2000 ft) U-shaped floating barrier with a three-meter (10 ft) skirt attached below. The system is designed to be propelled by wind and waves, allowing it to passively catch and concentrate plastic debris in front of it. Due to its shape, the debris will be funneled to the center of the system. Moving slightly faster than the plastic, the system will act like a giant Pac-Man, skimming the surface of the ocean.

The Ocean Cleanup anticipates that the first plastic will be collected and returned to land within 6 months after deployment. This will mark the first time that free floating plastic will have been successfully collected at sea. After returning the plastic to land, The Ocean Cleanup plans to recycle the material into products and use the proceeds to help fund the cleanup operations.

Source:safety4sea

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