Northern Offshore Services (NOS) and Japanese shipping outfit NYK have concluded a charter contract for a crew transfer vessel (CTV) to service offshore wind farms in European waters.
NYK-owned CTV, Energizer, will be chartered to NOS through a 10-year bareboat charter contract to transfer crews to offshore wind power stations, mainly in Europe, under the operation of NOS.
NYK has additionally agreed to dispatch its engineers to NOS to participate in operations and ship management in Europe in preparation for the development of the CTV business in Japan.
NOS and its parent Norwegian Offshore Group (NOG) operate over 60 CTVs in the offshore wind power market in Europe.
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Northern Offshore Services has taken NYK s crew transfer vessel Energizer on a ten-year charter. The vessel will be used to transfer crews to offshore wind farms, mainly in Europe.
Japan s NYK, which shared the charter news on Thursday, also said it has additionally agreed to dispatch its engineers to NOS to participate in operations and ship management in Europe, a leading region in the offshore wind industry, in preparation for the development of the CTV business in Japan.
Northern Offshore Services is part of Northern Offshore Group (NOG). The group’s head office is in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Northern Offshore Services (NOS) has begun a cooperation with ship owner Wilson Offshore to take over full technical and commercial management over the latter’s vessels to expand its offshore wind offering.
Crew transfer vessel provider NOS has been expanding its global activities with the establishment of partnerships in Japan and in the US in the past year and is now increasing its offering with larger offshore supply vessels.
NOS will take over Wilson Offshore’s vessels starting in the third quarter of 2021 adding to its fleet of about 40 vessels.
The vessels are 80-90 metres long and designed for accommodation, cargo transfers, walk-to-work, survey and ROV operations.
Sweden-based NOS has worked with MHO-Co to develop the vessels.
The CTVs will take around four hours to travel to site, from their base at the port of Grimsby, on the east coast of the UK.
The Hornsea 2 CTVs will also carry Z-Bridge’s newly developed motion compensated transfer system, called Bring-to-Work.
This transfer system will be installed as an additional feature for technicians to access the Hornsea 2 transition pieces directly from the CTV.
Orsted lead marine specialist Jan Stilling said: “The new CTVs have incorporated large battery capacity that makes it possible to stay offshore overnight in hybrid mode meaning they’re not burning fuel for up to eight hours while the vessels keep their positions without anchoring or mooring to a buoy.
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Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) has signed a contract with the offshore wind farm giant Ørsted to provide vessels for its British west coast operations.
N-O-S will provide crew transfer support to Ørsted’s UK West Coast Hub through the provision of seven CTVs over the next three years.
The first vessels will start at the beginning of 2021 and will be accompanied by more vessels gradually until the summer.
The N-O-S crew transfer vessels will operate on Walney, Walney Extension, West of Duddon Sands, Barrow, Burbo Bank, and Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farms – using Ørsted’s Barrow and Liverpool operations sites as base ports.