July 1st marked the official start of construction for NB 978 Island Explorer at Vard Shipyards Romania in Tulcea. This vessel is the sister vessel to Island Evolution under construction at Vard Shipyards Romania, Braila.
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May 6 2025, we held the keel-laying ceremony for our new build, Island Evolution.
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The steel cutting for the first newbuild, Island Evolution, commenced in Braila, Romania, March 4 2025.
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Island Offshore have signed a new contract with VARD for the delivery of an additional Offshore Energy Construction Vessel (OECV)! This will be the sister vessel to Island Evolution, with similar equipment and solutions. The vessel is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2027 and will be a new and important contribution to the renewal of Island Offshore’s fleet.
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In April 2024, it was 20 years since the shipping company Island Offshore was established. Now, the shipping company is again making a bold move by ordering a large Ocean Energy Construction Vessel from Vard with options for two more.
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On April 27, 2004, we took over the ISM responsibility for MV Island Frontier, marking the beginning of what has now become twenty years of development, innovation, ups and downs, unity, cooperation, joy, and pride for all the employees who have been part of Island Offshore during these years. We have much to be grateful for!
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Island Offshore has secured long-term employment for the Island Condor, with a 4.5-year contract commencing in autumn 2024.
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Island Victory has secured work for the coming autumn and will support the installation phase of a new gas pipeline in the Mediterranean. In addition, the vessel is secured work in the second half of 2024, when Island Victory will return to the Gulf of Mexico, and the customer Subsea7.
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Island Offshore has secured two new years of LWI work for Island Wellserver on the Norwegian continental shelf, with options for extension.
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Island Offshore has secured several contracts recently for over half a billion NOK spread over work over two years concerning the AHTS and supply segments and will employ several vessels in the coming years.
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Island Offshore has secured a contract for the supply vessel Island Commander with Equinor. The vessel is currently on spot fixture for the same company and is now allowed to hold on for another seven months, with options for 2 + 2 months after this.
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Island Offshore has been awarded several important vessel contracts during the first months of 2022. At present all 25 vessels are employed. Total value of awarded contracts is approx. NOK 500 million and as of March, 60% of available days in 2022 are sold out.
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Island Crusader has been running on biogas for two months now with a total of 700 running hours on LBG. So far, we experience good reductions in CO2 emissions. During this period, 128 tonnes of biogas (LBG) have been used, against 124 tonnes of LNG and 24 tonnes of MGO. Replacing LNG with LBG has so far reduced CO2 emissions by 372 tonnes.
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Island Crusader is the first offshore vessel on the Norwegian shelf running on biofuel, resulting in immediate and significant reductions in CO2 emissions.
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Island Offshore have signed a contract with Kongsberg Digital for delivering the Vessel Insight infrastructure solution to Island Offshore’s entire fleet of 26 offshore vessels.
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Island Offshore has been awarded a contract for service operation vessel (SOV) services by Equinor for the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm project in Norway.
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Island Offshore finally took delivery of the platform supply vessel Island Discoverer yesterday, after postponement due to difficult market conditions. Yard number 813 was completed by VARD Langsten this spring, and is flagged in NOR, ready for the Norwegian shelf.
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Island Offshore have secured an important contract for the walk-to-work vessel Island Diligence with DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind farms (operated by Vattenfall).
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The deep-water installation vessel Island Victory has set yet another record, this time during pre-laying of anchors at the Solveig field in the North Sea. 440 tonnes of continuous traction on an anchor counts as a world record and has never been done by one vessel alone before.
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The CSOV vessel Island Diligence just completed an impressive winter campaign with busy days on Vattenfall’s Kriegers Flak windfarm in the Baltic Sea, supporting Global Offshore’s cable installation works at the 72-turbine site. Operations were ongoing day and night, involving gangway operations and crane work around the clock. Since the contract commenced in August 2020, we have had 8822 crossings on the Uptime-gangway and 1800 connections to the windmill TP.
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