Wind-Discovery

In the Belgian port of Ostend, Jan De Nul Group named its newest offshore installation vessel Taillevent. Miss Pauline Stassijns, the granddaughter of Director Dirk De Nul, baptised the vessel and wished her success and a safe journey. The De Nul family, employees and their guests attended the christening.

an De Nul Group and Vroon Group, which owns MPI Offshore, have signed agreements to transfer part of the ofshore business of MPI to the Belgian owner. Jan De Nul said the deal includes the transfer from MPI of the jack-up vessel MPI DISCOVERY together with its crew, as well as a number of MPI’s employees.

MPI Offshore's own wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) MPI Discovery has recommenced work at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm off the south coast of England, the Company said in its press release. Working closely together with Swire Blue Ocean’s Pacific Orca, MPI Discovery will continue with the installation of 116 monopile foundations during the second half of 2016. As a result of the black-bream-spawning season, installation activities were halted in late April as planned and only restarted at the beginning of July. This break in activities gave us the opportunity to complete a successful, periodic dry docking of MPI Discovery. Furthermore, during the same period the second installation vessel, Pacific Orca, was mobilised to join the foundation-installation campaign.