Growth in the European offshore wind segment; delivery of two newly built wind ships and an improvement of the ERRV market in the North Sea gave ESVAGT a satisfactory 2021. Optimism for further growth in 2022.
ESVAGT DANA has been rebuilt. Four meters wider and with a new permanent SMST walkway, the SOV ’Esvagt Dana’ is ready to service TotalEnergies in the Danish part of the North Sea for many years.
EMBASSY VISIT: Chargé d’affaires Stuart A. Dwyer from the US Embassy in Denmark met on Tuesday with ESVAGT's CEO Peter Lytzen and business manager in Esbjerg Karsten Rieder to talk about the potential for local wind companies in the booming US wind market.
Until June, ‘Esvagt Castor’ will follow the Well-Safe Guardian rig in a plug-and-abandon campaign in the UK sector. The number of wellheads on the seabed shows great potential.
With ESVAGT and Well-Safe agreeing a contract for ‘Esvagt Castor’ to support the rig Well-Safe Guardian, ESVAGT has its first foothold in a market with a significant potential.
'Esvagt Castor'
With ‘Esvagt Leah’ and ‘Esvagt Heidi’, the ESVAGT fleet has been equipped with two high-quality vessels.
It is atypical for ESVAGT to be expanding the fleet without having been responsible for the design and construction process with the yard.
However, with 'Esvagt Heidi' and 'Esvagt Leah', the two latest additions to the fleet and both just recently chartered, that is the case.
The vesse
ESVAGT extends contract with Repsol for standby services until the spring of 2023.
New contracts in the North Sea require ESVAGT to mass-recruit. Boosts in Denmark and the Faroe Islands have resulted in great contacts.
Focusing on innovative solutions, two of the key stakeholders in the Danish North Sea are joining forces to create the logistics of the future in the North Sea.
Eight years of service on the Barents Sea have demonstrated that the ’Esvagt Aurora’ is ideally suited to working in Arctic regions. The vessel and its crew have saved lives and even extinguished a fire on land.
ESVAGT has been servicing the energy sector since 1981 and has set the standard for safety and support at sea. Today, the shipping company consists of 42 vessels and over 1,100 employees, and ESVAGT has just entered the growing American offshore wind energy market to play its part in the green transition.
U.S.-based Crowley and Danish shipping company ESVAGT announced plans today to directly bolster purpose-built, Jones Act vessel availability in support of the emerging offshore wind energy market through a joint venture.
Even though Covid-19 restrictions have turned everyone’s lives upside down and test flexibility to the limits, ESVAGT employees are positive and satisfied. ‘The team spirit they are showing is impressive,’ says Chief Human Resources Officer.
On Sunday, February 21st, the ‘Esvagt Preserver’ has completed 30 years of operation without a single severe work-related incident. Approach and company culture are crucial.
The young seaman Asbjørn Morell was healthy, in good health and fit, when he most unexpectedly suffered a cardiac arrest in the North Sea. His colleagues on board the vessel ‘Esvagt Cantana’ fought for hours to save him.
The ‘Esvagt Aurora’ tested its emergency response and equipment in acute situation after a fire broke out at the Melkøya Gas Processing Station outside Hammerfest. Both crew and equipment delivered a most professional and emphatic performance.
ESVAGT was nominated for the 2020 Safety Award for irreproachable diving operation in the Barents Sea together with Norwegian SubseaPartner.
The Norwegian radio telegraphist Laila Ausland Cock had spent 20 minutes in a frothing sea and had given up any hope of rescue when the ’Esvagt Protector’s crew found her.
While the ’Esvagt Omega’ was saving the rig West Gamma’s offshore workers from the waves, Asbjørn Rislaa was lying in the water and admiring the professional rescue team at work.
The ‘Esvagt Bravo’ has been a turning point in the development of ESVAGT’s competences and safety culture. Earlier this year, the vessel signed off after 39 years of loyal service.
ESVAGT will meet the consequences of the decreasing energy prices and Covid-19 through streamlining and pay reduction, and at the same time ensure that the shipping company can continue to support the vital infrastructural energy production.
