Schiedam, The Netherlands, January 15th 2019: Vryhof, a trusted partner to many of the offshore industry’s leading companies and its three businesses – Deep Sea Mooring, Vryhof Anchors and Moorlink – today announced up to US$75 million in new contracts, starting 2019 on a high.
The contracts include landmark deals for Vryhof Anchors for the WindFloat Atlantic wind farm, offshore Portugal, the world’s first commercial floating wind farm, and the Havfarm 1 offshore fish farm project in Norway, one of the world’s largest floating structures.
In addition, Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has secured contracts with Saipem Indonesia, Odfjell Drilling and Noble Drilling for the supply of mooring related services during 2019 in offshore Indonesia, the North Sea, and Myanmar respectively, as well as a large-scale contract offshore Australia. Vryhof Anchors has been awarded an oil & gas contract in Malaysia with SOFEC and connector specialists Moorlink has won several niche contracts in the renewables and oil & gas drilling sectors.
Wolfgang Wandl, Group CEO at Vryhof, commented on the deals: “While the past few years have come with significant market challenges to the offshore sector, the relentless hard work, customer-focused approach of all our teams and businesses, and continued diversification into the renewables and aquaculture sectors have ensured that we start 2019 on a positive note.”
He continues: “The wide range of contracts in terms of project scope, geography and diversity of sectors is also confirmation that Vryhof remains the ‘go to’ company when it comes to global, customer-focused anchoring and mooring solutions.”