USVs Eye Offshore Wind Opportunities
become requirements for maintenance. You can measure the potential in (£) billions in terms of the need for data to support that market.”XOCEAN’s XO vessel operating in a wind farm. Photo from XOCEAN.XOCEAN was set up in 2019, performed its first offshore wind survey in 2020 at Greater Gabbard, and now has more than 170 staff. In 1H 2022, it’s done 11,500 survey hours on offshore wind farms across 36 projects (some in the same wind farms) and seven jurisdictions. Early July, it was fitting out its 23rd 4.5m-long XO vehicle.Most of the work is multibeam, followed by sub-bottom
USV Completes Greater Gabbard Survey
vessel remotely operated from shore performed survey work for a wind farm in the sea off Suffolk, UK, reportedly marking a first for the offshore wind sector.The XO-450 unmanned surface vessel (USV), owned and operated by XOCEAN, carried out seabed surveys on seven of the turbines at the 140-turbine Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm, located 23 kilometers off the UK coast.The USV is around 4.5 meters long and weighs about 750 kilograms, and can be monitored and controlled 24/7 via a satellite connection by a team at an onshore control center.Throughout the survey, the data collected was monitored from
EDS Scores 15-year O&M Contract
High voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Group, part of the UK marine services company James Fisher and Sons, announced Friday it has secured a 15-year operations and maintenance (O&M) contract for OFTO assets at the Greater Gabbard wind farm off the coast of England. The contract has been awarded by Equitix Investment Management which own the concession and who will rely on EDS to help maximize the availability of the high voltage network.EDS said its team of engineers and technicians will provide a full turnkey solution for two offshore platforms, the onshore substation and grid connection at
HFG Awards Galloper Contract to Mech-Tool Engineering
on the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm. The company will also supply internal and external doors and windows. Predicted to generate power to up to 336,000 households, the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm – located off the coast of Suffolk, U.K. – is an extension of the existing Greater Gabbard Wind Farm, currently being developed as its own separate entity. Heerema Hartlepool is responsible for fabricating the unmanned offshore Galloper substation platform – awarded by Petrofac – where subsea array cables will connect turbine generators to a single Offshore
CWind Wins Cable Pull-in Contract
farms, the company announced. Under the contract, CWind will support the pull-in of the cables at all 97 turbines as well as those connecting the array to the substation. Following cable pull-in experience at offshore wind farms such as West of Duddon Sands, Gwynt y Môr and Greater Gabbard in the U.K., this is CWind’s first contract to provide this service in German waters, the company noted.
3sun Secures Siemens UK Contract Renewal
completed this year, and DONG Energy’s West of Duddon Sands which will be complete in 2015.” 3sun Group currently work with Siemens in the U.K., Denmark and Germany, onshore and offshore, and has participated in some of the most notable projects in the industry such as Griffin Forest, Greater Gabbard and London Array, currently the world’s largest offshore wind farm. Lee Andrews, Head of Siemens U.K. Site Installation Offshore said, “We are delighted to renew our turbine installation contract with 3sun. Together with Siemens own installation technicians, they supply some of
Prysmian Contracted for Ireland Underwater Power Link
and interconnectors and an extended ability to offer turnkey products and services (including design, manufacture and installation) to better serve Northern Europe’s growing markets where Prysmian Group has already acquired and completed several projects such as Ormonde, Walney I and II, Greater Gabbard, Thanet, Gunfleet Sands, Robin Rigg, Gwynt y Môr and Teesside in the UK and BorWin2, Helwin1, Helwin2, SylWin1 e DolWin3 in Germany and Skagerrak IV in Denmark. The group is currently carrying out the submarine connection between Scotland and England Western HVDC Link. This project
Harwich Dock & OMM Get Dong Offshore UK Cable Services Contract
and maintenance works. HDC enlisted the expertise of OMM as cable industry specialists when the opportunity arose to provide a cable storage O&M hub for DONG Energy. HDC worked successfully with OMM in 2011, providing local facilities to OMM during the installation of array cables for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm. Following a tender process, DONG Energy made the award to the HDC-OMM partnership; both companies’ track records in the renewable sector played a significant factor in securing the contract. The contract represents a significant milestone for the former naval port
U.K.: Massive Offshore Wind Farm Opens
Greater Gabbard wind farm, which is reportedly the second largest offshore wind farm in the world, costing £1.3 billion and generating enough clean electricity to power over half a million homes, was officially opened off the coast of Suffolk by the Energy and Business Minister Michael Fallon. Greater Gabbard has 140 turbines and will double in size once the Galloper wind farm extension is completed in 2017. Offshore wind has the potential to provide enough clean power for 11 million homes in the U.K. by the end of this decade, creating 30,000 jobs and contributing £7 billion to the
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