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Boskalis Wraps Up Its A part of Moray West Work, Orion and Apollo Proceed Basis Set up


Boskalis has accomplished the work the corporate was contracted to carry out on the Moray West offshore wind farm. Whereas the Dutch offshore development firm has now wrapped up its a part of the job, work on Ocean Winds’ 882 MW mission offshore Scotland continues with the set up of foundations and inter-array cables underway.

Boskalis says that over the previous two years, the corporate deployed “at least six Boskalis vessels” for the Moray West offshore wind mission.

Bokalift 2; Picture supply: Boskalis through LinkedIn

“Our Gardline colleagues carried out intensive geotechnical and geophysical survey works earlier than the set up work. In later phases, our subsea rock set up vessel Rockpiper put in greater than 110,000 tons of rock as scour safety for the 62 XXL monopiles and our semi-submersible heavy transport vessel White Marlin transported two instances eight foundations from Asia to the port of Invergordon, Scotland,” the corporate mentioned through social media on 18 March.

After transporting the foundations to Scotland, Boskalis’s crane vessel Bokalift 2 was deployed to put in them on the Moray West website utilizing vibro-driving and hydraulic influence driving, with the primary monopiles in place in October 2023. A few months later, the corporate’s crane vessel Bokalift 1 put in the wind farm’s two offshore substation platforms.

The work adopted Boskalis signing a contract with Ocean Winds in February 2023.

At Moray West, the set up of foundations continues with DEME’s vessels Orion and Apollo finishing up the work, with Orion putting in the monopiles and Apollo the transition items (TPs). In accordance with the newest Discover of Operations from the Moray West mission crew, 16 monopiles and 50 TPs are left to be put in.

DEME gained the contract for the set up of monopile foundations and transition items at Moray West in 2022. The corporate’s scope of labor additionally consists of the bolting and grouting of the monopile/transition piece connections.

Inter-array cable set up can be underway at Moray West, with Seaway Aimery supported by the Olympic Orion doing the work. The vessels Olympic Orion and Seaway Aimery arrived on website on 12 and 14 March, respectively, and are anticipated to be deployed there for roughly three months.

Offshore export cables have been laid and trenched by 29 February, in accordance with the weekly discover from Moray West. As reported earlier this month, the cable provider Nexans accomplished the offshore export cable pull-ins for each offshore substation platforms on the 882 MW Moray West.

Jan De Nul’s fall pipe vessel (FPV) Simon Stevin arrived on the mission website on 26 February and began remedial safety works over the offshore export cable routes, which is predicted to be accomplished by 23 March.

The 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm, situated within the Moray Firth, roughly 22.5 kilometres from the Caithness shoreline, will comprise 60 Siemens Gamesa 14.7 MW wind generators. The offshore wind farm is scheduled to generate its first energy this 12 months and to be totally operational in 2025.


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