Orient Adventurer, previously the development and flex lay vessel Polar Onyx which has been transformed right into a cable-laying vessel (CLV), has arrived in Taiwan’s port of Taichung, from the place it’ll quickly sail out to the Yunlin offshore wind farm web site.
The vessel will perform cable-laying work on the Yunlin mission below the partnership between Orient Adventurer‘s proprietor Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) and Seaway7, which signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on collaboration within the Taiwanese offshore wind market in February.
Orient Adventurer can be a product of the collaboration as its conversion concerned utilizing DFO’s vessel and Seaway7’s cable lay unfold to create a devoted cable-laying asset for Taiwan, in keeping with Seaway7.
Dong Fang Offshore, a subsidiary of Hung Hua Building, bought Polar Onyx from GC Rieber Delivery in 2021 and mentioned that the vessel can be transformed right into a cable-laying vessel, with the conversion anticipated to be accomplished by the top of 2023.
Seaway7 is accountable for the availability and set up of the export and inter-array grid cable programs on the 640 MW Yunlin wind farm below a contract signed in 2018.
On the Yunlin offshore wind farm, whose subsea cables are being delivered by the South Korean producer LS Cable & System, the ultimate export cable was laid in October 2023, in keeping with info on Seaway7’s web site.
In November final yr, Skyborn Renewables, one of many mission house owners, mentioned that the 2023 set up marketing campaign on the Yunlin offshore wind farm was nearing completion, with 45 monopile foundations, 26 internal array grids, 12 export cables, and 34 wind generators put in – and preparations for 2024 set up marketing campaign underway.
Earlier this month, the corporate mentioned the 2024 set up marketing campaign was underway with the mission group and Yunlin contractors are working at full tempo to have all of the monopile foundations, inter-array cables and wind generators in place this yr.
The 640 MW offshore wind farm will comprise 80 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind generators and is predicted to be accomplished this yr.
The Yunlin mission is owned by the Yunneng Wind Energy consortium which includes Skyborn Renewables (25 per cent), TotalEnergies (23 per cent), EGCO Group (25 per cent), and a Sojitz Corp-led consortium (27 per cent) which additionally contains Chugoku Electrical Energy, Chudenko Company, Shikoku Electrical Energy, and JXTG Nippon Oil & Power Company.
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