Boskalis wraps up its a part of Moray West job, inter-array cable work underway

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 venture 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 “a minimum of six Boskalis vessels” for the Moray West offshore wind venture.

“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 company said via social media on March 18.

After transporting the foundations to Scotland, Boskalis’s crane vessel Bokalift 2 was deployed to put in them on the Moray West web site utilizing vibro-driving and hydraulic affect driving, with the first monopiles in place in October 2023. A few months later, the corporate’s crane vessel Bokalift 1 installed 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 line with the most recent Discover of Weekly Operations from the Moray West venture staff, 16 monopiles and 50 TPs are left to be put in.

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

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

Offshore export cables have been laid and trenched by February 29, 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 venture web site on February 26 and began remedial safety works over the offshore export cable routes, which is anticipated to be accomplished by March 23.

The 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm, positioned within the Moray Firth, roughly 22.5 kilometers 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 yr and to be absolutely operational in 2025.