Sweden-headquartered Northern Offshore Services (NOS) is providing vessels for supporting Orsted’s wind farms off the west coast of the UK.
NOS will provide crew transfer vessel (CTV) support to Orsted’s UK West Coast Hub, totalling 1.8GW of capacity, through provision of seven CTVs over the next three years.
The first vessels will start in beginning of 2021 and will be accompanied by more vessels gradually until the summer.
The vessels will operate on Walney, Walney Extension, West of Duddon Sands, Barrow, Burbo Bank and Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farms, using Orsted’s Barrow and Liverpool operations sites as base ports.
Orsted UK West operations head Howard Shields said: “Our west coast offshore wind farms have a total capacity of more than 1.8GW and are an important source of clean, renewable electricity.
“We have an excellent operations team that ensures our offshore wind farms continue to operate efficiently and effectively.
A reliable CTV service is a vital tool in maintaining our excellent operational performance track record.”
NOS chief commercial officer Fredrik Hallqvist said: “We are pleased to have been selected for this scope, and this award is based on many years of good cooperation between NOS and Orsted.
“This long-term agreement will further strengthen our position and commitment in the UK market.”