Oceaneering International Services has secured a contract to carry out seabed route and debris clearance for the 950MW Moray East offshore wind project off Scotland.
The company will provide vessels, personnel, route preparation tools and will also deploy remotely operated vehicles to complete the clearance works for the wind farm’s export cable routes.
The company said it expects to complete the project in the second quarter of this year.
Oceaneering’s Aberdeen-based team will carry out the work and will deploy the company’s proprietary route and boulder clearance system prior to cable installation.
The RP15 plough has been deployed on the export cable routes for the Race Bank, Westermost Rough, Hornsea 1 and East Anglia 1 offshore wind farms and the array cable routes for the Beatrice wind farm.
Over 3000km of routes have been cleared to date, said Oceaneering.
Moray East project director Marcel Sunier said: “Oceaneering has a proven track record of providing boulder clearance services.
“We look forward to working with Oceaneering further on this project.”
Oceaneering renewable and subsea projects director Allan Ralston added: “We are very proud to have been awarded this work for the Moray East development, thereby increasing our presence on this project and adding to the local content aspirations of the developer.”
Moray East is located 22km off the Caithness coast and is the second of three offshore wind farms in the area.
Three 86km export cables from offshore to shore will transfer electricity from the wind farm.
Moray East’s developer, Moray Offshore Windfarm East, is a joint venture between Diamond Green (33.4%), EDPR (33.3%), Engie (23.3%) and CTG (10%).
Moray East is expected to be operational by 2022 and will feature 100 MHI Vestas V164-9.5MW turbines.