UK company Specialist Marine Consultants has carried out a full inspection of Seajacks jack-up Zaratan ahead of deployment of the vessel in Taiwan on the 120MW Formosa 1 phase two offshore wind farm in the coming weeks.
The work was the third time that SMC has inspected Zaratan, which has also previously hosted SMC construction personnel at the Veja Mate project in the German North Sea.
Zaratan (pictured) has an 800-tonne crane and 2000 square metres of deck space, SMC said.
The company added that it is also supporting several other projects in Taiwan and in total has carried out over 2000 vessel inspections worldwide.
SMC managing director Ian Coates said: “The Zaratan is a vessel with which we are extremely familiar, and it is a pleasure to continue to work with our long-standing client, Seajacks.
“We will be keeping a close eye on the vessel’s activities in Taiwan as we anticipate further successes for her in the region in the coming years”.
Seajacks operations manager John Vingoe said: “Seajacks have an excellent working relationship with SMC, built up over years of working together throughout inspections of our fleet of five self-propelled jack-up vessels.
“SMC provide a reliable service which Seajacks are happy to continue utilising.”