Marine services provider Island Offshore has been awarded contracts for its Island Diligence walk-to-work vessel for two offshore wind farms in Europe.
The first of these is a performing walk-to-work operations for Trianel’s 200MW Borkum West 2.2 offshore wind farm under construction in the German Bight.
The vessel has an accommodation capacity of 100, including a crew of 23, and a nearly full vessel is expected during the job for Trianel, said Island Offshore.
The duration of the contract is approximately four months, plus options. The vessel will be based in Eemshaven in The Netherlands.
The other contract is with Global Marine Group for work at the 605MW Kriegers Flak, which is being built off the Danish coast in the Baltic Sea.
The wind farm, owned by Vattenfall, will be Denmark’s largest after completion at the end of 2021.
Island Diligence will function as an accommodation vessel, in addition to providing gangway services in connection with cable laying activity at the wind park.
The duration of the contract is three months, plus option for an additional month, and the vessel will mobilise in Grimsby, on the UK north-east coast.
Island Offshore Management managing director Tommy Walaunet said: “We are very pleased to secure long-term work for Island Diligence. It has been a long winter for the crew as the vessel has been in warm lay-up pending new contracts.
“I want to commend them for quick and effective mobilisation of the vessel. The current customer carried out an HSEQ audit of the vessel with no non-conformities. This proves that the vessel is well kept, with a crew that focuses on the right things.”
Island Diligence, based on design type UT 717 CDX, was delivered to Island Offshore in 2018.