Ocean Infinity has completed a “first of its kind” offshore wind farm survey on behalf of Orsted and PGE in the Polish portion of the Baltic Sea.
The survey was carried out to identify subsurface boulders in support of the Baltica 2 installation campaign for turbines and offshore substation locations.
The project team based in Ocean Infinity’s Operations Centre in Gothenburg, in Sweden, used a multi-beam echo sounder (MBES) and 3D multi-channel ultra-high resolution seismic (3D-UHRS) equipment deployed from an Ocean Infinity Armada lean crewed vessel over 540km.
“A conventional operation like this would require a much larger offshore team, significantly increasing operational risks and costs,” said Ocean Infinity project manager Sara Andersson.
“Moving operational control from the vessel to the office requires a completely new approach to operational management, coordination, and execution.
“The safe completion of this project with such a lean crew offshore yet again demonstrates our ability to deliver high-quality survey data using innovative technology.”
Key to the project’s success was the use of real-time remote data management, said the company.
Orsted and PGE operate on a 24-hour delivery schedule, necessitating data products to be produced within 24 hours of logging off.
This can pose a challenge even on conventional vessels, where data is logged and processed on the same server.
With Ocean Infinity’s remote data collection system, however, the survey data was accessible to the office-based processing team within the same timeframe as an offshore team would expect, enabling the company to meet Orsted’s expectations and deliver according to specification.