Seajacks’ vessel Scylla has arrived in the Port of Nigg in Invergordon to begin loading jackets for EDPR’s 950MW Moray East offshore wind farm off Scotland.
Jacket installation contractor DEME Offshore has chartered the vessel to replace its floating crane vessel Orion on the job, according to project sources.
Orion was due to install the foundations and offshore substations at the project but is out of action due to a crane collapse during load testing earlier this year.
Scylla’s role in the project was first reported by subscriber-only reNEWS last week.
Around half of the 45 turbine foundations made by UAE fabricator Lamprell for Moray East have arrived at Nigg for marshalling.
The first two of 55 Smulders-built bases for the project recently left the fabricator’s yard in Wallsend, north-east England, and sailed to the installation port at Nigg.