Seajacks has confirmed a contract by Offshore WindForce to transport and install 67 transition pieces at Highland Group’s 400MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Seajacks Zaratan will tackle the work, as first reported in subscriber-only newsletter reNEWS, and join Seajacks newbuild Scylla on site as it installs 67 monopiles in what is a double win for the Great Yarmouth outfit.
Work for Scylla is slated to start early next year and Zaratan will join the job in June. Full commercial operation for the windfarm planned for the fourth quarter of 2017.
The wind farm will be based 95km north-west of Borkum in the German exclusive economic zone.
Seajacks chief executive Blair Ainslie said: “This set up of installing monopiles and TPs from separate installation jack ups was very successful on Blackstone’s 288MW Meerwind project and I am sure it will be the same here.”
Seajacks Scylla’s deck space of 4,600m² and Seajacks Zaratan’s deck leg capacity make them the perfect installation team for deeper water wind farms as the components steadily get heavier and larger in the industry, Ainslie added.
Image: Seajacks Zaratan (Seajacks)
Seajacks double duty at Veja Mate
Contract confirmed for transport and installation of 67 transition pieces
By EBS