Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has hired IHC IQIP to work on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland.
IHC IQIP will provide 336 jacket pile grippers and the Hydrohammer S-2500, which has two specially-designed hammer sleeves and an internal lifting tool.
The jacket pile grippers will be welded to the 84 jacket foundations, which are being produced by Smulders, Bladt and BiFab.
Work on the grippers is underway and the last delivery is scheduled for early 2018, IHC IQIP said.
The Hydrohammer S-2500 will be used for deploying and recovery of the pre-piling template, for stabbing of the individual piles into the sleeves of the pre-piling template and for jacket installation.
The pre-piling template will be used to install piles in the correct location, at the appropriate inclination and stick-up height prior to installing the jacket.
It has been jointly developed by SHL and IHC IQIP.
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