OEG Group’s Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) has been awarded two contracts from Orsted to deliver inspections across the asset owner’s offshore wind portfolio.
SMC will continue to deliver structural inspections Above Water (SIAW) until 2026 at more than 15 offshore wind farms.
The first contract awarded pertains to Orsted’s UK and Netherlands portfolio of sites, which includes 12 operational wind farms in the UK, with three in development, in addition to the Borssele 1 & 2 sites already operational in the Netherlands.
The second award relates to Orsted’s German operation, with 4 sites already built and a further 2 under construction.
The SIAW contracts will see SMC continue to deliver inspection and maintenance works of external, internal and confined space areas of the foundation, transition piece and substation, having held similar contracts with Orsted since 2018.
SMC’s Operations Director, Dean Coates, said: “SMC and Orsted have worked together and grown together since our first collaboration back in 2009.
“We are genuinely thrilled to have been awarded these key contracts that further cement our position as a world-leading supplier of Inspection and Maintenance services to the offshore wind sector, and that demonstrate our capability to operate internationally.”
Orsted has 8.9GW of installed offshore wind capacity, with the ambition to install a total 50GW of renewable energy across various technologies by 2030.