Red7Marine Offshore Ltd announced the award of a number of new contracts for 2013.
Cable protection work has recently been awarded on the Paimpol-Brehat Tidal Energy Converter project, Brittany, France. The scope of work includes the installation of more than 100 concrete mattresses to provide additional stabilisation of the export cable connecting tidal energy devices to the shore. Red7Marine will equip their DPII vessel DP Reel as the work platform for the project and utilise an ROV to install the high density concrete mattresses supplied from the vessels home port of Great Yarmouth, UK. The scope includes a number of supporting operations with site work due to commence summer 2013.
The company’s subsea cable installation expertise also continues to expand with the recent award of the export cable installation for the Biscay Marine Energy Platform project near Bilbao, Spain. The project includes the collection, installation and burial of four export cables from onshore out to the offshore wave energy test site. Work is due to commence this summer using the DP Reel which will once again be equipped with a cable installation spread including an ROV and Red7Marine’s SeaVex controlled flow trenching tool for cable burial.
Closer to home in the cable sector R7M Offshore has very successfully completed SeaVex cable de-burial and subsea inspection work on the Moyle Interconnector, a 62km 500MW HVDC subsea cable system connecting the electricity grids between Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In the oil and gas sector R7M Offshore has recently completed a gas wellhead ‘work over’ operation for a major SNS operator. The project has led to the award of follow-on work to mobilise a vessel and undertake a large decommissioning scope of works involving the cutting and removal of a number of 120t wellhead protection frames. The work includes SeaVex dredging, shaped charge cutting techniques and heavy lifting operations. R7M Offshore’s vessel DP Reel has also recently completed diving operations off Aberdeen undertaking IRM services of an FPSO vessel.
Heading up operations at R7M Offshore base in Great Yarmouth, Managing Director Peter Flint said: “We have already undertaken a number of significant projects for our renewables and oil and gas clients in 2013 and as it stands now we have secured sufficient work to fulfil our growth targets for the year, with some availability remaining.”
Red7Marine Offshore is based in Great Yarmouth, Aberdeen and across the UK.
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Press Release, May 21, 2013