Fendercare Subsea Services has completed the Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) project at the Sandbank offshore wind site.
The UXO project was conducted at the Sandbank offshore wind farm, which is the second largest power generation project undertaken by Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München in the German North Sea.
The operation itself identified 120 potential contacts of which 26 were highlighted as UXOs and disposed of in controlled environments.
Fendercare Subsea Services’ role as an operator was to relocate the contacts using state of the art surveying equipment, excavation of contacts using dredging tools on the Work class ROV, identification of contacts by qualified UXO experts and disposal by their experienced Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.
The Sandbank project area is located 90 kilometres off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, and a total of 72 Siemens 4-megawatt class wind turbines will be erected there. With an overall capacity of 288 megawatts, the wind farm will start generating low-emissions power in the German North Sea in 2017.
This Sandbank UXO project was carried out as part of a joint venture between Fendercare Subsea Services and GSS Hansa Offshore GmbH.