UTEC NCS Survey, part of UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, was recently awarded a contract for heavy-lift support services for Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea.
Partnering with LDD, the contract covers the delivery of a pile guide frame monitoring system, which will be used for the installation of approximately 70 foundation pile clusters for the subsequent installation of 4-legged jackets at the Wikinger offshore wind farm site.
LDD, also an Acteon company, is contracted by Offshore Wind Force to deliver the entire design and engineering (including full DNV certification) of the overall subsea pre-piling template system including provision and fit up of all specialist equipment, hydraulics, controls, noise mitigation and motioning systems both on sea surface and subsea.
UTEC NCS will use the specifically designed heavy lift / renewables internal software package Groundbase to monitor the installations.
Groundbase is a customized, stand-alone, navigation software package developed to provide the necessary QC for any offshore structure installation (jackets, topsides, monopiles, transition pieces, templates, manifolds etc.) when installed from vessels, barges or jack-ups, the company explained.