Saltwater Engineering has designed a new purpose-built Service Operations Vessel (SOV) for the offshore wind market, after being contracted by Offshore Marine Management (OMM) and Rederij Groen (RG), which teamed up to bring a new O&M vessel to the market.
The SOV has been designed based on two main principles; real time experiences during the offshore installation, maintenance and repair phases of offshore energy projects and the realisation that distances increase from base ports to wind farms so there is a requirement to stay offshore longer. The vessel can deliver both topside preventative maintenance services and subsea cable repair response plans, the companies explained.
The new SOV is scheduled to be delivered in late 2017.