Seaway Heavy Lifting has contracted Dutch subsea technology company Seatools as the provider of a piling template instrumentation and control system for the Beatrice offshore wind project.
Seatools is in charge of the complete mechanical, electric, hydraulic, and software design of the piling template instrumentation and control system, which will be used for the offshore pile installation operations that are part of the construction of the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm.
Jan Frumau, Managing Director at Seatools, said: “The project will incorporate innovative designs based on proven technologies backed up by a solid redundancy and back-up strategy. Our approach will allow Seaway Heavy Lifting to perform effective, uninterrupted subsea pile driving operations delivering highly accurate results.”
Seaway Heavy Lifting is responsible for the design, engineering, fabrication and installation of jacket foundations and array cables for 84 wind turbines. Offshore installation activities will be executed in 2017 and 2018 using Seaway Heavy Lifting’s heavy-lift vessels, Stanislav Yudin and Oleg Strashnov.
The project is expected to be fully operational in 2019.
The Beatrice offshore wind farm will be built by Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited, a partnership formed between SSE, Red Rock Power Ltd and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.