Today Xanthus Energy is announcing a fully functional 100m high meteorological masts offshore in water from depths up to 60m for £2,000,000; and that’s installed and transmitting.
Sea met mast is based on tried and tested buoyant gravity base designs developed over forty years and used to great effect in the oil and gas industry. Using only standard tugs Xanthus can move and redeploy Sea Met as many times as needed with no legacy impact and at a fraction of the original purchase outlay each time, giving the flexibility as well as huge savings.
Sea Met is a re-usable self installing offshore meteorological mast and monitoring platform for water depths up to 60m that utilises a telescopic lattice mast structure fixed to a buoyant concrete and steel cellular gravity base by means of a rotating pivot.
Sea Met is mostly assembled on shore, and then using a standard ocean tug the whole structure easily deployed offshore in a single trip lasting a matter of a few hours thus also mitigating the uncertainties of weather.
Sea Met is also easily recovered and re deployed with minimal legacy impact, meaning that instead of using multiple fixed masts that soon become redundant, a single Sea Met could be re located many times at a fraction of the costs of a new build.
Sea Met utilises a free standing telescopic mast structure. The lowest section is a 70 metre tubular construction that acts as housing for the retracted mast which is sealed to make the mast buoyant during transport. No specialised vessels or heavy-lift facilities are required during installation hence reducing costs whilst increasing project flexibility.
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Press release, October 09, 2012; Image: xanthusenergy