VBMS has completed two 1,170-metre long horizontal directional drillings (HDDs) at the landfall for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm.
The drillings were done in preparation for the installation of two 42-kilometre long export cables next year. To avoid worsening weather conditions later in the season, the work was carried out three months earlier.
Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited, the company behind the project, comprising Statoil, Statkraft and Masdar, stated: “We are very pleased with the performance that VBMS delivered on this part of the project in terms of efficiency and HSE. The drilling operations and associated marine work were executed within the scheduled time. The VBMS team and their subcontractors Visser & Smit Hanab and diving contractor Aquatech were all qualified, with personnel using first class equipment and marine spread which were very well suited for the scale of the work.”
VBMS will continue with the export cable installation at the offshore wind farm in March 2016. The total scope of work for VBMS also includes the design, supply, installation, termination and testing of 67 inter-array cables, which measure approximately 100 kilometres.
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