Greater Gabbard project (2009)

The Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm development comprises an offshore wind farm off the Suffolk coast (adjacent to two sand banks known as Inner Gabbard and Galloper) and associated electrical infrastructure, both onshore and offshore, to produce a maximum installed capacity of 500 MW.

This project is conducted with our Seaeye Surveyor Plus and Seaeye Tiger system onboard of the HLV Stanislav Yudin.

Subsequently the ROV will move to the target area using the ROV sonar.

At the Gabbard platform location the ROV will conduct a debris sweep of the seabed using a collision avoidance sonar, video and depth gauge in an area of the future jacket footprint (5m x 5m grid, depending on visibility).

Removal of minor debris from seabed such as oil drums, lost wires, fishing nets or minor steel were removed with the ROV.

The ROV will assist during jacket installation and set down.

Further ROV assistance was required during jacket installations to survey the jacket mud mat-seabed penetration for jacket level.

Upon completion of the jacket installation, the ROV was conducting a debris survey.   

Projectinformation

Client:Seaway Heavy Lifting
Date:June 2009
Projectscope:Greater Gabbard (2009)
Type project:ROV
Contact:Bas Dorpmans
Phone:+31 (0)223 63 77 84
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