UK-based offshore vessel agency North Star stated Friday its second hybrid-propulsion service operation vessel (SOVs) was set to be mobilized three months sooner than deliberate to help SSE Renewables with a brand new scope of labor on the Dogger Bank Wind Farm.
North Star’s first service operation vessel in its new offshore wind fleet, the Grampian Tyne, was blessed at an occasion in June.
The second SOV, the Grampian Derwent, a bigger ship with elevated lodging capability and helideck, has lately been delivered to North Star in Vietnam.
The new award with SSE Renewables will see North Star aiding the development and commissioning stage – a primary such scope for North Star – on the preliminary section of the enormous offshore wind farm improvement, positioned 130km off the east Yorkshire coast.
“This will allow the ships to then dovetail straight into their scheduled long-term charters to carry out operations and maintenance (O&M) related in field vessel activities for the development partners,” North Star stated.
The wind farm is a three way partnership between SSE Renewables (40%), Equinor (40%) and Vårgrønn (20%),
North Star says its SOVs present hotel-quality lodging to offshore wind turbine technicians and a centralized logistics hub in discipline. It can also be configured to deal with cargo and act as a warehouse.
The Grampian Derwent is a bigger iteration of the three different VARD designed newbuilds secured as a part of the most important SOV contract ever awarded within the UK.
This second ship has an elevated warehouse capability and skill to accommodate 50 consumer technicians in comparison with 40 personnel on the opposite fleet tonnage.
The vessel can also be geared up with a 17m helideck and a bigger 5Te capability 3D crane for offshore lifting.
North Star has additionally begun work on the development of its first two commissioning SOVs, after awarding the contract to VARD in Norway in May.
