OHT Wins Technip Job for Statoil Wind Farm
Monday 5 September 2016
Norwegian vessel owner Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) has won a contract from Technip related to Statoil’s world-first floating wind farm off the UK.
OHT will transport five substructures for Statoil’s 30-megawatt Hywind Scotland Pilot Park to be positioned about 30 kilometres off Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
The contractor will use its semisubmersible heavy-lift unit Eagle to transport the five modules in groups of either one or two from a yard in Spain to Norway, with the initial transport job to occur in the first half next year. The farm will consist of five 6MW Siemens turbines.
OHT’s workscope also includes procurement and installation of grillage/sea fastenings and supports as well as stability and ballasting procedures.
French contractor Technip landed the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the wind farm from Statoil last year.
Statoil said in late 2015 that it was investing Nkr2 billion ($241.25 million today) to develop the world’s first floating wind farm off Scotland. It was the first investment of the oil company’s New Energy Solutions (NES) division.
Production from the four square-kilometre wind park, which will generate sufficient power for about 20,000 households, is due to start late next year.