FoundOcean expects to begin operations on the Dudgeon offshore wind farm during spring of this year.
The company, which teamed up with BASF in 2014 to provide offshore grouting by using MasterFlow 9500 material, has been appointed by Seaway Heavy Lifting to connect transition pieces (TPs) to the monopiles at the offshore wind farm.
“For a while connecting a Transition Piece and Monopile with grout became a difficult subject for the industry, but this has now become a subject of the past. Design changes and material improvements, along with tighter offshore QA controls, on the material’s placement, has once again restored confidence in this type of connection. Although FoundOcean and BASF have been at the forefront of restoring this confidence, through the introduction of technically superior products and services, they promise that their story will not stop there, as both parties continue their commitment to the research and development of their ideas and experience to improve construction productivity and safety,” FoundOcean said in a press release.
The GBP 1.5 billion Dudgeon offshore wind farm will comprise 67 SWT -6.0-154 Siemens turbines, located some 20 miles off the coast of the seaside town of Cromer in North Norfolk. The wind farm is expected to be operational by the end of 2017.