J/U Wind Server Serves Turbines in Morecambe Bay

ZITON’s self-propelled jack up vessel J/U Wind Server has returned to the Holyhead port from Morecambe Bay, where the vessel has been working in an Operation and Maintenance (O&M) role, helping to keep the 500+ wind turbines operating 24/7.

ZITON, formerly known as DBB Jack-up Services, has been appointed by DONG Energy, Siemens and Vattenfall to carry out O&M operations.

The company, whose vessel now made its fourth visit to the port in a month, cooperated with Holyhead Shipping & Logistics, which supported mobilisation, de-mobilisation, bunkering, crew changes and other work. “It’s been a pleasure to be at the port of Holyhead and we are more than satisfied with the utilization of local help provided when needed,” said Mads Albér, Master Mariner & Chief Operating Officer at ZITON.

In March, Siemens took over the J/U Wind Server, thus commencing a three-year charter agreement under which the vessel will service a number of large-scale offshore wind power projects across Northern Europe.

Five moths later, DONG Energy and ZITON entered a framework agreement under which ZITON will provide services related to main component exchanges on out-of-warranty offshore wind turbines for the next three years.

In September, DONG Energy and Siemens deployed a maintenance team using ZITON’s jack-up vessel J/U Wind Pioneer to exchange gearboxes and main bearings on two of the turbines at the 173MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm off the Essex coast.

Offshore WIND Staff

Correction note: The article originally stated that the J/U Wind Server had returned to Holyhead port after completing O&M work on more than 500 wind turbines in Morecambe Bay. This has been corrected to state that the vessel was helping to keep the 500+ wind turbines installed in Morecambe Bay operating 24/7, without specifying the number of turbines on which the J/U Wind Server was deployed.

The article has also been updated with information that this was the vessel’s fourth visit to the Holyhead port in a month.