Scour Protection Work Begins at Aberdeen Bay OWF

Boskalis’ fallpipe vessel (FPV) Rockpiper is carrying out scour protection works at the Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm. According to a notice to mariners, Rockpiper will be working at the project site for three weeks and was scheduled to start on 28 October.

The eleven wind turbine positions at Vattenfall’s offshore wind farm – also known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) – will all have scour protection in place before the foundations are installed.

Boskalis is the overall Tier 1 supplier of the project’s offshore balance of plant (BoP) work for the construction and installation (EPCI) of the offshore infrastructure including the foundations and cabling.

Subsequently, Boskalis awarded Smulders Project a contract for manufacturing and assembling suction bucket jacket foundations for EOWDC. The foundations are expected to be installed in January 2018, followed by the installation of the 66kV inter-array cables and the export cable, supplied by JDR.

The foundations will support eleven MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbines, scheduled for installation in March 2018.

J. Murphy & Sons is the EPC contractor for the onshore substation and associated cabling work.

Offshore WIND Staff