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  • Galion Lidar Eyes Dudgeon Offshore Wind Site

    12 March 2014

    SgurrEnergy’s innovative remote sensing device, Galion Lidar, has been deployed by Dudgeon Offshore Wind Ltd, owned by leading international energy companies, Statoil and Statkraft, to undertake a wind measurement and analysis campaign to support the development of Dudgeon offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Norfolk in the UK. Two Galion G4000 Offshore wind […]

  • UK: Tidal Transit to Charter Eden Rose Workboat to Scira

    21 May 2012

    From 28 May 2012, Scira Offshore Energy, the company developing the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm [88 turbines between 9-17 miles off the coast of North Norfolk,] is to charter Eden Rose, one of Tidal Transit’s innovative wind farm personnel and equipment transfer boats, to service the site development. The Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm […]

  • Photo of the Day: Where’s the Wind Farm?

    10 March 2016

    Given the everlasting concern of visual impact that offshore wind farms might have, especially with regard to tourist destinations, Offshore WIND decided to feature this photo of the Sheringham Shoal wind farm, or rather the absence of it from the horizon. The wind farm comprises 88 Siemens 3.6MW turbines, located in the Greater Wash, between 17 and 23 […]

  • VSMC Lands Dudgeon Cable Deal

    3 July 2014
    Grid Connection

    VSMC has been awarded a EUR 110 million contract by Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited, owned by Norwegian companies Statoil and Statkraft, for the export and inter-array cabling for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm. VSMC will start in 2015 by performing two 1,100-metre horizontal directional drillings at the landfall, followed by the installation of two 42-km […]

  • UK: Offshore Wind Farm Base Contract to Create 80 Jobs

    22 March 2012
    Jobs & Recruitment

    Scira Offshore Energy has chosen Mansell for construction of the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm’s operational base, reports EDP 24. Regional managing director Dean Burgess said: “This project enables us to continue our commitment to the sustainable and renewables market at a local level with a multi-national partner. During Mansell’s contract at Sheringham Shoal wind […]

  • Bilfinger Secures Sheringham Shoal Coating Services Contract

    6 September 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Energy services provider Bilfinger Salamis UK has been awarded a GBP 1 million contract for the coating repair services on the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, operated by Statoil.

  • UK: Tidal Transit Wins Another Contract and Makes EDP’s Future 50 List

    28 November 2012

    For the second year running, North Norfolk’s Tidal Transit Limited, which provides state-of-the-art, purpose-designed crew transfer vessels for use by workers on the North Sea’s offshore wind farms, has made the Eastern Daily Press’s Future 50 List. Future 50 is a list of companies that, in the opinion of the judges are the ones to […]

  • Last Turbine Installed at Sheringham Shoal, UK

    11 July 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    The final blade of the eighty-eighth and last wind turbine at the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm was bolted into place marking one of the few remaining milestones in the construction of this 317MW project in the Greater Wash off the coast of North Norfolk.  The team on-board jack-up ‘Seajacks Leviathan’ completed the installation of […]

  • Two New Vessels to Join Sheringham Shoal Fleet (UK)

    23 September 2011

      Two new vessels will join the growing fleet working on the site of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm today as the installation and commissioning of the 88 turbines progresses. The 91m ‘SEA JACK ‘, a self-elevating platform vessel will combine forces with the already operational 76m ‘GMS Endeavour’ over the coming months and […]

  • First Serco Wind Farm Radar Fully Operational

    8 February 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Serco has received confirmation from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) that the first of the company’s five new or upgraded Air Defence radars which prevent wind farms interfering with the UK’s air defence capability is now fully operational. Trials and analyses have shown that the Remote Radar Head (RRH) Trimingham in Norfolk provides acceptable […]

  • UK: Scira Offshore Energy Moves to O&M Base at Wind Farm Place in Egmere

    6 February 2013

    The final piece of the jigsaw of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Windfarm has been put in place with Scira Offshore Energy’s [Scira] move to a purpose-built Operation and Maintenance [O&M] base at Wind Farm Place in Egmere near Walsingham on 4thFebruary 2013. Constructed by local firm, Mansell Construction of Swaffham, Wind Farm Place is located […]

  • Equinor Dishes Out Offshore Wind Contracts

    1 June 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Norwegian energy major Equinor has awarded Nokia and NetNordic, and separately Origo Solutions with contracts to provide services on the company’s offshore wind farms. Origo Solutions will be responsible for the complete delivery of the common Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system which will be used to operate wind farms from Equinor’s new UK […]

  • Statkraft Welcomes Major Offshore Wind Investment

    25 March 2014

    Reacting to the Siemens’ announcement regarding the decision to invest £160 million in wind turbine production and installation facilities in Yorkshire, while at the same time Associated British Ports (ABP) is investing a further £150 million in the Green Port Hull development, Bjorn Drangsholt, Statkraft UK Managing Director, said: “Statkraft welcomes the announcement to construct two […]

  • Planning Inspectorate Accepts Equinor’s UK Offshore Wind Farm Extensions Application

    4 October 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Planning Inspectorate has accepted for examination the application submitted by Equinor on behalf of its partners to develop the Sheringham Shoal and the Dudgeon offshore wind farm extensions situated off the North Norfolk coast. After the application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) was submitted by Equinor in September 2022, the Planning Inspectorate […]

  • UK: Duke of York Visits Scira

    26 July 2012
    Authorities

    The Duke of York visited Scira’s operations base in Wells-next-the-Sea and met with the team there to learn more about the Sheringham Shoal project and the rapidly developing offshore renewables industry in the UK.  On arrival The Duke of York was welcomed by Einar Strømsvåg, Scira General Manager and briefed about the wind farm and […]

  • Fugro Wins Sheringham Shoal OWF Contract (UK)

    20 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, R&D

    Scira Offshore Energy Limited has commissioned Fugro EMU to perform hydrographic and geophysical monitoring surveys at the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site and along the export cable and transit routes. The wind farm site, consisting of 88 offshore wind turbine generators and two offshore substations, is located approximately 20 kilometres off the UK’s Norfolk […]

  • MeteoGroup Signs Lightning Deal with Sheringham Shoal

    7 October 2014

    Scira Offshore Energy Limited has chosen MeteoGroup to provide comprehensive lightning forecasting, consultancy and monitoring services for its Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. Lightning poses a serious risk to the maintenance personnel who travel daily to and from an onshore base to work on the inherently exposed 80 metre high wind turbine towers. Therefore, accurate […]

  • UK: GMS Congratulates Scira on Sheringham Shoal Inauguration

    28 September 2012

    Gulf Marine Services (GMS) congratulates Scira on the official inauguration day of the Sheringham Shoal windfarm. The GMS Endeavour was employed from the beginning of the installation of turbine sets until the completion of the project and erected the majority of the 88 wind turbine generators masts and blades supplied by Siemens. GMS Senior Management […]

  • Last Construction Vessel Leaves Site, New Phase Begins for Sheringham Shoal (UK)

    18 December 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    The departure of the floating hotel Regina Baltica, which was the final construction vessel on the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, marks the end of an intense period of activity and the start a new operational phase, which has been in the planning for the past five years. Now the only vessels to be seen […]

  • Equinor Moving Forward with Wind Farm Sequels Offshore UK

    20 May 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Equinor is preparing to begin its public consultations with Norfolk communities on its proposed wind farm extension projects planned to be built adjacent to the company’s existing offshore wind farms off the North Norfolk coast. The existing Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farms provide renewable electricity for 750,000 UK homes, Equinor said. The Sheringham […]

  • UK: Scira Celebrates Move from Construction to Operations for Sheringham Shoal OWF

    23 April 2013

    A formal celebration on Friday 19th April 2013 marked Scira Offshore Energy’s move from the ‘Prepare for Operations’ stage of the Sheringham Shoal Wind Farm to its long term ‘Operation and Maintenance’ stage. Norman Lamb, the MP for North Norfolk and Minister of State at the Department of Health, formally opened Wind Farm Place, the […]

  • Romax Wraps Up Sheringham Shoal Work

    28 July 2014

    Romax Technology has provided Europe’s largest renewable energy company Statkraft with end of warranty inspection services and maintenance training for its Sheringham Shoal wind farm site. Operated by Statkraft and jointly owned with the Norwegian gas and oil company Statoil, Sheringham Shoal is one of the UK’s largest wind farms with 88 Siemens 3.6MW turbines. […]

  • New Vessels to Arrive to Sheringham Shoal (UK)

    30 May 2011

      The state of the art crane vessel the Oleg Strashnov is due to arrive back at the Sheringham Shoal site early on Sunday morning, after a trip to Vlissingen in Holland to pick up further monopiles, and is scheduled to resume foundation installations next week. Currently persons on board number 162, although this number […]

  • TRIG Notes Further Offshore Wind Investment Opportunities

    20 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), which entered the offshore wind market with the recently acquired 14.7% indirect equity interest in Sheringham Shoal, sees further investment opportunities in the sector, according to its annual results for 2017.

  • The Netherlands: Vroon Takes Delivery of MPI Cardenio

    2 April 2012

    Vroon has today, Monday 2 April 2012, taken delivery of MPI Cardenio. MPI Cardenio is a windfarm-service vessel, built at the South Boats Medina Shipyard on the Isle of Wight. She is the seventh addition to the MPI Workboats fleet and will commence operations immediately for Staoil in the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Windfarm. The wind […]

  • A2Sea Selects Great Yarmouth as Reloading Base for Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    1 March 2011
    Operations & Maintenance

    EastPort UK today announced the outer harbour had been selected by A2Sea as the reloading base for the installation of wind turbines on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. Danish headquartered A2Sea A/S, whose main shareholders are DONG Energy and Siemens, is the most experienced installation contractor in the offshore wind market. Since installing turbines […]