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  • UK OWF Construction Spikes in 2016, Further GBP 23.2Bn in Pipeline

    16 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    The total construction value of UK offshore wind projects reached GBP 4.1 billion in 2016, up from GBP 2.45 billion in 2015, with offshore wind farms alone accounting for 42% in the utilities and power sector and 21% of the entire infrastructure sector.

  • ESS Officially Announces Beatrice Contract

    3 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) today informed that it had been awarded a contract for the seabed clearance at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site in the Outer Moray Firth. Offshore WIND reported on the start of the works in early March, when Siem Offshore Contractors was set to begin the boulder removal and SCAR plough campaign at the project site.

  • IHC IQIP Equipping SHL for Beatrice Foundation Installation

    28 February 2017

    IHC IQIP will provide jacket pile grippers, the Hydrohammer S-2500 with two specially designed hammer sleeves, and an internal lifting tool to Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL), the EPCI contractor in charge of foundations for the Beatrice project.

  • Orkney Museum to Host Exhibition on Renewable Energy

    26 August 2014

    Thursday September 4 sees the opening of an exhibition of drawings at the Orkney Museum, Tankerness House, which chart the development of a wind farm in the Moray Firth. ‘Beatrice Works’ by Sue Jane Taylor, follows the creation of a major new development in the offshore renewables sector. The exhibition takes its name from the […]

  • Windhoist Signs Beatrice Deal with Siemens Gamesa, Marks Offshore Debut

    3 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    Siemens Gamesa has awarded Windhoist Limited with a contract to carry out wind turbine pre-assembly work for the Beatrice wind farm, which marks the Scottish company’s first offshore wind engagement.

  • SHL Piles 9 WTG and 2 OTM Locations at Beatrice

    15 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    On 11 May, Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) installed the 11th set of jacket foundation piles at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in Outer Moray Firth.

  • Top News of the Week, 14 – 20 August 2017

    20 August 2017

    Oleg Strashnov Installs First Beatrice Jacket Foundation Seaway Heavy Lifting’s vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed the first of 86 jacket foundations on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland. Boskalis Buys Gardline Group Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has acquired all shares of the UK-based Gardline Group. U.S. Oil & Gas […]

  • Scottish Offshore Wind Sites on Wildlife Watch

    17 July 2019
    Environment

    Marine Scotland Science (MSS) and the University of Aberdeen (UoA) carried out a multi-disciplinary survey within the Moray Firth wind farm sites in June 2019. MSS colleagues and UoA postgraduate students set sail on the Alba na Mara to characterise the distribution of the prey species (fish schools, zooplankton patches) across the Smith Bank in […]

  • Swire Blue Ocean to Install Beatrice’s Turbines

    8 June 2016
    Vessels

    Swire Blue Ocean has signed a contract with Siemens to provide a wind farm installation vessel for the installation of 84 Siemens 7MW wind turbines at the Beatrice offshore wind farm. The company said the latest contract adds to the pipeline of projects that it has secured for its fleet of wind farm installation vessels, namely Pacific Osprey […]

  • Clinton Marine Starts Beatrice Export Cable Routes UXO Survey

    1 August 2016
    Authorities, Environment, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Clinton Marine Survey AB, on behalf of Nexans Norway AS, has started a survey for unexploded ordnance (UXO) along the Beatrice offshore wind farm export cable routes in the Moray Firth, Scotland, according to Brown and May Marine, the fisheries liaison for the survey. The UXO survey commenced at the end of July and will continue over a […]

  • SSE: Secured Contract Provides Clarity, Enables Further Investment

    23 April 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    SSE welcomed the UK government’s announcement today that the Beatrice offshore wind farm project has been successful in securing an Investment Contract.  The security the contract provides means SSE and its partner Repsol can continue to invest in the the engineering and procurement work required to maintain progress towards a final investment decision in early […]

  • Beatrice Contract Pushes EEW Into Overdrive

    27 September 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    German pipe production specialist EEW Group has won a contract for Beatrice offshore wind farm jacket foundations. The company said it had received contracts for all three structural steelwork businesses and will thereby deliver the total volume of structural pipes needed to build the jacket foundations for the wind farm. EEW says that the company’s three German production centres […]

  • Subsea 7, Seaway Heavy Lifting Land Ten-Figure Offshore Wind Contract

    23 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Subsea 7 has teamed up with Seaway Heavy Lifting on an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for wind farm turbine foundations and array cables to be installed at the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm located in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland. The value of the contract is over USD 1.3 billion (over GBP 896 million), according to Seaway Heavy […]

  • Two SeaEnergy sites for development till 2020 (UK)

    19 May 2010
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Two SeaEnergy sites – Beatrice and Inch Cape – are among 10 identified as the short term option (2010 – 2020) for developing offshore wind. [mappress] Source: bfnnews, May 19, 2010;

  • UXO Survey Begins at Beatrice OWF Site

    8 January 2015
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    An unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey is taking place this month (January 2015) at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site. The survey is being carried out ahead of planned geotechnical surveys, to identify seabed ground conditions and the presence or absence of seabed unexploded ordnance for the nearshore extent of the offshore export cable route. Beatrice Offshore […]

  • Bauer Renewables to Do Relief Drilling for Beatrice Piles

    2 March 2017
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has awarded Bauer Renewables with a subcontract to design, build, test and operate specialized equipment – the BAUER Dive Drill C40 – to execute relief drilling services for the foundation piles at the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland. SHL will install 84 jackets for the […]

  • Beatrice Takes GMH to 750 Delivered Davit Cranes

    5 April 2017

    Granada Material Handling (GMH) recently delivered its 750th wind farm davit crane as part of its contract to supply 84 cranes to the Beatrice offshore wind farm project.

  • Seaway Heavy Lifting Installs All Beatrice Piles

    4 December 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has installed the 86th and final four-pile set at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site. SHL carried out the piling work with the heavy-lift vessel Stanislav Yudin, which will now re-mobilise for jacket foundation installation.

  • Beatrice Offshore Construction Kicks Off

    27 March 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) will begin installing piles for jacket foundations at the Beatrice offshore wind farm on 27 March. The work will be carried out by the heavy lift vessel Stanislav Yudin, recently equipped with NAMI’s purpose built 700-tonne Pile Installation Frame (PIF).

  • Photo of the Day: Cabling Works at Full Steam on Beatrice OWF

    6 December 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) posted a photo on its social media pages today, 6 December, showing Nexans Skagerrak, Siem Aimery and Siem Stingray vessels working at the offshore construction site in the Outer Moray Firth off Scotland.

  • Burntisland Orders Granada Pythons for Beatrice

    20 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Burntisland Fabrications Limited has contracted Granada Material Handling to design, manufacture, deliver and commission 26 davit crane units for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) project. Each of the Granada Python crane units has been specifically designed for Beatrice and the challenging marine environment in which it will operate, the Manchester-based company said. One Python […]

  • Nexans Ready to Deploy Boskalis Rockpiper at Beatrice

    18 December 2017
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Nexans, using Boskalis’ fallpipe vessel (FPV) Rockpiper, is set to commence the rock emplacement campaign for the installation of the first of two export cables (EC1) in the Beatrice offshore wind farm export corridors on 21 December.

  • Beatrice Foundation Piles Almost In Place

    6 November 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s crane vessel Stanislav Yudin has installed 84 out of the 86 sets of piles for jacket foundations on the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.

  • Beatrice Enters Final Quarter

    25 February 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    63 out of the 84 Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines have been installed on the 588MW Beatrice wind farm offshore Scotland, according to Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL). 59 out of the 63 units installed have been commissioned, BOWL said. The turbine installation is expected to be completed in Spring 2019. Swire Blue Ocean’s jack-up is loading […]

  • Outer Moray Firth Crawls with Offshore Wind Activity

    28 August 2015
    Environment

    The 664MW Beatrice offshore wind project site is crawling with activity. According to Kingfisher Fortnightly Bulletin, two companies are conducting surveys in the Outer Moray Firth. Brown and May Marine Ltd has been contracted by SSE to conduct marine survey operations that include larval sampling at 25 locations. Around the same time this last year, […]

  • Fugro to Make Beatrice OWF UXO Free Ahead of Construction

    28 September 2016
    Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has placed surrogate unexploded ordnance (UXO) items on the seabed at the Beatrice offshore wind farm area to enable towed magnetometer verification as part of the pre-construction UXO survey, according to Brown & May Marine. The surrogate units are inert and do not contain any explosive charge. After completing the UXO survey of the nearshore extent of the […]