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  • 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: 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Equinor Delays Applying for Norfolk Offshore Wind Farm Extensions DCO

    5 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Equinor has decided to extend the preapplication period for its Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon offshore wind farm extensions, off the Norfolk coast, and now plans to apply for the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the projects by early summer 2022, instead of this year. The developer said extending the preapplication period would allow time to […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Case Study: T1200 Sheringham Shoal Offshore Cable Trenching (VIDEO)

    7 February 2013
    Technology

    In August 2012, Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc.’s robotics subsidiary, Canyon Offshore Limited (U.K.), was contracted to conduct trenching operations with the T1200 water-jet trenching system in the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm off the coast of the United Kingdom. The scope of work comprised of trenching of the inter-array cables with an approximate total […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Stowen Bags Offshore Wind Contract with Equinor

    12 July 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor, an oil & gas giant increasingly focusing on offshore wind, has awarded Sheringham Shoal maintenance contract to Stowen Clean Energy, a Great Yarmouth-based company founded in 2016 as a diversification for Stowen Group’s oil & gas business.

  • 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. […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Equinor Secures Development Consent for UK Offshore Wind Extension Projects

    18 April 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Secretary of State for the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero has granted development consent to Equinor’s Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Extension Projects off the North Norfolk coast. The projects are extensions to the operational Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farms, which currently power around 710,000 UK homes. The consent enables […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • MESL to Undertake Environmental Survey at Sheringham Shoal

    29 May 2014
    Environment

    Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd. (MESL) will be undertaking environmental survey activities on behalf of Scira Offshore Energy Limited at the 317MW  Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm site. Briggs Marine Contractors’ coastal survey vessel, Humber Guardian, has been selected for  acquiring of seabed imagery. The vessel will work on the job for up to two days […]

  • UK: Scira Offshore Energy Presents Vehicle to Holiday Park

    30 July 2012

    Staff at the award winning Kelling Heath Holiday Park now have use of an all-electric utility vehicle to help carry guests’ luggage and meet on-site transport needs following the recent presentation of the “green machine” to the park by wind farm operator Scira Offshore Energy.  Scira General Manager Einar Strømsvåg handed the keys of the […]

  • 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 […]