Baltic heavy lift support
Global independent offshore and onshore survey company UTEC NCS Survey, was recently awarded a contract for heavy lift support services for a major windfarm project in the Baltic Sea.
Partnering with LDD the contract is to deliver, in January 2016, a pile guide frame monitoring system, which will be used for the installation of approximately 70 foundation pile clusters for the subsequent installation of 4-legged jackets for the Wikinger windfarm development in the Baltic Sea.
The monitoring system has been designed to meet the high accuracy installation tolerances required for each pile cluster, with UTEC NCS using the specifically designed heavy lift / renewables internal software package ‘Groundbase’ to monitor the installations.
Groundbase is a customized, stand-alone, navigation software package developed to provide the necessary QC for any offshore structure installation. Capabilities include monitoring: jackets, top-sides, monopiles, transition pieces, templates, manifolds etc. when installed from vessels, barges or jack-ups.
By Jake Frith
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