Red7 renewables work in France and Spain

The scope of work includes the installation of more than 100 concrete mattresses to provide additional stabilisation of the export cable connecting tidal energy devices to the shore.

Red7Marine will equip their DP2 vessel DP Reel as the work platform for the project and utilise an ROV to install the high density concrete mattresses supplied from the vessel’s home port of Great Yarmouth, UK. The scope includes a number of supporting operations with site work due to commence this summer.

The company’s subsea cable installation expertise also continues to expand with the recent award of the export cable installation for the Biscay Marine Energy Platform project near Bilbao in Spain. The project includes the collection, installation and burial of four export cables from onshore out to the offshore wave energy test site.

Work is due to commence this summer using the DP Reel, which will once again be equipped with a cable installation spread including an ROV and Red7Marine’s SeaVex controlled flow trenching tool for cable burial.

Closer to home in the cable sector, R7M Offshore has successfully completed SeaVex cable de-burial and subsea inspection work on the Moyle Interconnector, a 62km 500MW HVDC subsea cable system connecting the electricity grids between Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Heading up operations at the R7M Offshore base in Great Yarmouth, managing director Peter Flint said: “We have already undertaken a number of significant projects for our renewables and oil and gas clients in 2013 and as it stands now we have secured sufficient work to fulfil our growth targets for the year, with some availability remaining.”