UK: VBMS completes drilling scope for Dudgeon export cabling

The drillings we done in preparation for the installation of two 42-kilometre long export cables next year. To avoid worsening weather conditions later in season, the work was brought forward by three months. This meant that VBMS could deliver the project ahead of schedule to Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited, a subsidiary of Norwegian companies Statoil, Statkraft and Masdar.

Quote from the client: “We are very pleased with the performance that VBMS delivered on this part of the project in terms of efficiency and HSE. The drilling operations and associated marine work were executed within the scheduled time. The VBMS team and their subcontractors Visser & Smit Hanab and diving contractor Aquatech were all qualified, with personnel using first class equipment and marine spread which were very well suited for the scale of the work.”

VBMS will continue with the export cable installation at Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in March 2016. The total scope of work for VBMS also includes the design, supply, installation, termination and testing of 67 inter-array cables, which measure approximately 100 kilometres.

Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm

The Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm is located 32 kilometres off the British coast, north of the town of Cromer in North Norfolk (UK) and 20 kilometres northeast of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. The 67 wind turbines have a total capacity of 400 MW.