Semco Maritime Bags 5-Year O&M Contract for Nordsee One OSS

Semco Maritime has entered into a 5-year contract for full service and maintenance of the Nordsee One offshore wind farm’s substation.

“Together with Bladt Industries, Semco Maritime has built one fourth of the offshore stations on the wind market today, which makes us one of the market’s largest suppliers. Based on that knowledge and experience it is natural for us to offer service and maintenance work for substations as well,” said Bjarne Christensen, Head of Service Operations at Semco Maritime’s Wind, Oil & Gas division.

The service contract is the first under Semco Maritime’s new SemService concept, which was introduced last week at the inauguration of the company’s new office and offshore centre in Norddeich, Germany.

The SemService concept includes a complete package solution with services within low and high voltage, telecom, SCADA surveillance systems and other competencies necessary for servicing and maintaining an offshore substation.

Semco Maritime’s newly opened office and offshore centre in Norddeich will serve as the base for a large part of the company’s offshore activities in the North Sea. With office, depot and meeting facilities, the new premises at the harbour front contribute to optimising logistics related to the increasing offshore activities in the wind industry, Semco Maritime said.

The offshore substation was installed at the Nordsee One wind farm site in July.

The foundation installation was completed in April and all inter-array cables are in place. The installation of 54 Senvion 6.2M-126 turbines is scheduled to commence in early 2017.

Located approximately 40 kilometres north of Juist Island, the wind farm covers an area of about 41 square kilometres and is expected to be operational in late 2017.

Nordsee One is owned by Northland Power Inc. (85%) and RWE International SE (15%).