Tideway and Turbine Transfers Prepping CTV Quartet for Merkur Offshore Wind Farm

Wales-based Turbine Transfers has won a contract to provide Tideway B.V., part of DEME Group, with four crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the Merkur offshore wind farm project in the German North Sea.  

Set to commence later this year, Turbine Transfers will supply the four vessels to the project, including two XSS Semi-Swath vessels.

The company has now entered an initial planning phase with the Tideway team to ensure smooth preparation and delivery of the vessels.

Dylan Jones, General Manager of Turbine Transfers, said: “We are extremely happy to have won this competitive tender, and are very much looking forward to developing our relationship with TIDEWAY B.V to deliver an efficient project.”

Merkur offshore wind farm, owned by Merkur Offshore GmbH, will consist of 66 GE Haliade 150-6MW wind turbines installed some 45km north of the Borkum Islands.

Tideway is in charge of the installation of the inter-array cables on the wind farm. The company will deploy its new subsea cable installation/trenching vessel Living Stone to carry out the installation works.

Offshore cable construction works are expected to commence later this year, and the project is scheduled to be completed by 2018, Turbine Transfers said.

Merkur Offshore expects to commission the EUR 1.6 billion Merkur wind farm in 2019.