Royal Dirkzwager and Vissim Start Borselle Watch

Royal Dirkzwager has begun remote monitoring of the 730 MW Borselle III and IV construction site from their operations centre in Maassluis, the Netherlands.

Vissim technologies support a centralised multi-tenant monitoring system that enables service companies to provide marine coordination services for multiple clients. In addition to dedicated marine coordination services projects, applications can include early-stage projects, night-time handover and remote asset monitoring services.

“We developed our Remote Offshore Asset Management (ROAM) model with Vissim AS, having delivering Vissim marine coordination and communication systems on previous offshore wind projects,” Paul Wieland, Director at Royal Dirkswager, said.

”Vissim systems scale to support multiple surveillance areas from a centralised control room environment. The combination of Vissim AS for state of the art VTMS technology with Royal Dirkzwager’s cost efficient 24/7 remote asset monitoring services provides integrated energy companies with unrivalled monitoring and collision prevention capabilities.”

The Borssele III & IV offshore wind project is being developed by the Blauwwind II consortium comprising Partners Group, Shell, Eneco, Van Oord, and Diamond Generating Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation.

Located some 22km offshore Zeeland, the wind farm will feature 77 MHI Vestas 9.5MW wind turbines installed on monopile foundations without transition pieces which will be delivered by Sif.

The wind farm will go into construction in 2020.

Nicholas Dent, who heads up Vissim’s Offshore Wind practice, said: “The recent market focus on the digitalization of offshore operations is exciting. Building on our 15 year history of digitalizing marine operations, Vissim has developed a fantastic suite of digital tools to optimize operational workflows – but we do notice that this market focus has sometimes clouded the importance of rock-solid tracking and communication technologies to underpin operational safety and efficiency.”