Seaway Heavy Lifting Installs Dudgeon OSS Topside

Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has completed its work on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm by installing the topside for the wind farm’s offshore substation on Sunday, 7 August.

SHL utilised its crane vessel Oleg Strashnov to install the topside.

Prior to that, Oleg Strashnov installed the wind farm’s 67 turbine foundations, while Stanislav Yudin installed the jacket for the offshore substation.

The topside, built by Sembmarine SLP, departed from the port of Lowestoft to the installation site some 32 kilometres off Cromer, Norfolk, on Friday, 5 August.

Dudgeon is being developed by the Norwegian oil & gas company Statoil (35%), Abu Dhabi‘s renewable energy company Masdar (35%), and Norway‘s state-owned electricity company Statkraft (30%).

On schedule to begin commercial operations by the second half of 2017, Dudgeon will deliver annual production of 1.7 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, the combined output of 67 Siemens 6MW wind turbines.