Offshore staff
LEIDSCHENDAM, the Netherlands — Fugro has completed geophysical, geotechnical and environmental site investigations for RWE Renewables’ Dogger Bank South offshore wind farm and export cable routes in the UK southern North Sea.
Dogger Bank South will be more than 110 km from the Yorkshire coast in a 1,000-sq-km area with more than 100 km of proposed export cable routes. The total survey scope is more than 20,000 km of survey lines.
Trevor Baker, RWE project lead, said, “The offshore surveys are a very important aspect of the project’s development, and the data collected will help inform the environmental impact assessment process and help in the engineering design of the wind farms.”
Fugro mobilized multiple vessels for the survey campaign, which included seabed cone penetration tests, sampling boreholes, multi-beam echosounder surveys and a large 2D ultrahigh-resolution seismic survey.
Environmental surveys comprised grab sampling, epibenthic trawling and drop-down videos. The acquired geo-data will support analysis of the site’s subsurface conditions, geohazard risk mitigation and identification of a safe route for the export cables.
Fugro will share the processed data on its cloud-hosted platform.
10.20.2022
