Sleipnir installs Hornsea Two jackets offshore the UK
Oct. 19, 2020
Heerema’s semisubmersible crane vessel Sleipnir has installed the RCS and OSS platform jackets at Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK North Sea.
Located 89 km (55 mi) off the Yorkshire coast, Hornsea Two will consist of 165 turbines with a combined total capacity of 1.4 GW.
(Courtesy Heerema Marine Contractors)
BigLift Shipping’s BigLift Barentsz transported the jackets from SMOE in Batan, Indonesia to the UK east coast.
On Sept. 29, the Sleipnir traveled to the offshore substation location and installed the 5,000-metric ton (5,512-ton) jacket after transferring the 1,500-metric ton (1,653-ton) reactive compensation station jacket and piles from the heavy transport vesselto its deck. After moving to the shallow-water RCS location, the Sleipnir installed the jacket.
(Courtesy Heerema Marine Contractors)
The Sleipnir will return to Hornsea Two next year.
This is the vessel’s second project in the wind market this season. Last month the Sleipnir installed the jacket for the Hollandse Kust Zuid transformer station in the Dutch North Sea.
