Atlantic Shores retains Fugro for services offshore New Jersey

Offshore staff

NORFOLK, Virginia – Atlantic Shores has awarded Fugro a two-year contract renewal for real-time wind and metocean measurements offshore New Jersey.

The award is the latest in a set of three contract renewals between the two companies. Along with metocean services, Fugro’s geophysical and geotechnical contracts have also been renewed. All three are to support the safe design, permitting, and construction of future offshore wind farm facilities within the 740 sq km (286 sq mi) lease area.

For the metocean contract, Fugro is using two SEAWATCH wind lidar buoys. These systems are said to provide cost-effective and reliable collection of wind, wave, current and meteorological data to optimize wind turbine design, installation, and operations and maintenance.

The geophysical and geotechnical contracts, which started earlier this spring, are focused on continued characterization of the lease area, export cable routes, and inter-array cable modules. The fieldwork will run until mid-July and is being performed from five vessels, including two third-party vessels local to New Jersey. The vessels are equipped with advanced data acquisition and analysis capabilities for near-real-time data processing and geoconsulting.

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC is a 50:50 partnership between Shell New Energies US LLC and EDF Renewables North America.

05/25/2021