Offshore staff
MARSEILLE, France — Bourbon Subsea Services has completed installation of the foundations for the QAIR-led Eolmed pilot floating wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea offshore southern France.
The Floating Electrical Hub (FEH) infrastructure offshore Port-la-Nouvelle will be connected to three wind turbines at the Eolmed site off Gruissan (which Bourbon is due to install by 2025) and the shore connection cable, enabling delivery of electricity to the local grid.
The three wind turbines will generate more than 110 million KwH/year.
For the initial program, completed last fall, Bourbon mobilized a 30-strong team of engineering, project management and offshore technicians for the design, manufacture, towing and installation of the FEH and its subsea mooring system.
Towing and installation, over a two-month period, involved the use of the Bourbon Liberty 222 anchorhandling tug supply vessel equipped with ROVs.
Eolmed, one of the first floating wind farm projects in the Mediterranean, is intended to validate the technical reliability of the installation and to support the creation of an offshore wind energy industry in the Occitanie and PACA regions of southern France.
01.09.2024
