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Jack-up vessel Innovation installed the last of 20 suction bucket jacket foundations

GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed the last of the twenty suction bucket jacket foundations on Ørsted’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The wind farm now has all of its suction bucket foundations, as well as the 36 monopile foundations, installed. Innovation transported the first suction bucket jacket from Cuxhaven and installed it on the site some 54 kilometres off the coast of Lower Saxony in early June. The final jacket foundation was installed on Monday, 30 July. The installation of the wind farm’s 56 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines is already underway and is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2018, Ørsted said. The full commissioning of the wind farm is planned for early 2019. (Source: Offshore Wind)

First monopile loaded onto sea-going vessel at Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 location

On the morning of 2 January 2017, Sif loaded its first monopile on board a sea-going vessel. The ship in question is the Innovation, a heavy-lift jack-up vessel owned by Geosea, part of the Belgian DEME Group. It was also the first job handled at the new section of Maasvlakte 2’s deep-sea quay (port number 8317). Monopiles are used for the foundations of offshore wind turbines. They can weigh over 1,000 tonnes a piece. All in all, four monopiles were loaded for transport. Together with the so-called ‘transition pieces’: connecting sections that are used to join the turbine towers to the monopiles. The Innovation left the quay the same night, en route to a wind farm off the coast of the United Kingdom where it will be installing the monopiles. This operation will be followed by a number of similar transports over the next few weeks. Members of the public can witness the activities of the Sif Group up-close during one of the boat tours departing from FutureLand, the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s information centre at the Maasvlakte. http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/first-monopile-loaded-onto-sea-going-vessel-at-sifs-maasvlakte-2-location/

Heavy Lift Jack-Up Vessel ‘Innovation’ delivered to owners Hochtief

Overdick has announced that the Heavy Lift Jack-Up Vessel “Innovation” has successful completed sea and jacking trials and has been delivered to their clients of HGO Infra Sea Solutions (HOCHTIEF Solutions and GeoSea) by the shipyard Crist in Gdynia. The HLJV “Innovation” is the most capable Jack-Up Crane unit in the world and it has been designed by Overdick with the support of Wärtsilä Ship Design. This project confirmed Overdick leading edge in the design of modern, multi purpose Jack-Ups.