Hea-Kraken

‘Seajacks Leviathan’ and ‘Seajacks Kraken’ are prepared for their coming assignments, following a series of repair and renewal jobs by Shipdock Amsterdam. The shipyard, part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, had been commissioned for the two jack-ups by Seajacks UK Ltd. The Great Yarmouth (United Kingdom) based company has assigned the shipyard various and different major and minor adjustments on the two jack-up sister vessels in between North Sea offshore windfarm and oil & gas installation contracts. Shipdock Amsterdam’s major work on ‘Seajacks Kraken’ involved the replacement of the vessel’s two entire lifeboat davit sets. This included installing Niron Staal prefabricated foundations and the four new davits with their powerpack, cable, winch, electricity and hydraulic systems. This was finished off by surveyor-assessed test runs and loads test. Furthermore, the Kraken’s four legs were restored after an initial joint inspection round with the principal’s inspectors. Repairs involved S690 grade steel. In addition to crane tests and crane hook certification update surveys, the Seajacks jack-up vessel underwent miscellaneous minor steel work and had two new satellite dome platforms installed.

Vattenfall has now completed the installation of the final turbine at its pioneering wind farm off the coast of north-west England. The 30th turbine at Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm was installed Monday with the final rotor lift from A2Sea s vessel, the SeaJack. Installation was completed four months after the first turbine was erected. Vattenfall now looks forward to generating electricity from the wind farm for the first time later this summer. Ormonde s 30 REpower 5M wind turbines have a total installed capacity of 150MW. It is capable of generating enough electricity annually to meet the equivalent electricity needs of 100,000 UK households. More at http://www.power-eng.com/news/2011/08/1472081438/united-kingdom-world-s-largest-offshore-wind-turbine-installed-at-ormonde-offshore-wind-farm.html