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international Construction Complete on Final Wind Turbine For Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm The construction of 88 Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) 3.6-megawatt turbines at the 317-megawatt Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of North Norfolk, England, was completed in July. The Seajacks Leviathan has worked in tandem with a sec- ond jack-up vessel, GMS Endeavour, for the past five months to complete the erection of the turbines. With 88 turbines in place and 46 turbines now connected and able to deliver electricity to the national grid, the wind farm is on track to be fully operational in September. The wind farm has been generating electricity since August 2011. The remaining turbines are in various stages of mechanical and electrical completion, commissioning or testing before they can start generation. Work will continue on the cable burial before full hand over to operator Scira Offshore Energy Ltd. (Norfolk, England). Sta- toil (Stavanger, Norway) and Statkraft (Oslo, Norway) own the wind farm via the joint venture company Scira, and Statoil has been the construction project manager. Work on the termination of all the infield cables is now complete, and they are ready to transmit power once each turbine becomes operational. The placement of scour protection around the foundation bases is in the final stages. Thales UK, ASV to Develop USV for MCM Thales UK (Bristol, England) has signed a contract with Au- tonomous Surface Vehicles Ltd. (Portchester, England), or ASV, to develop a reconfigurable USV for offboard mine counter- measures (MCM) operations, Thales announced in July. The low-signature USV will be deployable from military platforms, craft of opportunity and from shore, and will be air transportable. It will have the payload flexibility for UUVs and towed sonar, disposal and minesweeping systems. The USV will be 11.5 meters long and 3.6 meters in beam, and will have a maximum speed of about 25 knots. The vessel is now under construction and will be undergoing acceptance trials later this year. A series of payload trials will be con- ducted starting early 2013. DeepOcean Awarded Precut Trenching Contract For Skagerrak Submarine Interconnector DeepOcean UK Ltd. (Darlington, England) announced in June a precut trenching contract award with Statnett SF (Oslo, Norway) and Energinet.dk (Fredericia, Denmark) on the Sk- agerrak 4 High-Voltage DC Submarine Interconnector Proj- ect. DeepOcean will provide the engineering and project man- agement for the precut trenching in Denmark, which was ex- pected to start in July. The scope of work will include mobilization out of DeepOcean's offshore base in Middles- brough, England, pretrench survey and precut trenching of 23 kilometers of the Skagerrak 4 route. DeepOcean will also provide its precut trenching Ad- vanced Pipeline Plough, to be operated off the high bollard www.sea-technology.com AUGUST 2012 / st 57

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