SPONSORS OF REGIONAL FOCUS NEW VESSEL GOES TO WORK AS RED7MARINE CHASES MORE GROWTH
Red7Marine’s newly-acquired offshore support vessel DP Reel went straight to work after sailing into Great Yarmouth port to start a new era for the rapidly growing company.
One of her first jobs was for Centrica on the Lincs windfarm, off Skegness, with anchor trials and diving surveys in preparation for export cable installation.
FUNDING
Clydesdale Bank provided R7M with £4.5 million of funding for the vessel which will work both for the renewable energy sector and oil and gas industries.
Clients have been waiting for its arrival and there is continuing work in the pipeline.
“Her acquisition means we have achieved our primary objective to own and operate a fully-mobilised UK-based DPII offshore support vessel” said R7M director Mike Jones, at the company’s diving and subsea division base in Lefevre Way, Great Yarmouth.
“In the past we have operated other companies’ DPII class vessels to support our work but we always recognised the importance of securing our own vessel so we can control costs better and provide a more precise and efficient service to clients.”
CONTINUING WORK AND SAFETY RECORD
Meanwhile, R7M continues to be heavily involved in a major contract at one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms, Greater Gabbard, off Suffolk. It’s been a real test of skills and endurance with near non-stop 24/7 operations over two years, working for Fluor, on the project. It is being achieved with an impeccable safety record, to date clocking up more than 2250 dives.
As well as operating from vessels, R7M has working-at-height access teams working with transition pieces on the turbines themselves.
The contract has been extended to the end of September – and possibly beyond – for R7M to carry out some additional cabling related work.
SHERINGHAM SHOAL AND THANET WINDFARMS
Not far away, R7M successfully completed its contract at the Sheringham Shoal windfarm, off Norfolk, in May where it worked from the Ocean Dragon on the cable-landing site; from the jack-up JB104, installing pull-in towers and hydraulic containers on the substation upper decks; and from Volantis, installing monopile seabed bell mouths and PE pipes and assisting in the installation of j-tube extensions.
The company also worked for three weeks for Vattenfall at the Thanet windfarm, off Kent, with diving and dredging operations to survey for export cable joints.
Diving constitutes 50% of R7M turnover with the company also specialising in a full range of surface construction work and ‘at height’ projects such as the access for turbine transition pieces.
WORLDWIDE
Red7Marine is a global player, often with more than 20 operations under way at any one time worldwide. The company’s success is underlined by maintaining 80- 90% utilisation of the current resources which, along with the new DPII vessel, includes a fleet of five jack-up barges, 10 tugs, 10 flattop barges, one harbour dredger plus 160 inland interconnecting pontoons, cranes and piling systems.
Headquartered at Wrabness, Manningtree, R7M also has bases at Ipswich, Northfleet and Exeter.
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GREAT YARMOUTH BASE The Great Yarmouth diving and subsea base was opened two years ago and staffing there has increased from 15 to 35-plus and is still growing. This year it is offering apprenticeships to school leavers.
Mr Jones stressed the company’s versatility and attention to quality and safety standards, with particular expertise working outside the 12-mile limit to IMCA standards and offshore diving ACoP. As a demonstration of the company’s commitment to safety, health and quality, R7M can also announce successfully achieving IS0 9001:2008 accreditation with Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA), and recently achieved membership of the International Marine Contractor Association (IMCA) within the Diving Division.
“There are very few companies like ours which can undertake such a range of activities, owning and operating our own equipment and using a highly skilled, fully-employed workforce,” he added.
For the future, R7M will continue chasing global business in the offshore renewables and oil and gas fields and in power and telecoms cable installation.
Red7Marine
www.red7marine.co.uk
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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