OSVS & CABLE INSTALLATIONS
GLOBAL MARINE GROUP REPORTS BUSY SPRING PERIOD HEADING INTO THE SUMMER MONTHS WITH RESOURCES ENGAGED AROUND THE GLOBE
The Global Marine Group (GMG), a market leader in offshore engineering, is reporting a successful first five months of 2017 with a strong outlook for the rest of the year. All key assets from the GMG fleet are currently mobilised, either supporting maintenance zone agreements around the world, or on installation, maintenance or repair contracts.
“As we head into the summer months, we are extremely pleased about our robust activity level, which we feel is a reflection of our high performance standards, reputation and strong relationships across the industry,” said Ian Douglas, CEO of the Global Marine Group. “We are consistently mobilising quickly to deliver high-quality, on-time and on-budget solutions to all our customers’ demands experience, proven know-how and the resources to get things right first time. We have the personnel, vessels and technology to meet these demands.”
CWind, the group’s offshore power focused business, has its 18-strong fleet of Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) and another eight chartered vessels, busy supporting clients on key wind farms across the UK and Europe with
a variety of subsea and topside solutions. In February of this year it was announced that CWind would incorporate the resources and power cable capabilities of its parent company, GMG, to expand the breadth of services it offers to wind farm owners and developers.
In addition to completing major scopes of work at the Godewind Offshore Wind Farm using a DPS-2 vessel, CWind has also recently utilised a key asset in the GMG fleet, C.S. Sovereign, to complete back-to-back power cable repairs. First, CWind finished the successful repair of a vital power cable that reconnected the Isles of Scilly to mainland electricity, and then another repair commission in the North Sea.
CS Recorder, a recent addition to the group’s fleet, has just completed remedial burial work on the CIEG (Channel Islands Electricity Grid) power cable between Guernsey and Jersey. The project benefitted from the mobilisation
M-TECH OFFSHORE A/S
M-Tech Offshore A/S, is a danish joint venture company equally owned by NT Offshore A/S and Maritech International LTD, owning and operating the CLV SIA, an efficient handy-sized DP-2 cable laying vessel, which is configured for worldwide inter- array and subsea power cable installations and maintenance, with additional facilities on-board to accommodate for installation of smaller subsea cables, including fibre-optics.
The CLV SIA flies the danish flag, is a fully SOLAS classed vessel, equipped with efficient cable lay spread, 3 turn-table cable tanks, deck winches, A-frame & cranes and accommodates SIMEC’s work-class trenching ROV “Seagma”,
suitable for inspection, survey and burial operations on up to 3m trenching depth, on maximum operating water depth of 1000m.
Additional modular deck spreads are also available for support operations such as pre-lay grapnel runs and route clearances. The 500m2 vessel’s deck has been strengthened for LARS, making it an ideal ROV support platform, whist the on-board survey electronic spread, moon-pool and side mounted equipment can be utilised for cable route survey operations.
In addition to cable laying capabilities, the CLV SIA has modern and comfortable accommodation for 50 passengers with crew and can be utilised as a multipurpose support vessel, capable of handling challenging environmental conditions.
and deployment of another of the group’s assets, the Q1000 jet-trenching Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), which offers 1000hp of total installed and variable jetting power. The Q1000 is ideal for trenching pipelines, umbilicals and cables to a burial depth of 3m at a speed of up to 400m per hour. CS Recorder will shortly begin work on another installation project.
Further afield, the group’s telecoms focused business, Global Marine, who have installed over 300,000km or 21% of all subsea cable across the world, has the Networker and her crew currently primed for a fibre optic cable installation project between Karimun and Batam in Malaysia. The Networker is the first purpose-built cable-working barge in South East Asia, and one of the largest vessels of her kind, ideally designed to deliver projects in shallow waters and narrow corridors.
Acquisition and subsequent upgrade of the CLV SIA follows the 2016 announcement that Maritech International LTd with NT Offshore A/S had formed the Joint Venture company M-Tech Offshore A/S. Maritech’s 25 years of experience in the subsea cable industry, coupled with NT’s long-term presence in the North Sea, is now backed by a strategically positioned vessel management office in Esbjerg, Denmark.
M-Tech Offshore A/S, Torskekaj 1, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark /
e: commercial@m-tech
offshore.eu July 2017 |
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