Red Rock are once again very proud to announce that they have been awarded a contract by Vard for equipment supply to 1 service offshore vessels (SOVs) owned by North Star Renewables. The vessel will be operating on Dogger Bank C and is a third order of a VARD 4 12 SOV.
The equipment supply consists of:
1 x 2T 3D Motion Compensated crane, 1 x 2T Boatlanding cranes and 1 x 1T Shipboard crane. Equipment deliveries scheduled for Q3 2023 to Vard Vung Tau.
Senior Sales Officer James Chalmers quotes “We are very grateful to have the opportunity to extend our equipment delivery with this fourth vessel which will introduce yet another crane with our 3D Motion Compensation technology. We look forward to working with our long standing and valued client Vard on these newbuilds and establish a solid and long lasting working relation with North Star Renewables.
The Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be located more than 130km off the North East coast of England and when complete will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
These vessel will be used in the first two phases, Dogger Bank A and B, which are ajoint venture between SSE Renewables (40%), Equinor (40%) and Eni (20%) .
Each phase will have an installed generation capacity of up to 1.2GW and represents a multi-billion pound investment.
Along with the third phase, Dogger Bank C, which is a joint venture between SSE Renewables (50%) and Equinor (50%) and being developed on a different timescale, the Dogger Bank wind farm will have an installed capacity of up to 3.6GW and will be capable of powering up to 6 million homes.