Heavy lift supervisor Gaynor Horner hails from Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast. He has been lifting around the world for the past 20 years, including lengthy periods in Oman, Dubai, and the North Sea.
These days, you’ll find him on board SEA WORKER, keeping a watchful eye (“Like a hawk”) on every lifting task, but he has also worked with SEA JACK back in 2011, and more recently with SEA INSTALLER during mobilisation in the Netherlands. Continue reading
By Søren Grøn, Project Manager, A2SEA
SEA INSTALLER shows what she can really do
At West of Duddon Sands, SEA INSTALLER started out with monopiles and transition pieces. Now she has demonstrated what she was originally designed to do: transport no fewer than eight 3.6 MW topsides at a time for installation far from shore. Continue reading
By Glen Andresen, Senior Manager, Project Engineering
A2SEA has done plenty of mobilisations over the years. But never one quite like the recent makeover of SEA INSTALLER for West of Duddon Sands. It was the biggest mobilisation we have ever attempted – both in time, in effort and in the sheer number of people involved. Continue reading
For Junior Engineering Inspector Michael Højbjerg, the chance to join the A2SEA site office in Qidong, China, where SEA CHALLENGER is under construction, was an exciting opportunity to (literally) get deep into the workings of the new, second-generation vessel. Continue reading
Nicholas Pine is used to a bit of everything. With his job as A2SEA’s site manager for West of Duddon Sands, he certainly needs to be. Before joining the offshore wind industry and A2SEA three years ago, he worked all over the world with heavy construction projects. Now, you might think that Asia and the Middle East, in particular, would have thrown enough challenges at him to last a lifetime, but Nicholas is thriving on his latest home ground at Belfast harbour – and he’s enjoying working with SEA INSTALLER, too. Continue reading
By Tony Millward, Senior Project Manager, A2SEA A/S
Complex geotechnics, a tight, seven-month winter project, and a client whose programme called for multiple, simultaneous vessel operations. With demands like these, the Anholt project needed as much as it could get of that magic ingredient: teamwork. And its steep learning curves meant, however, that the A2SEA team was under plenty of pressure. Continue reading
The SEA CHALLENGER newbuild project has encountered a different and difficult kind of big wave – a record heat wave. Continue reading
By Malte Bruun, Master, SEA INSTALLER
One of the most exciting – and promising – parts of SEA INSTALLER’s design has always been its positioning and propulsion system. And, now that the vessel has been hard at work for the past six months, we’ve had a chance to see how this system works in the real world of wind turbine installation. Continue reading
Designed on the basis of the knowledge and experience gained from installing over 800 turbines and more than 400 foundations, A2SEA’s SEA INSTALLER is one of the offshore wind industry’s most sophisticated installation vessels. To find out what makes the SEA INSTALLER so special, we talked to Hans Peter Johannsen, Head of Engineering and Senior Project Manager at A2SEA. Continue reading
The Gunfleet Sands 3 Demonstration Project involved A2SEA’s SEA INSTALLER transporting and installing two Siemens 6MW turbines at the DONG Energy-owned and operated wind farm. Located off the coast of East Anglia, the project gave all three companies the opportunity to bring their latest technology to the table, and put it to the test. Continue reading