Major Seabed Clearance Project for Ecosse Subsea Systems
The project scope for Hornsea Project One export cables, located 120km off the Yorkshire coast, is the latest in a number of renewable energy sector awards secured by Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS). On completion, Hornsea Project One will generate enough clean energy to power more than one million UK homes, generated by 174 giant wind turbines and transported along a 900km long network of cables.
ESS will deploy its patented SCAR2 Seabed System along a 25m corridor from an anchor handling vessel on behalf of client Tideway. Mobilising from Sunderland, ESS will also complete survey and boulder grabbing workscopes from a second vessel. The project is expected to last 90 days and is the second largest project awarded to Banchory-based company to date. The SCAR2 Seabed System has been paired with the Siem vessels on previous projects, most recently on the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm off the Caithness coast when ESS prepared a 15km route in water depths of between 30-60m.