Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed a 14-day seabed clearance project on the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm Ltd project, located approximately 13 km off the Caithness coast. ESS deployed its SCAR2 Seabed System from the Siem Ruby vessel on behalf of client Siem Offshore Contractors. Several hundred boulders were removed over a 15 km route…

Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has been awarded a seabed clearance project on the £2.6bn Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm (BOWL) in the Outer Moray Firth. The subsea technology company will conduct boulder clearing operations in 50-meter water depth, deploying its SCAR2 Seabed System from the Siem Ruby vessel on behalf of client Siem Offshore Contractors. BOWL is located…

Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) recently collected the Engineering Excellence Award for outstanding design at the Green Energy Awards hosted by Scottish Renewables in Edinburgh. ESS has designed and patented a number of tools used in seabed clearance, route preparation, trenching, and cable laying operations in the renewables. The company’s SCAR Seabed System impressed judges, who noted they system’s…

Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed a second major seabed clearance project on behalf of DONG Energy on what will be one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms. The Scottish subsea technology specialist cleared more than 3,000 boulders at the site of the DONG Energy’s Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm, located off the Norfolk and…

Subsea technology specialist, Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS), has extended a trenching scope on the Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea after the award of a seabed clearance project. The contract has now doubled in scope with provision of route clearance and seabed preparation work on the 350-MW Wikinger development. Keith McDermott, ESS Commercial Director, explains:…