Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed a £4.7 million boulder clearing and pre-lay trenching project which it claims has been one of the most successful ever conducted for the wind energy sector.

As subcontractor to Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC), the Banchory-based subsea specialist completed 86 boulder clearing passes followed by 172 first and multi-passes over a 90km route during a 13-week boulder clearing and trenching campaign on the EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm project.

The project was on schedule and on budget and now ESS is looking to secure a frame agreement with SOC for similar works on renewables schemes across Europe.

Several thousand boulders ranging up to 4m in size were cleared from the individual cable routes and ESS performed 260 individual route passes in varying and sometimes challenging soil conditions.

ESS managing director, Mike Wilson, said: “We created a lot of firsts on EnBW Baltic 2. It was our largest contract to date, our first non-UK trenching workscope and our first project for a German offshore wind farm project.

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