1272 results found for 'scour'

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  • Pipeshield Scour Protection for East Anglia One

    13 February 2019
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Pipeshield International has secured a contract from DeepOcean to supply the scour protection for the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. Over 300 bespoke fronded concrete mattresses have been manufactured at the port of Great Yarmouth within close proximity of the deep water berth. Fronds are a dense carpet of strands, like a bionic seaweed, woven […]

  • HR Wallingford and Rostock University Collaborate on Scour Research

    8 February 2018
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    HR Wallingford and the University of Rostock are conducting a research on the development of scour on offshore substation jacket foundations located in the German part of the North Sea.

  • Boskalis to Provide Scour Protection for Yunlin Monopiles

    17 December 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has secured a contract by Yunneng Wind Power to provide scour protection for the turbine foundations at the Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan. The contract will see Boskalis installing rock on the seabed around 71 monopile foundations serving as scour protection. In total 325,000t of rock sourced from local quarries […]

  • Scour Protection Work Begins at Aberdeen Bay OWF

    8 November 2017

    Boskalis’ fallpipe vessel (FPV) Rockpiper is carrying out scour protection works at the Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm. According to a notice to mariners, Rockpiper will be working at the project site for three weeks and was scheduled to start on 28 October.

  • EU Researchers Join Hands to Tackle Monopile Scour

    8 June 2018
    Research & Development

    European scour researchers have kicked off PROTEUS, a new EU Hydralab+ project, which aims to improve the design of scour protection around offshore wind turbine monopiles and future-proof them against the impacts of climate change.

  • Scour Prevention Receives Quality Management System Accreditation

    13 January 2014

    The British Standards Institute has certified Scour Prevention Systems Ltd (SPSL) with ISO 9001 accreditation for its Quality Management Systems. Namely, the Lowestoft-based SPSL has developed an innovative anti-scour system in the form of a mattress constructed from recycled tyres, termed the Scour Prevention Mat (SPM). The SPM is proven to be an effective solution […]

  • Scour Prevention Systems Secures SCORE Funding

    30 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Grant programme, Supply Chain innovation for Offshore Renewable Energy (SCORE), announces the first SMEs to receive funding to drive forward their innovative products and processes which benefit the offshore renewable energy supply chain. Lowestoft-based company, Scour Prevention Systems, which offers a field proven, patented and innovative solution for the prevention of scour around offshore structures […]

  • SUBSEA PROTECTION: Protection solutions against scouring

    30 March 2015

    In the previous article we spoke about the importance of accurate wind measurement for an optimum wind farm design. But also underwater there are elements that need to be taken into consideration when designing the foundation and cable structures for each wind turbine. Waves and currents can cause erosion of the seabed around a fixed […]

  • HR Wallingford Carrying Out Scour Protection Modelling for EA1

    8 May 2017

    HR Wallingford is currently conducting physical modelling in its Fast Flow Facility to test the scour development and the performance of a frond mat scour protection system to protect the jacket piles for the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm.

  • VIDEO: Boskalis Scour Protection at West of Duddon Sands

    10 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Boskalis Offshore was responsible for the post-lay installation of scour protection around 108 monopiles at the offshore wind farm West of Duddon Sands. 92,000 TE of 9 – 18” armour rock was installed through the side dump unit of DP fallpipe vessel Seahorse.   With 108 wind turbines producing almost 400 megawatts, West of Duddon […]

  • Six Companies Collaborate on New Scour Protection Project

    31 January 2019
    Research & Development

    Great Yarmouth’s Seabed Scour Control Systems (SSCS) is leading a new £1m project to develop an innovative self-installing scour protection system that could save the average wind farm approximately £8.6m over its lifetime. The Innovate UK-backed, 20-month Self-Installing Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Farms (SISProtect) project is a collaboration between six industry partners. The design of the prototype […]

  • Subcon Bags CPM Contract for Supply of Scour Systems

    3 November 2017
    Equipment

    Subcon has been awarded a contract by Citic Pacific Mining (CPM) for the design and supply of scour systems for berth pocket stabilization at the Sino Iron Terminal at Port of Cape Preston. CPM exports a magnetite concentrate via its a purpose-built terminal at Port of Cape Preston which is located approximately 60 kilometers south-west of Dampier. […]

  • Deltares Delivers Borssele Substations Scour Protection Design

    10 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Deltares has worked with HSM Offshore on the updating of the scour protection design for the Borssele Alpha & Beta offshore high-voltage substation (OHVS) platforms that connect the wind farms in the Borssele Wind Farm Zone (Netherlands) to the grid. Deltares performed model tests in 2016 to investigate scour development and conceptual scour protection for […]

  • UK: Scour Prevention Systems Wins Top Award

    10 July 2013

    Lowestoft based start-up Scour Prevention Systems has won the ‘One to Watch’ award at the East Anglian Daily Times Business Awards 2013. The company, based at the OrbisEnergy innovation centre, has developed an innovative and patented solution to prevent scour around the base of offshore structures like wind turbines and over cables lying on the […]

  • Scour Prevention Systems Presents at Offshore Renewables Event

    20 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Lowestoft-based business Scour Prevention Systems Ltd (SPSL) was shortlisted as one of eight companies to present in Ultralight Startups Online Investor Challenge, where they presented their innovative Scour Prevention Mats to a panel of investors from around the world. Supported by the Shell Game Changer Programme, this high profile event featured eight early-stage energy and […]

  • Scour Prevention Systems Appoints New Business Development Manager

    3 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Scour Prevention Systems Ltd (SPSL) have announced the appointment of business development manager Tim Smith to their growing team. Tim was previously sales manager at leading offshore wind industry service provider CWind. Prior to that he was business development manager at Fendercare, where he played a leading role in developing the company’s activities in the […]

  • Norfolk Marine’s Scour Prevention System for Elisa Floater

    5 July 2017
    Technology

    Norfolk Marine’s Tyre Filled Net (TFN) scour prevention system will be installed as scour protection for the foundation of the 5MW Elisa prototype under construction in the Canary Islands.

  • HR Wallingford: Scour and Erosion Event Kicks Off

    13 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    The 8th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, ICSE 2016, kicked off yesterday in Oxford, bringing together scour and erosion specialists from more than 30 countries. Over 130 papers will be presented during the four-day event to an international audience of scientists and engineers from the broad areas of civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, geotechnical engineering, coastal […]

  • IHCantabria Works on East Anglia ONE Scour Protection

    27 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    The Environmental Hydraulics Institute of the Cantabria (IHCantabria) is carrying out physical experiments of the scour protection around the Jacket Legs at the new Iberdrola offshore wind farm – East Anglia ONE In these physical tests the metocean characteristics of the studied location are simulated and the real Jackets’ orientation and the seabed characteristics are […]

  • Norfolk Marine Provides Scour Remediation for Scroby Sands

    4 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Norfolk Marine has completed installation of its TFN scour remediation system to E.ON’s Scroby Sands offshore wind farm. The system has been installed to 5 monopile foundations on the site to provide protection against further scouring of the seabed at the foundation bases. After testing and development including scale modelling at HR Wallingford’s new Fast Flow Facility […]

  • Germany: Peter Madsen Rederi Completes Scour Protection at Amrumbank

    25 November 2013

    Peter Madsen Rederi A/S has completed work on Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea. The Danish company has laid 45,000 sand bags around wind turbine foundations to prevent scour forming which would destabilise the foundation. The bags were filled with 60,000 tons of dredged sand, which were laid in a period of […]

  • Tideway Starts Scour Protection Works at Norther OWF

    3 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Activities on the Norther offshore wind farm have started this month with scour protection works in the North Sea. The bottom of the turbine location will be strengthened by placing large stones around the supporting structures. “This is one of the first visible activities of the construction of the Norther offshore wind farm. We are […]

  • Innovative Scour Protection System Put to Test in Denmark

    12 February 2013
    Research & Development

    In the framework of the Marinet program, IMDC, in a partnership with HR Wallingford, University of Ghent and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, finalised the physical model tests at the University of Aalborg (DK) at the end of December 2012. The test program was set-up to investigate an innovative scour protection […]

  • First jacket comes to slide into place at huge offshore gas project

    7 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    ADNOC has tucked a new construction milestone under its belt with the load-out and transport of the first jacket for its multibillion-dollar giant sour gas development, which aims to become the world’s first project to operate with net-zero emissions.

  • OMM Uses Geofabrics’ ELCOROCK System for Scour Protection

    11 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has teamed up with Geofabrics Australasia, who provides geotextiles and geosynthetic engineering solutions to create a new and effective, environmentally sensitive and sustainable solution for scour protection at the base of wind turbines. OMM will be using Geofabrics ELCOROCK System, a robust sand filled container made from the highest durability geotextile […]