Case Studies

  • East Anglia ONE Offshore Wind Farm (2019)

    East Anglia ONE Offshore Wind Farm (2019)

    East Anglia ONE has an installed capacity of up to 714MW, supplying enough clean, green energy to power over 630,000 homes.

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  • Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm (2018)

    Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm (2018)

    Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm is operated and maintained from its base at Wick Harbour in the North East of Scotland

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  • Belwind 6MW Turbine Jacket (2014)

    Belwind 6MW Turbine Jacket (2014)

    Grouting the Astom Haliade 150-6MW Test Turbine

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  • Energy Park Fife (2013)

    Energy Park Fife (2013)

    FoundOcean secured the 500 tonne, four-legged steel jacket foundation for Samsung’s 7MW offshore turbine, the world’s largest turbine, in 2013.

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  • Gwynt y Môr Offshore Windfarm (2013)

    Gwynt y Môr Offshore Windfarm (2013)

    FoundOcean grouted the 160-monopile foundations for RWE Innogy's 576MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm, in water depths ranging from 12 to 28 meters.

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  • Zawtika Freespan Correction (2013)

    Zawtika Freespan Correction (2013)

    Remedial works to a 300km long gas export pipeline in the Gulf of Mottama.

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  • Rock socket grouting for Narec's Offshore Anemometry Hub (2013)

    Rock socket grouting for Narec's Offshore Anemometry Hub (2013)

    Two-stage rock socket and pile grouting for the tripod foundation for Narec's Offshore Anemometry Hub (NOAH)

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  • West of Duddon Sands (2013)

    West of Duddon Sands (2013)

    FoundOcean completed grouting operations for the 108-monopile foundations for 389MW West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm.

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  • North Rankin B Rock Socket Pile Grouting (2012)

    North Rankin B Rock Socket Pile Grouting (2012)

    Rock socket and pile grouting the 16-sleeve North Rankin B jacket which houses one of the world’s largest topsides.

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  • Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Pipeline Repair (2011)

    Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Pipeline Repair (2011)

    Using a grouted clamp and fabric formwork to repair a deep-water pipeline damaged by a cable-laying vessel dragging its anchor along the seabed during bad weather.

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  • North Sea Jacket Stabilisation (2011)

    North Sea Jacket Stabilisation (2011)

    Seabed scour had occurred at the crown-shim welded platform, causing the jacket to move. Donut-shaped formworks were installed, and the piles were grouted to strengthen the connection.

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  • Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm (2010)

    Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm (2010)

    FoundOcean completes grouting operations for the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm, the first large-scale commercial wind farm in European waters to use jacket foundations.

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  • Strengthening the Valhall Quarters Platform (2010)

    Strengthening the Valhall Quarters Platform (2010)

    Due to regulation changes, the jacket needed upgrading to increase its strength and resistance to freak waves.

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  • Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm Phases 2 & 3 (2010)

    Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm Phases 2 & 3 (2010)

    Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm has a total capacity of 326 MW and is installed 30 km off the Belgian coast.

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  • Walney Offshore Windfarm Substation P1 (2010)

    Walney Offshore Windfarm Substation P1 (2010)

    The Walney Offshore Windfarm will consist of 51 turbines each with a capacity of 3.6MW. FoundOcean pile grouted the four leg jacket style foundations for Substation P1.

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  • Fall of Warness (Orkney) Tidal Turbine (2009)

    Fall of Warness (Orkney) Tidal Turbine (2009)

    The tidal test site at the Fall of Warness was chosen for its high velocity marine currents which reach almost 7.8 knots at spring tides.

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  • Baobab Gas Pipeline Supports (2009)

    Baobab Gas Pipeline Supports (2009)

    FoundOcean breaks the depth record by deploying fabric formworks at 1,224m to stabilise the Baobab pipeline, Ivory Coast.

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  • BP CATS 36" Gas Pipeline Repair (2007)

    BP CATS 36" Gas Pipeline Repair (2007)

    The CATS pipeline had suffered damage from a vessel anchor. A repair was undertaken using a grouted sleeve and fabric formworks for stability.

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  • Hanze F2A Underbase Grouting GBS (2000)

    Hanze F2A Underbase Grouting GBS (2000)

    The steel gravity base structure's void between the underside and seabed was filled with a sodium silicate cement grout to even out undulations and secure it to the seabed.

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  • Continuous Formwork Cable Protection (1997)

    Continuous Formwork Cable Protection (1997)

    Farmers cultivate seaweed in this stretch of water by driving long steel poles into the trench and stringing crops between them. The cable required protecting from vertical impact.

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