PanGeo Subsea has secured a contract to carry out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey on an offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
The survey will cover an area of some 18km2 for export cables, inter-array cables and offshore platforms.
PanGeo’s Sub Bottom Imager (SBI) will be used as the sub-seabed depth of investigation is only to a maximum of around 6m, the company said.
”Clients are realising more and more that the SBI has an ability to reduce the amount of potential targets identified in earlier magnetometer surveys by up to 75%. In turn, this reduces the amount of actual targets which are subject to subsequent physical investigation – a good way of reducing project costs while protecting or indeed accelerating project schedules,” PanGeo said.
This is the company’s 20th UXO survey.