Wind farm developer AilesMarines is launching its drilling test campaign for the French Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm project.
The crane vessel Bokalift 1, chartered by van Oord, has started its drilling tests following the agreement of the Prefect of Côtes d’Armor and the Maritime Prefect.
The test campaign will take place in September.
Bokalift 1 will carry out drilling tests on 3 wind turbine sites of the future offshore wind farm of Saint- Brieuc.
The objective is to validate that drilling can be applied at the Saint-Brieuc site in order to reduce the noise impact on fish species and marine mammals.
This campaign is in line with Ailes Marines’s desire to define solutions with less impact on the environment, with the maximum replacement of foundation pile driving by drilling.