Today, the Norwegian Wergeland Group and PSW Group announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent with Huisman for the delivery of a Skyhook quayside crane at the Gulen Industrial Harbour, Norway.
The Skyhook crane has a lifting capacity of 2,600mt in regular configuration as well as a ‘high lift’ mode with a super fly jib, facilitating the assembly of today’s and tomorrow’s offshore wind turbines.
The crane will be deployed at the Gulen Industrial Harbour, the base of Wergeland and near PSW Group in Mongstad, providing additional potential for both decommissioning work as well as for outfitting the next generation deepwater semi-submersibles in the port’s 100-metre wide dock.
The location of the harbour, in the west of Norway, adds value to both the ambitions for offshore wind in Norway, and to the ongoing oil and gas developments on the Norwegian continental shelf. With the installation of 11 8MW Siemens Gamesa turbines for Norway’s first floating wind farm ‘Hywind Tampen’, Wergeland will demonstrate that Gulen Industrial Harbour has the potential to become the key assembly location for Norwegian offshore wind projects.