Offshore wind farm parks increasingly collect a host of maintenance services to be performed during the season. For easy logistics, IKM Ocean Team newly introduced the below set of light weight tanks and lifting unit for use in the fragile maritime environment.
Tanks designed with many safety features for offshore use.
Required: Tanks with many benefits
The client needed an offshore oil change on three systems: Gear-, hydraulic-, and yaw gear oil systems. This operation required tanks transporting and containing gear and hydraulic oil, new- and flushing oil for re-use, and waste oil.
A Regulated Field
The fragile maritime environment is heavily regulated to protect the natural life suffering from eventual oil spills, hence offshore lifting is performed in a strictly regulated field, and therefore transport and lifting of oil tanks in open sea environment are subject to a high degree of safety.
Further, the client was unable to avail heated oil storage tanks imperative for operation without the risk of pump cavitation.
The SOCOTFLexPlus® is lifted on board with the Unilift®.
Approved Solution
Transport and lifting of oil tanks in open sea environment are approved by DNVGL according to ST-0378 lifting from a moving vessel to a stationary wind turbine TP. The tanks comply with International Marine Organization: UN 31A/Z/ with this combination of oil tank and lifting beam. This is a differentiated technology with a patent pending.
Link to Technical Data Sheet
Furthermore, the tanks added value during the project storing and heating oil during the oil change process on the SOV and on the TP. For further benefits, please look on our website.
Stacked UN-Tanks®, SOCOTFLexPlus® and Unilift®
Customer Statement:
“Jxxx has been more than helpful on our rotation (IKM Ocean Team Supervisor(Editor)). Jxxx has not only been doing his job on the TP with the UN-Tanks, but he has also be training our guys on how to work the SocotFlexPlus. He has gone above and beyond by helping the customer techs. He has nothing but positivity every day and the moral between this team has been excellent. The feedback from all the customer techs regarding Jxxx has been 100% positive, and this is why I want to send this email regarding Jxxx. I would also like to keep Jxxx in this team going forward as we now all have a great relationship and each person has their own roles to play.”