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Ørsted and HBC Group Resume Subsea Inspection Cooperation

Ørsted has awarded HBC Group the contract to conduct subsea inspection campaigns for the 5th successive year.
Under the contract, HBC Group will this year carry out the inspection campaigns at 10 of Ørsted’s offshore wind farms located on the UK East and West Coast and in the German North Sea Sector.
HBC Group is to perform IMR utilising their vessel HBC Achiever. The works will be performed with a combination of ROV and diving operation. HBC Group has over the last 4 years inspected a total of 335 foundations and 26 Substations. This includes Monopiles, Jackets, Suction bucket jackets and gravity based concrete structures. The two companies have previously cooperated on a number of successful offshore wind projects, always conducted to a very high safety standard.

HBC has completed the Ørsted Subsea Inspection Campaign 2018

HBC has now successfully completed the Ørsted Subsea Inspection Campaign on Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm (UK), Borkum Riffgrund Offshore Windfarm (DE), Gode Wind 1 Offshore Windfarm (DE) and Gode Wind 2 Offshore Windfarm (DE).

HBC Achiever


The campaign was carried out in a safe manner without any accidents, while maintaining a high quality standard, to ensure the subsea integrity of all the assets.

In the past three years has HBC performed a wide array of subsea inspection and maintenance tasks during the Ørsted Campaign across Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom, to the clients great satisfaction.

We thank all the HBC project personnel as well as the client. The great dedication and collaboration between Ørsted and HBC ensured the success and safety of the campaign.

Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm

HBC has completed the subsea inspection of campaign of Middelgrunden Offshore Windfarm.

The subsea inspection campaign was carried out to ensure the asset integrity of the HOFOR owned wind turbines.

To accommodate for the shallow waters of the site, all diving was performed for special purpose shallow water vessel HBC Tender, with assistance from the mother craft.

We thank the HBC Project team for the succesfull and safe campaign, along with the client for a good collaboration.

Rampion 2017

HBC Offshore Solutions Ltd have recommenced the operations supporting Fugro with the installation of the array cables on the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm project.


Fugro is laying and bury 122 array cables with its construction and installation vessels Fugro Symphony and Fugro Saltire and using one of its two Q1400 trenching systems to bury the cables. HBC Offshore Solutions Ltd will provide the rigging teams and cable installation equipment supporting Fugro during the installation of the cables at both the WTG’s and the offshore Substation.

The Rampion Offshore Wind Farm being built by E.ON, the Green Investment Bank plc and Canadian energy company Enbridge, will consist of 116 turbines, each with a generating capacity of 3.45 MW. Construction is expected to be completed in 2018.

UK Subsea Campaign 2017 – DONG Energy

HBC is proud to announce that we have once again been awarded the UK Subsea Inspection Campaign across DONG Energy’s Wind Farm’s in the United Kingdom.


Following the successful campaign of the previous year, HBC is looking forward to the opportunity to, once again, show our great capabilities and experience within the field.

This year we will be carrying out Subsea Inspections on offshore structures across five UK wind farms: Race Bank, Westermost Rough, Burbo Bank, Walney and Barrow.