Wind Farm Deal for JFMS Extremely Proud to Have Been Awarded This JFMS Lands a New £3 Million Wind Farm Construction Contract Integrated Marine Services Contract
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QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER FOR FOR THE THE JAMES JAMES FISHER FISHER GROUP GROUP OF COMPANIESOF COMPANIES AUTUMNSPRING / WINTER 2017 2017 170 year anniversary 1 847-20 1 7 Teamwork success Bomb clearance Hurricane repair Staffing solution Group companies work JFMS receives praise for UXO JFSE embarks on 80th Rumic delivers speedy together to refuel Britain’s clearance work at Hinkley specialised excavation project manpower solution for Nexans biggest warship: Page 2 Point: Page 4 in the Gulf of Mexico: Page 5 in Scotland: Page 7 STOP PRESS Group renewables engineering boost James Fisher has expanded its offering to the offshore wind farm sector with the acquisition of EDS HV Group Ltd which provides high voltage engineering services to the renewables industry, covering everything from the design and installation of wind farm construction projects to monitoring- QUARTERLYfault management NEWSLETTER and repair and FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES SPRING 2017 maintenance. REGISTER Enter your email address at: https://www.james-fisher. com/media/pelican- NATO’s submarine rescue system put to the test registration to receive up-to-the-minute JFD has returned triumphant from the annual NATO training exercise, ‘Dynamic news and information about James Monarch 17’, in the Mediterranean after full action demonstrations of its NSRS Fisher companies straight to your inbox. capabilities. Full story on page 3 Wind farm deal for JFMS extremely proud to have been awarded this JFMS lands a new £3 million wind farm construction contract integrated marine services contract. We have had an eye on this prize from the day When it comes to wind farm construction Scottish Power Renewables was awarded support services, James Fisher Marine planning consent nearly four years ago, Services (JFMS) has an unparalleled and the team has worked tirelessly to beat reputation which has resulted in its latest competition from a number of large national appointment to work on the massive new and international competitors to win the deal.’ East Anglia ONE wind farm. JFMS is uniquely placed to work on this Scottish Power Renewables, which is project. The team has invested heavily in building the first of three wind farms off the the East of England over the last five years, coast of Norfolk (East Anglia ONE, TWO and spending the last two years working closely THREE) has announced that JFMS will be its on the prestigious Galloper Offshore Wind integrated marine services contractor during Farm project for Innogy and developing its the construction phase of ONE. site boundary markers and a range of marine own renewables support base in Lowestoft As part of this significant £3 million equipment and services as well as providing which makes maximum use of local supply contract, the team at JFMS will be providing the offshore site with a cutting edge voice chains and skilled local personnel to support marine coordination (using James Fisher’s and data communication system (using the the regional offshore renewables industry. state of the art, web-based Offshore Wind Fern Communications WaveCom offshore ‘The decision, in 2016, to relocate JFMS Management System, OWMS), supplying communications system). operations (offices and warehousing) to vessels (guard vessels and associated Martin Myhill Sisley, managing director, Lowestoft in Suffolk played an important services), installing and maintaining offshore JFMS renewables division says: ‘We’re Continued on page 2 Wind farm story continued part in our win,’ explains JFMS director, strategy and business development, Martin Dronfield. ‘A large percentage of our Galloper workforce live within a few miles of the coast here, and Scottish Power Renewables’s contractual obligation to use both UK and local content made this an important part of our successful tendering process.’ Another major factor was the cost reduction implications of having a significant fleet of topside and subsea equipment located in Lowestoft, close to the site (such as topside support equipment, unexploded ordnance identification and disposal equipment, diving and ROV equipment and CTVs and survey vessels) which enables swift response with low mobilisation and demobilisation costs. As part of a highly successful ‘integrated A supersized services model’ used at Galloper, JFMS also brings together specialist in-house expertise from a number of the James Fisher group companies (such as refuelling mission Fendercare and Strainstall), as required, to provide a bespoke, streamlined service. East Anglia ONE is a £2.5 billion wind James Fisher group companies FASCINATING FUEL FACTS farm development that has a planned joined forces to re-fuel the generation capacity of 714 megawatts 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier • The HMS Queen Elizabeth is the of power through 102 turbines – enough largest warship ever built for the Royal to power 500,000 homes. Preparatory HMS Queen Elizabeth in Navy, and capable of carrying up to construction and clearance has already Scotland prior to its launch 40 aircraft started in order that the first turbines can in December • She demands 4,000,000 litres of F-76 be installed in 2019, to ensure the site is fuel, PLUS 3,000,000 litres of F-44 for fully operational by 2020. Britain’s biggest warship needs four the embarked aircraft Jonathan Cole, managing director million litres of fuel to top up its enormous for offshore wind at Scottish Power tanks – a colossal operation which would • That’s over one million gallons for Renewables, says: ‘JFMS has a proven the ship, three quarters of a million make delivery via road tankers to the small track record for delivering comprehensive gallons for the air wing - or seven port town of Invergordon where it was bespoke solutions which, coupled with million litres in all based, completely impractical. the numerous bases it has in East Anglia, ‘Refuelling by road would demand around • That’s enough fuel to fill your car up makes the company very well placed to more than 127,000 times support us on East Anglia ONE.’ 120 lorries thundering across Scotland for This new contract also builds on each fuel stop,’ explains Andy Scraggs, Royal work JFMS has previously undertaken Navy Logistics and Infrastructure Division. for Scottish Power Renewables at its Instead JF Everard was called in to complex and teaming up with Fendercare Wikinger project off the German coast, help. Two British crewed coastal tankers enabled us to streamline the ship to ship and the team at JFMS clearly hopes this (the MV Sarnia Cherie and the MV Sarnia transfer of fuel. The effective result meant new contract will act as a springboard for Liberty) were duly loaded with fuel at the the fuel could be loaded as fast as possible, future large offshore projects. oil fuel depot in Gosport and then sailed to allowing the HMS Queen Elizabeth to fulfil Scotland. its sea trials and head back to its home Because the only available berth at port of Portsmouth for the commissioning Invergordon was a small, steeply shelving ceremony.’ mooring, the vessels had to be weighted The Royal Navy was thrilled with the down at the stern to counter the angle. Fuel procedure which went ahead at very was delivered to HMS Queen Elizabeth via short notice. In fact, Rear Admiral Richard two 250 metre-long hoses. Stokes wrote to JF Everard to thank The hoses were sourced by JF Everard the team for their part in this ‘national from sister company, Fendercare Marine. endeavour’, adding: ‘JFE’s whole hearted ‘This project is a great example of a and thoroughly professional contribution group partnership approach,’ says Fiona was critical in ensuring that the platform Everard, managing director of JF Everard. sea trials of our nation’s future flagship were ‘The re-fuelling operation was logistically conducted successfully.’ 02 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN / WINTER 2017 Central role for JFD in ‘Dynamic Monarch 17’ JFD has played a key part in a recent high profile NATO submarine testing exercise in the Mediterranean Sea Every three years NATO gathers member For 10 days numerous rescue and provide training where needed to both JFD countries together for a defence training intervention exercises took place – including operational personnel (on each element exercise called ‘Dynamic Monarch’ and this a highly complex 48-hour coordinated mass of the system) as well as to NSRS partner year, JFD, which manages and maintains evacuation exercise – which provided JFD nation personnel in areas such as rescue the NATO Submarine Rescue System with the first opportunity to demonstrate its chamber operations and medical support (NSRS) played a prestigious central role at full NSRS capability. functions. the event. Rob Pickering, JFD NSRS project Although JFD has played an integral role ‘Dynamic Monarch 17’ took place in manager says the success of this exercise in the UK’s submarine rescue provision since September in waters off the coast of enabled JFD’s highly trained teams to 1985, and has been at the heart of NSRS Southwestern Turkey. This, one of the reassure participant nations of the system’s since it came into service in 2008, JFD largest submarine rescue exercises in the capabilities in a real emergency. reclaimed the prestigious and internationally world, is designed to test the interoperability ‘Everything JFD was tasked with respected NATO submarine rescue contract of international forces and their effective completing operationally was done in 2015. The team is now tasked with response to distressed submarines. The successfully, with the team working maintaining NSRS in a permanent state operation demonstrates the capability together and performing to the highest of rescue readiness for the NATO partner of multi-national submarine rescue co- standards to help ensure Dynamic Monarch nations of France, Norway and the UK, to go operation and facilitates the sharing of went well,’ he adds. anywhere in the world at any time.