Seaworthy new talents wanted at the OBMC 2011

- The international offshore sector meets in Husum

Husum - Two jack-up barges each over 100 m long and with supporting legs which can be raised and lowered as required, high speed vessels for transporting personnel and small-scale equipment, pilot and guard ships – a crew of 50, plus 200 technicians and engineers have to be transported on a fleet of up to 30 ships when a new offshore wind farm is being built. Thousands of new specialised jobs will be created in Germany. Schleswig-Holstein will also be able to profit from this when the seven planned wind farms with a total of 560 wind turbines are constructed off the west coast of the region. As soon as the rotor blades begin to turn, at least two service ships per wind farm will be on regular duty, checking the generators, fire protection systems and foundations. Helicopters will also be frequently used for transporting staff. Even smaller local ports and airfields, as in Husum and Büsum, can have a new role to play here.

The wind farm ’Bard I’ is currently under construction 100 kilometres off the coast of Borkum. The energy utility company RWE plans to lay the foundations for the offshore project ‘Nordsee-Ost’ northwest of Helgoland before the end of this year. On this deep-sea island alone there are likely to be more than 100 new jobs in service and maintenance of the offshore wind farm. But trained and qualified staff is rare. Discussions and tests are also in progress with regard to construction sites and maintenance logistics on the high seas.

The international Offshore Business Meetings and Conference (OBMC) on 7 and 8 November 2011 will provide a platform for contacts between small and medium-sized enterprises, job seekers and the large wind plant manufacturers and operators. Representatives of the wind and maritime sectors will be giving talks in the NordseeCongressCentrum on the current opportunities for training and further training courses. The supporting programme at the 2011 conference will include for the first time a job fair and the presentation of innovative products and services.

Representatives of the Schleswig-Holstein wind farm operators e.on and Vattenfall, among other speakers, have agreed to give talks at the conference. \"Networking with international markets is crucial for the business location Schleswig-Holstein,\" explains Dr. Matthias Hüppauff, project administrator for the network agency windcomm schleswig-holstein. \"This year we are extending the cross-sector nature of our network meeting to include representatives of the oil and gas industries. We aim to bring together the old and the new energies and to close the gaps in the value added chains.\"

The motto of the OBMC 2011 is \"Learning from the oil and gas sectors\" and the lectures will thus be mainly reports on experiences gained in these sectors. The second day of the event will see an exclusive presentation of the logistics and service concepts of the Ports Cooperation \"Offshore Häfen Nordsee SH\".

For further information see http://www.windcomm.de.


Husum, 1 September 2011


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