Fugro Seacore announced last week it has been awarded the contract to build an offshore cooling water shaft for the new Flamanville EPR 3 nuclear facility near Cherbourg in Normandy, France.
The works are part of a sub contract with Soletanche-Bachy France for Electricité de France (EDF).
The €15M (£10.4M) contract will involve Fugro Seacore drilling a 5.85m diameter shaft 65m deep in metamorphic limestone. The work will be carried out from Fugro Seacore’s jack-up barge "Excalibur" using reverse circulation pile top drill to create the shaft.
Fugro Seacore worked closely with Soletanche-Bachy to design and develop a drilled solution for the shaft in contrast to conventional drill and blast operations that were deployed extensively during the construction of the shafts for the two existing reactors in the region.
The works are part of a sub contract with Soletanche-Bachy France for Electricité de France (EDF).
The €15M (£10.4M) contract will involve Fugro Seacore drilling a 5.85m diameter shaft 65m deep in metamorphic limestone. The work will be carried out from Fugro Seacore’s jack-up barge "Excalibur" using reverse circulation pile top drill to create the shaft.
Fugro Seacore worked closely with Soletanche-Bachy to design and develop a drilled solution for the shaft in contrast to conventional drill and blast operations that were deployed extensively during the construction of the shafts for the two existing reactors in the region.
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