Fugro lands East Anglia Two seabed survey work worth covering 64 monopiles

Fugro will survey all 64 monopile foundation locations at the 960MW East Anglia Two offshore wind farm starting in early 2027, after winning a post-installation seabed survey contract from Danish installation contractor Cadeler.

The Dutch geo-data specialist will run the work from a Cadeler installation vessel, deploying its FCV 600 work-class remotely operated vehicle to inspect each foundation after installation. The surveys carry three jobs at once: verifying installation quality, confirming the monopiles meet design requirements, and collecting seabed data to support long-term integrity monitoring of the foundations.

Who is building what at East Anglia Two?

ScottishPower Renewables, part of Spanish energy group Iberdrola, is developing the project roughly 33 km off the Suffolk coast in the UK North Sea. Cadeler holds the transport and installation scope for both foundations and turbines under contracts valued at approximately €360m to €382m ($405m to $430m).

For this campaign Cadeler will deploy the A-class newbuild Wind Ace. The turbine fleet is expected to be 64 Siemens Gamesa machines rated at 15MW each. Commercial operation is slated for late 2028, which puts the survey window in early 2027 squarely inside the critical installation phase.

The Fugro award is the second strand of collaboration between the two companies on major offshore wind campaigns.

What is Fugro already doing for Cadeler?

At Ørsted's Hornsea Three offshore wind farm, Fugro specialists aboard the installation vessel Wind Ally are providing positioning and construction services across 197 monopile foundations. That scope includes Fugro's InclinoCam technology, which monitors foundation tilt, inclination and vertical alignment during installation — real-time data that lets installation crews correct monopiles before they are finalised.

The East Anglia Two contract extends the same relationship from installation support into post-installation verification, a segment that grows in step with the monopile pipeline across the North Sea.

How does this fit Cadeler's UK build-out?

The Danish contractor is stacking UK offshore wind work. Beyond East Anglia Two and Hornsea Three, Cadeler recently secured a separate turbine installation contract at Dogger Bank C, where its third A-class newbuild, Wind Apex, will make its operational debut in the third quarter of 2027.

That timing matters. Wind Ace handles East Anglia Two foundations, Wind Apex enters service at Dogger Bank C, and Wind Ally is already working Hornsea Three — three newbuild vessels deployed across three of the UK's largest offshore wind projects within roughly two years.

For survey providers, each new installation vessel and foundation campaign generates follow-on inspection demand. Fugro's latest award shows how installation contractors are bundling positioning, monitoring and post-installation survey scopes with single geo-data partners rather than tendering them piecemeal.

With 960MW of capacity, 64 foundations and a late-2028 commissioning deadline, East Anglia Two's installation schedule leaves little slack. The early-2027 survey campaign will be the first hard, independent check that the foundations went in to spec — and a template for how verification work gets packaged as the UK's monopile pipeline keeps expanding.