View of Fugro ship off Gloucester MA from Salt Island Road May 11, 2019, closer and slower.
“As the largest global supplier of marine geotechnical site investigation services, Fugro conducts tailored investigations in all offshore regions of the world.”
Who are those guys? View of Fugro ship changes depending on vantage and as it moves back and forth. View of ship from Good Harbor Beach.
Until I hear back, queue GMG poll for best guesses – as to what they are doing?
Cape Wind engaged Fugro for survey work as part of pre-construction for offshore utility-scale wind farm. Fugro may have been engaged with phases of projects closer to home, like the LNG “Neptune” buoy port that was developed in 2010 by ENGIE about 10 miles off shore where LNG vessels could moor and discharge natural gas. (Another LNG one, the Northeast gateway, is 18 miles out from Boston.)
Wind projects in Mass (Wikipedia)
In September 2016, Baker’s administration announced that the offshore wind companies Deepwater Wind, DONG Energy, and OffshoreMW agreed to use the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal built during the Patrick administration as a staging area for their projects.[22] In June 2017, Massachusetts utilities issued the first RFP under the energy diversification law signed by Baker in August 2016,[23] and the following month, five major bids were submitted.[24]
In May 2018, Baker’s administration selected Vineyard Wind to construct an 800-megawatt offshore wind farm off the southern coast of Martha’s Vineyard,[25] and the following October, Vineyard Wind announced that it had signed an 18-month lease to also conduct their staging operations at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal.[26] In December 2018, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced the sale of three wind lease plots of 390,000 acres of ocean south of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard to Equinor Wind, Mayflower Wind Energy, and Vineyard Wind for a national record of $405 million that the agency estimated could generate as much as 4,100 megawatts of wind power.[27]
from Fugro website
Good Morning Gloucester 