When Building an Offshore Wind Farm, Experience Counts

Renewable Energy World: It was one-part chance and ten-parts experience that enabled Louisiana-based oil and gas liftboat operator Montco Offshore to get the contract to help install the turbines, blades and towers on the recently completed 30-MW Block Island Wind Farm. Chief Technology Officer Joe Orgeron, who’s family founded the company 48 years ago to serve the oil and gas industry, explained that he got involved in the project all the way back in 2009 when Deepwater was looking for help getting core samples from the bottom of the ocean.

“I just so happened to have men with one of my liftboats in Atlantic City in the summer of 2009,” he said.

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