Ørsted Selects GeoSea for Borssele 1 & 2 Foundation and Turbine Transport and Installation
GeoSea, DEME’s specialist in complex offshore marine engineering projects, has been awarded a contract for the transportation and installation of 94 foundations at Ørsted’s Borssele 1 & 2 offshore windfarm in the Netherlands. Additionally, GeoSea secured the contract for the transport and installation of 94 turbines at the windfarm.
Borssele 1 & 2 is located 23km from the Dutch coast and will have a total capacity of 752MW. GeoSea will be responsible for the full scope of the Borssele 1 & 2 foundation installation and scour supply and installation. In this project, GeoSea will transport and install the 94 wind turbine foundation structures including the supply, transport and installation of scour protection on each location.
The foundation type for the 94 wind turbines will be a monopile foundation with pre-installed scour protection, an anode cage and a bolted transition piece. Water depths range from 14 to 36m. Under a separate contract, A2SEA, the turbine installation experts within GeoSea will also provide installation vessel capacity to transport and install 94 Siemens Gamesa 8MW turbines at the Borssele 1 & 2 windfarm.
Jan Klaassen, Business Unit Manager Offshore Renewables at GeoSea says, “We are pleased that Ørsted has selected GeoSea for the largest offshore windfarm project in the Netherlands. The contract award demonstrates our leading position as a provider of state-of-the-art, integrated solutions for the offshore wind industry. We look forward to working with Ørsted and to leverage our joint expertise in order to successfully deliver this project.” Monopile and turbine installation is scheduled in 2020, deploying vessels from the GeoSea fleet.
GeoSea will be exhibiting at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (23-24 October, RAI Amsterdam) at booth 1.522.