Smulders has rolled out of the assembly hall the substation for Northland Power’s 269MW Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm for further outfitting.
The fabricator, acting on behalf of the Iemants-Eiffage joint venture, reached the milestone some 10 months after starting final assembly work in January at the Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen yard.
Offshore installation is planned in the first half of 2019 on top of a 60-metre-high jacket foundation, also being built by Smulders.
The Iemants-Eiffage JV was selected by Van Oord for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract for the substation platform and jacket.
Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen together with DNSN is managing and supporting the job and is also providing Iemants-Eiffage with skilled workers for welding and painting works, Smulders said.
Meanwhile, Van Oord has contracted Northern HeliCopter NHC to provide transport services to support construction work on Deutsche Bucht.
“The contract runs until the end of the project period”, NHC said.
NHC last month expanded its fleet with another EC 155 B1 helicopter to now six machines.
Deutsche Bucht will feature 33 MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbines installed on 31 monopile foundations and two mono bucket foundations.
Commissioning of the wind farm located some 95km north-west of Borkum island is expected in second half of 2019.
Source:renews
