Twenty-one of the awards are located in the North Sea, ten in the Norwegian Sea, and four in the Barents Sea, 17 of the licences with Equinor as an operator.
Van Oord’s subsea rock installation vessels Nordnes and Bravenes have been deployed to install scour protection that has been designed to optimise marine biodiversity.
The Netherlands will be the first country in the world to get a Fish Migration River. This is a unique artificial tidal system at Kornwerderzand, which is being built right through the Afsluitdijk.