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EEW OSB begins Borssele work

By: Tom Russell 09/01/2019 4C Offshore

Foundations General Windfarms

EEW Offshore Structures (Britain) Ltd (EEW OSB), part of the EEW Group, has started the construction of transition pieces for the Borssele 1&2 offshore wind farm.

EEW OSB's total scope covers the fabrication of 35 transition pieces which will be manufactured at its facility in Haverton Hill, County Durham. A cutting ceremony took place marking the beginning of the UK firms first offshore wind contract for a project outside of UK waters.

Bladt Industries is responsible for fabrication of the remaining 59 transition pieces for Borssele 1&2 for which work kicked off in November in Aalborg, Denmark.

Sif Group and EEW SPC, also part of the EEW Group, will produce 47 monopiles each (94 total). EEW SPC's subsidiary EW OSB has been commissioned to supply 35 transition pieces for the project.

GeoSea (part of DEME Group) has been awarded a contract for transportation and installation of the 94 foundations and turbines. The contract scope also includes scour protection supply and installation.

Other main contractors include A2SEA (a subsidiary of GeoSea) which will provide installation vessels to transport and install the 94 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 direct drive turbines with a 167m rotor.

Furthermore, Van Oord has been awarded the contract to transport, install and bury 167km inter array cables and will deploy its dedicated cable-laying vessel Nexus and trencher Dig-It to install and bury the cables to a depth of 2m.

Ørsted won the rights to Borssele 1&2 in July 2016 with an average bid strike price, excluding transmission costs, of 72.70 EUR/MWh for the first 15 years of the project's operation. The project will have a capacity of 752MW and is located 23km off the coast of Zeeland (Westkappele). It is expected to provide power to around 500,000 households once completed; currently scheduled for 2020.

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