Jan De Nul cable laying vessel Willem de Vlamingh has completed installation of the three export cables at the 120MW Formosa 1 phase two offshore wind farm in Taiwan.
The company has a engineering procurement construction and installation contract for overall balance of plant at the project.
It said the cables were installed within one week.
“Thanks to its shallow draft design, the Willem de Vlamingh was able to position in water depths of not more than seven metres, thus limiting the shore pull distance to around 1750 metres,” Jan De Nul said.
It added that at the beach landing, the cables were pulled through three HDD ducts into the transition joint bays.
Willem de Vlamingh is also acting as trenching support vessel for the jet-trenching of both the export and array cables.
Formosa 1 phase two is being developed by a partnership of Orsted (35%), JERA (32.5%), Macquarie Capital (25%) and Swancor Holding (7.5%).
The project will feature 20 Siemens Gamesa 154-6MW turbines and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.