Engineering outfit Kongstein will carry on supporting Siemens Gamesa on the 112MW Abatross offshore wind project off the German coast.
In the extended scope, as commissioning management provider Kongstein will oversee the commissioning of the installed offshore substation as well as marine logistics management for the offshore commissioning phase of Albatross.
The project is being built 105km north of Borkum in the German North Sea.
Kongstein had been employed by Siemens Gamesa to provide the transport and installation management related work for the offshore substation campaign.
The module’s topside was installed on the evening of 26 March 2019.
The heavy lift jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey loaded the topside in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, transported it to site and then lifted the topside onto the foundation.
The jack-up vessel Seafox2 was mobilised and established alongside the substation to assist as offshore accommodation and logistics hub during the commissioning phase.
The Heerema-built platform will take power from the 16 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at Albatross as well as from EnBW’s 609MW Hohe See offshore wind farm.
Power from the transformer module will feed into grid operator Tennet’s 900MW Borwin 3 hub to be fed back to shore.