Heerema Fabrication Group has won a contract from Petrofac for the procurement and construction of the jacket and piles for the BorWin3 HVDC link for offshore wind farms in the German North Sea.
Petrofac, in a consortium with Siemens, has the full responsibility for the construction and offshore installation of the BorWin3 platform for TenneT.
Petrofac will do the engineering , while Heerema from its Vlissingen facilities will undertake the fabrication of the HVDC substation jacket and piles.
Heerema Marine Contractors will transport and install the jacket in the North Sea at a water depth of up to 40 metres and approximately 100 kilometres off the German coast.
Fabrication will start in the third quarter of 2016 and the sail away is scheduled for March 2018.
Image: BorWin 2 platform (TenneT)
