GeoSea’s jack-up Innovation has arrived at Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in the German North Sea to install the first suction bucket jacket foundations.
Innovation in Cuxhaven. Image source: Rhenus Offshore Logistics
Innovation loaded the first batch of suction bucket foundations at the Offshore Terminal in Cuxhaven last week. Rhenus Offshore Logistics is in charge of all agency arrangements on the project.
The 450MW wind farm will comprise 56 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines installed on 36 monopile foundations, the first of which was installed at the site some 38km off the island of Borkum in early March, and 20 suction bucket jackets.
Poland’s ST3 Offshore is in charge of producing and assembling 20 jacket foundations for the wind farm, with the Belfast-based Harland and Wolff (H&W) supplying the suction buckets. The foundations are being fitted with the suction buckets in Cuxhaven.
Borkum Riffgrund 2 is scheduled for commissioning in 2019.