EEW OSB Wraps Up Borssele TP Tests on Completion

EEW Offshore Structures (Britain) has carried out the final Test on Completion for Ørsted’s Borssele contract.

The Teesside-based company was tasked with manufacturing and delivering a total of 35 transition pieces for the 752MW Borssele 1 + 2 wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. ALE Heavy Lift is providing the transportation services which are currently ongoing.

The Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm will comprise 94 Siemens Gamesa 8MW turbines installed some 23 kilometres off the coast of Zeeland. The wind farm is scheduled for commissioning by the end of 2020.

Denmark’s Bladt Industries is in charge of manufacturing and delivering the remaining 59 transition pieces.

EEW SPC, the parent company of EEW OSB, will deliver 47 monopiles for the wind farm. Dutch offshore foundations specialist Sif Holding will produce the remaining 47 monopiles.

The monopiles, transition pieces, and anode cages built in the UK, Germany, and Denmark will be transported to  Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam, where they will be assembled and prepared for offshore construction.