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Foundations complete at Borkum Riffgrund

GERMANY: All 77 foundations are now in place at the Borkum Riffgrund offshore wind project in the German North Sea after GeoSea completed the installation work.

The Pacific Orca (in the background) completed the installation work
The Pacific Orca (in the background) completed the installation work

The work on the up-to-684-tonne monopile foundations included transport from the fabrication yard to the marshalling harbour, the piling work itself and the fitting of the 330-tonne transition pieces.

Dong Energy - the project developer -  supplied its Pacific Orca vessel to be used by GeoSea during the installation work.

Dutch offshore contractor Tideway has now taken over from GeoSea to carry out scour-protection work on the foundations before the start of turbine installation later this year.

The 277MW project will be made up of 77 Siemens SWT-3.6-120 turbines. The machines are expected to be in place in 2015, with grid connection due later that year.

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