BorWin Gamma Jacket Successfully Installed
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Petrofac’s team on the BorWin3 offshore grid connection project has achieved a key milestone, as the jacket has reached its final destination and been successfully installed in the North Sea, nearly 130 kilometres off the German coast.
Having been lifted and positioned in a water depth of approximately 40 metres, the jacket will now await the arrival of the topside for connection.
The substructure for the topside was designed as a six-legged main pile jacket weighing 5,600 tons with an additional four skirt piles; overall weight of the piles being 4,800 tons.
Petrofac, in consortium with Siemens, were awarded the BorWin3 offshore grid connection project contract in 2014 by TenneT. When operational, the platform will house a HVDC converter station that will convert the alternating current produced by the wind turbines to direct current before transmitting it onshore to the German national grid, from where it will supply nearly one million German households with clean electricity from wind power.