Contract signed in Dubai to build converter platform
Signing ceremony
Drydocks World’s contract involves the fabrication, commissioning and load out of the BorWin3 platform, which will transmit electricity from the connected offshore wind farms to the mainland of Germany. Scheduled to go online in 2019, the platform will be installed nearly 100 kilometres off the German coast in the North Sea at a water depth of approximately 40m. The Dutch-German electricity transmission system operator TenneT ordered the HVDC link BorWin3 from a consortium comprising Petrofac and Siemens. The link will transmit approximately 900 MW of wind power, which is roughly equal to the annual electricity consumption of one million German households. Siemens will supply the complete HVDC converter technology for efficient direct-current transmission. Drydocks World has completed several other environmentally sustainable projects such as the Polarcus seismic vessels, modular capture vessels and a subsea storage tank for Premier Oil.
