Offshore installment solutions firm DEME Offshore has actually won a “substantial” agreement for the transport as well as installment of the inter-array cords for the Empire Wind 1 as well as 2 overseas wind ranches being created in the united state by Empire Offshore Wind, a joint endeavor in between Equinor as well as BP.
For DEME, a significant agreement stands for a worth of EUR 150– 300 million.
Under the agreement, DEME Offshore United States will certainly be accountable for the transportation as well as installment of the inter-array cords, which have a complete size of over 350 kilometres (217 miles).
The installment jobs will certainly be carried out by a wire installment vessel from the DEME fleet in 2 projects. Currently the firm runs the cord installment vessel ‘Living Stone’ as well as this will certainly be signed up with by a 2nd DP3 cord installment vessel ‘Viking Neptun’ in Q1 2023.
Empire Wind 1 as well as 2 are being created by a 50-50 collaboration in between Equinor as well as BP.
Equinor will certainly supervise of running the tasks throughout the growth, building and construction, as well as procedure phases. Once built, Empire Wind 1 as well as 2 will certainly have a complete set up capability of greater than 2 GW as well as perseverance greater than 1 million New York homes.
