Oilfield to windfarm
Oilfield services company Petrofac has won a €40m contract from Siemens Energy to provide support during the commissioning phase of two offshore wind converter station platforms in the German North Sea.
It is the first contract win since Petrofac established Petrofac Deutschland GmbH in November 2012 to take advantage of the growing offshore wind market.
Petrofac will provide logistics management, platform support services and maintenance services during the commissioning and testing phase of the two High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore platforms.
The HelWin1 and BorWin2 platforms, which will have 576MW and 800MW capacity respectively, are currently under construction and will be situated near the islands of Helgoland (HelWin1) and Borkum (BorWin2). Each will connect several surrounding wind farms to the mainland, in total providing enough transmission capacity to supply about two million German households with clean wind power.
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