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Oord is the main engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, under a EUR 1.3 billion contract which helped tip

Van Oord’s turnover over EUR 2 billion for the frst time. The project helped underpin investment in both acquisitions – including

Ballast Nedam Ofshore earlier this year – and two new vessels; the ofshore Aeolus installation vessel, delivered in 2014, and the cable layer , launched at Dutch

Nexus group Damen Shipyards’ facility in Galati,

Romania, last year and now working on

Gemini.

Other Dutch contractors involved include

SIF, which is supplying the monopiles,

Smulders Projects, which is producing the transition pieces, and VBMS, a joint venture between VolkerWessels and Boskalis, which is assisting Van Oord with the export cable installation.

Subsea: wind turbines are mounted on piles, with a jacket-mounted transformer.

Oceanteam Shipping subsidiary

RentOcean is supplying Van Oord with a 3000-tonne demountable onshore turn- with most of the manufacturing completed and it is hoped all 150 will be installed by table system and accompanying equipment or nearly complete, including transition year’s end.

for long term cable storage, and the FICG Gemini is 60% owned by Canadian renew- pieces and turbines. The export cables (Fabricom, Iemants and CG) consortium is able company Northland Power, 10% by Van were already nearly all installed and mono- manufacturing the onshore and ofshore Oord holding, 20% by Siemens and 10% pile installation started 1 July, once envi- transformer stations. by renewable energy and waste processing ronmental restrictions were lifted. From company HVC.

By late July, the project was on track, 1-23 July, some 25 piles had been installed, • 2015

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