McDermott International has been awarded its largest ever renewable energy contract from TenneT for the BorWin6 980MW high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) project.
Through a consortium with Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute Co Ltd and C-EPRI Electric Power Engineering Co Ltd (GEIRI/C-EPRI), McDermott will provide engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) services.
The project is for the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of an HVDC offshore converter platform, located 118 miles (190km) offshore Germany on the Platform North Sea Cluster 7 in a water depth up to 131 feet. Electricity generated from offshore wind farms will be converted into direct current and transported to an onshore converter station located 28 miles onshore near Büttel, Germany.
On the HVDC offshore platform, McDermott’s scope includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication, transport and installation and commissioning of the topside module and jacket. On the onshore converter station, McDermott’s scope includes the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning.
The engineering and project management will be executed from McDermott’s HVDC centre of excellence in The Hague with support from its Chennai and Gurgaon offices. The fabrication of the topside is planned to be executed by the Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan (QMW) fabrication facility in Qingdao, China, and the jacket from McDermott’s Batam fabrication yard in Indonesia.
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