Fugro wins site investigation contracts for 10 GW Energy Island in Denmark

Fugro has been awarded by Ørsted and Glennmont to perform the preliminary geotechnical site investigation for the Energy Island and the adjacent offshore wind farm zone in Denmark. The resulting Geo-data will be used to prepare an integrated geological and geotechnical soil model on which wind farm developers will base future tenders. The island will be situated 80 km offshore in the North Sea and act as a hub connecting hundreds of surrounding wind turbines. 

The fieldwork will run from February to May 2022 and up to four geotechnical vessels will work on the project. These operations will include the use of Fugro’s SEACALF Mk V Deepdrive system for seabed cone penetration tests (CPTs), as well as the WISON Mk V Ecodrive for the downhole testing. Following the fieldwork, an extensive laboratory testing program will be delivered by various laboratories, including Fugro’s newly certified and accredited laboratory in Belgium.

This Energy Island contract follows on from the geophysical and unexploded ordnance (UXO) magnetometry survey awarded to Fugro earlier this year and the floating wind lidar measurement campaign that started in October.