Bourbon Subsea Services has announced that it has been selected by Windplus to install three floating wind turbines 20 km off the coast of Viana do Castelo, north-west Portugual. With a unit capacity of 8.3 MW, these turbines are the most powerful in the floating offshore wind industry.
Bourbon's contract includes project management, engineering and the procurement of the complete mooring system (supplied by Vryhof). The mooring systems with three sets of three mooring lines will be pre-laid in the first phase. The wind turbines will be then towed to the offshore site and hooked up in a second phase, which will also include the installation and hook up of the inter-array electrical cables.
Bourbon will provide a variety of marine assets required for the different phases of the operations, including the anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS), tugs and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs).
Bourbon also installed the prototype turbine for this project in 2011. The floating foundations are designed by Principle Power.
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