Following the load-out on May 3, the topside for the Hollandse Kust (west Beta) transformer platform will depart the port of Hoboken near Antwerp on May 17.
It will be transported on a floating pontoon, which will sail via the Scheldt and Western Scheldt waterways toward the North Sea, past Vlissingen to the offshore location that is 50 km from the coast of Egmond an Zee.
Once Heerema Marine Contractors’ Sleipnir vessel has completed a current program in UK waters, it will sail to North Holland to install the +3,500-metric-ton topside on the jacket, which was set down on the seafloor last May.
Upon arrival, Sleipnir’s crane will lift the 45-m-long, 20-m-wide, 25-m-tall structure from the floating pontoon for the installation, followed by welding together of the topside and jacket. The 700-MW platform, the third constructed for TenneT by the Equans/Smulders consortium, will later be connected via undersea cables to the Dutch grid.
