The Netherlands – Fugro has been given two contracts to do geotechnical research for the development of the offshore wind zones in the Dutch IJmuiden Ver Site V-VI, Nederwiek (zuid) Site I, and Hollandse Kust (west) Site VIII.
This is the greatest campaign launched by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) to date, and it is part of the Dutch Government’s rapid development in accordance with the Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2030. When completed, the wind farms will have a total installed capacity of around 4.7 GW.
Wind farm developers will use the comprehensive Geo-data as input for preliminary engineering design studies and future tenders, and it will also be available for power cable design, archaeology, and marine biological investigations.
Fieldwork
Fugro’s fleet of specialist geotechnical vessels will begin the surveys in March 2023 and continue through the fourth quarter of 2023; subsequent processing, laboratory testing, and reporting of results will take well into 2024.
The fieldwork will include seabed and subsurface investigations employing cutting-edge techniques and inventions, such as Fugro’s SEACALF Mk V DeepDrive system for seabed cone penetration tests and WISON Mk V Ecodrive. Fugro’s data distribution technology will give clients with secure and simple access. Increased laboratory capacity onboard the vessels will allow for faster results processing. Following that, rigorous laboratory testing will take place in Fugro’s freshly expanded laboratories in the United Kingdom and Belgium.
