Global Tech 1 - Mobile Offshore Application Barge
Eigenaar:
Global Tech 1 Offshore Wind GmbH
Type:
Mobile Offshore Application Barge
Periode:
Start September 2010
First milestone for MOAB Transformer Substation Global Tech I
Keppel Verolme has achieved a milestone on 29 September 2010 with the strike-steel ceremony of a Mobile offshore Application Barge (MOAB) for Global Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Key personnel including the Management f Global Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH, consortium partner Alstom and Keppel Verolme's witness the steel cut for the construction of the Transformer Substation. Dr. Meerpohl, Managing Director of Global Tech I and Mr. Linssen, Managing Director Keppel Verolme gave the commence by switching on the cutting machine.
The 33/155 KV MOAB Transformer Substation is a design by Overdick GmbH & Co and is the first of its kind to build for the offshore wind industry.
The Transformer Substation will be deployed in the German Exclusive Economic Zone in the North Sea for the offshore wind park "Global Tech I" and shall host the transformers that convert the power supplied by the windmills for transportation ashore. The substation also acts as a base for service crews and includes electro-technical and related secondary equipment as well as a helideck and a living quarter for 32 persons.
When fully operational in 2013, the offshore wind park can deliver 400 MW through 80 5-MW wind turbines. The annual production of the park is calculated on 1.4 billion KW usable hours of electricity and will supply around 445.000 households with clean electricity.
It is Keppel Verolme's second MOAB newbuild. The first MOAB is an unmanned gas compression platform for Oil Company Perenco UK. This self-erecting platform, also known as the Trent Annex, under hull number 972 is delivered in 2005. In nearly 50 meters deepwater, the platform serve the production platform in the British Trent field.
