Epci Contract Awarded

Boskalis was awarded an EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract by Vattenfall for the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, also known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), located approximately 3 kilometers off the coast of Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Under this contract, Boskalis was responsible for delivering eleven suction bucket jacket foundations, associated scour protection, 66 kV inter-array and export cables, and the installation of the wind turbine generators. The project scope covered the key structural and electrical elements required to build out the 93.2 MW wind farm, which consists of eleven turbines and, at the time, featured the world’s most powerful wind turbine exporting power through 66 kV cables supported on innovative suction bucket jacket foundations. The contract is reported as an EPCI contract with a stated execution period of 2016–2018, indicating it was fully awarded and implemented within that timeframe. The project information highlights that Boskalis deployed a range of specialist offshore vessels and equipment, including the Rockpiper subsea rock installation vessel, the Ndeavor construction support vessel, the Ndurance cable-laying vessel, and the Asian Hercules III floating sheerleg, to fulfil its contractual obligations. These assets enabled Boskalis to carry out foundation installation, scour protection works, and cable laying, as well as to support turbine installation activities. The combination of novel suction bucket jacket foundations and 66 kV export infrastructure positions the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm as a significant deployment of cutting-edge offshore wind technology, demonstrating the client Vattenfall’s and contractor Boskalis’s roles in advancing large-scale commercial application of these innovations under the EPCI framework.