Next Geosolutions

NextGeo was contracted by Dutch TSO TenneT to deliver pre-installation offshore survey services for the Hollandse Kust West Beta (HKWb) 700 MW offshore grid connection in the Dutch North Sea. The scope formed part of TenneT's broader survey programme covering several upcoming grid corridors, with NextGeo carrying out unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey work alongside geophysical and geotechnical investigations along the planned export cable routes from the offshore beta platform area to landfall. In support of the same TenneT scope, NextGeo selected PanGeo Subsea to deliver detailed sub-bottom imaging around the Baloeran wreck close to the planned cable routes (see separate PanGeo Subsea role). According to NextGeo's later wrap-up disclosure (May 2022), the broader campaign across HKW Beta and other Dutch routes acquired more than 37,000 hectares of survey data using geophysical and geotechnical techniques and a fleet of six offshore vessels, six nearshore vessels and three tidal vessels. This grid-corridor survey scope is distinct from the Hollandse Kust West VII (OranjeWind) wind farm's own pre-construction surveys; NextGeo's contract was with TenneT for the TSO-owned grid connection.