Equinor and BP JV signs Seatrium for US offshore wind platforms
Singapore’s Seatrium, formerly known as Sembcorp Marine, has secured a new contract worth over S$500m ($377m) with Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and BP, to deliver two substations for offshore wind farm projects on the US East Coast.
The scope of the project involves the engineering, procurement, construction, offshore hook-up and commissioning of two platforms for the Empire Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farms located about 31 km south of Long Island, east of the Rockaways.
Once constructed, Empire Wind 1 and 2 will have a total installed capacity of more than 2 GW and will power more than 1m New York homes. Construction works on the 810 MW Empire Wind 1 platform and the 1,260 MW Empire Wind 2 platform are expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2023 and the second half of 2024, respectively, at Seatrium’s yards in Singapore and Indonesia.
Seatrium is also building a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) for Maersk Supply Service, which will be deployed at Empire Wind. The group also recently won contracts for three 2 GW high voltage direct current converter platforms for offshore wind farm projects in the Netherlands.
