The so-called suction-bucket jacket, fabricated at Bladt Industries' Aalborg yard, was lowered into place by Swire Blue Ocean's Pacific Orca jack-up in 24-metres of water off the island of Borkum, and is now ready to be topped out with an upscaled Siemens SWT-4.0-130 turbine as part of a technology demonstration project at the 312MW wind farm.
"We've now installed the very first suction-bucket jacket in the offshore wind industry," said Dong Energy vice-president Tove Feld."
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