Seatrium Gets Offshore Wind EPC Contract Worth $377 million

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Singapore based engineering solutions provider Seatrium Limited, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp Marine Offshore Platforms, has secured a contract worth more than S$500 million (USD 377 Million) for two offshore wind farm substations from Empire Offshore Wind.

The Empire wind project is a joint venture between Equinor and bp off the United States’ Long Island.

Seatrium said that this contract award follows the successful completion of the Front-End Engineering and Design contract which was secured by it in 2022. The scope of the project involves the engineering, procurement, construction, offshore hook-up and commissioning of two Offshore Substation (OSS) Platforms for the Empire Wind 1 and 2 Offshore Wind Farms. These wind farms are located about 20 miles south of Long Island.

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As per Seatrium officials statement, the Empire Wind 1 and 2 OSS Platforms will be operated by Equinor post completion.

Construction works on the 810MW Empire Wind 1 Platform and the 1,260MW Empire Wind 2 Platform are expected to commence in fourth quarter of 2023 and second half 2024 respectively at Singapore and Indonesia yards of Seatrium.

Seatrium is also constructing a Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV) for deployment at the Empire Wind Farms based on a breakthrough design jointly developed with the customer Maersk Supply Service.

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Rising Status Of Seatrium

Over the years, Seatrium has delivered several offshore wind farm solutions, including a WTIV Blue Tern in 2012, an offshore substation platform in 2016 for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in the UK North Sea, two offshore wind farm substations in 2021 for the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a Offshore Wind Farms in Taiwan. It has also delivered 15 wind turbine jacket foundations for the Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm for the Taiwan market and the offshore substation platform and reactive compensation station platform for the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm in the UK North Sea in 2022.

The Group is currently working on three 2GW HVDC (high voltage direct current) offshore converter platform projects for offshore projects in the Netherlands that was secured about a month ago. Seatrium is also building a 1.4GW HVDC offshore converter platform for the Sofia Offshore Wind Farm for UK North Sea operations. Its also building two 440MW wind farm substation projects for the U.S. market and a 600MW offshore wind farm offshore substation platform in Taiwan.