‘Oleg Strashnov’ Installs Meerwind Topside

Seaway Heavy Lifting’s crane vessel “Oleg Strashnov” has completed the installation of the 3,300 mT transformer topside of the WindMW Meerwind project.

The installation took place at a water depth of 23 meters in the German Bight on 3rd April.

With the installation of the topside the wind farm is completed. The Meerwind offshore wind farm has a capacity of 288 MW and consists of 80 wind turbines of 3.6 MW each.

Seaway Heavy Lifting performed the Transport & Installation of transition pieces, the transformer topside as well as the jacket for WindMW.

The Meerwind project started for Seaway Heavy Lifting in September 2011 and the offshore installation part of the transition pieces and the jacket took place in the second quarter of 2013.

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Seaway Heavy Lifting, April 11, 2014