MPI Vessel to Work on Vattenfall Project

MPI is pleased to announce that its services in general and its vessel MPI Adventure in specific will be employed on the Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm project. The company will perform the offshore transport and installation of all 72 Siemens 4-MW wind turbines, together with a wide range of related services.

Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (Munich City Utilities, SWM) have this week confirmed their commitment to this project, being their second joint offshore wind farm off the German North Sea coast.

Sandbank is expected to annually generate 1.4 TWh of renewable electricity, equivalent to the consumption of about 400,000 households. The new wind farm will be built 110 km off the German coast. MPI’s involvement in respect of the wind-turbine installation on the Sandbank project is scheduled to commence at the end of the summer of 2016.

"The Sandbank project is further testament to Vattenfall's strategy of consistently focusing our growth efforts on the expansion of renewable energy," says Gunnar Groebler, Head of the Renewables Business Unit for Vattenfall's Continental/UK region. "We know how to work offshore and we see it as a significant building block in the success of the energy transition (Energiewende) in Germany."

MPI is therefore pleased to be part of this latest accomplishment by Vattenfall in the form of the Sandbank project. Also for MPI, this opportunity is a significant milestone, as it is the first contract that shows MPI is able to successfully offer a wide range of services (vessel, project management, engineering, etc...) under one generic contract.

MPI would like to thank the Sandbank OWF project team for their open and constructive attitude in working towards this positive outcome. MPI is now looking forward to starting the preliminary work on the project and is convinced these preparations will result in a smooth and fruitful execution of the effective offshore turbine installation works in 2016. This will benefit all parties involved as well as the German offshore wind industry in general.

For more information regarding offshore installation, onshore logistics and/or the designing and engineering activities of MPI, check our website (www.mpi-offshore.com).