Under the contract, Jan De Nul will use its recently acquired offshore jack-up heavy lift vessel, Vidar, to undertake work related to installation of 51 monopile foundations for 50 wind turbines and the offshore high voltage substation.
Jan De Nul Offshore Wind group manager Peter De Pooter said: "Jan De Nul Group will execute the design, fabrication and installation of the 50 wind energy generators, inclusive foundation for the OHVS."
The company will also be responsible for the supply and installation of scour protection and the installation of 50 wind turbine generators.
Belwind 2 offshore wind farm is planned to be developed next to the Belwind wind power plant, around the Bligh Bank sand bank in the Belgian North Sea.
Located 46km off the coast at Zeebrugge, the Belwind 2 offshore wind farm will feature 50 Vestas-built wind turbines, each with a capacity of 3.3MW.
The power plant, which will be connected to the Belgian power grid through an export cable installed earlier by Jan De Nul in 2013, is designed to generate electricity to power 197,000 homes.
Pooter added: "The steel foundations will be fabricated in Germany and Vietnam under strict quality control by our specialist inspectors.
"The newly acquired Vidar will install the 51 foundations working from the marshalling harbor in Ostend and the fall pipe vessel Simon Stevin will place scour protection on the sea bed around the piles.
"Finally the Vidar will transport the turbines and blades from Denmark to install them up to 100 m high onto the foundations."
Work under the contract is scheduled to commence in April 2016 and is planned to be completed in 2017.
Featuring 55 Vestas V90 wind turbines, the Belwind 1 wind farm entered service in December 2010.
Image: officials of Jan De Nul Group Nobelwind. Photo: courtesy of Jan De Nul Group.
