PGE Baltica, a PGE Group company, has signed an agreement with a consortium of companies: Geofizyka Toruń S.A., Przedsiębiorstwo Geologiczne GEOPROJEKT Szczecin sp. z o.o. and “PROJMORS” Biuro Projektów Budownictwa Morskiego sp. z o.o. for the execution of geological, including geotechnical and geophysical surveys and the resulting documentation for the land-sea drilling for the OWF Baltica 1.
Our journalist were the first to inform about the awarded tender. Geological reconnaissance of the area is an essential element of the investment process related to the construction of offshore wind farms. Geotechnical and geophysical surveys are conducted to thoroughly investigate the ground for the future investment. As a result of the investigations, documentation will be prepared, which is necessary to produce a soil model necessary for the proper design of the land-sea cable crossing for the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm.
The scope of work includes geological surveys, including geotechnical and geophysical surveys. In terms of onshore surveys, the contract includes, among others: CPTU soundings, piezometric surveys, magnetometric surveys, seismic refraction tomography, electrical resistivity tomography and GPR surveys. On the other hand, as far as offshore surveys are concerned, it is planned to carry out, among other things, CPTU sounding, reflection seismic, bathymetric surveys and sediment profilometer (SBP) surveys. In addition, laboratory testing of soil and water samples taken during drilling is planned. The surveys will commence in the second quarter of this year.
OWF Baltica 1
The Baltica 1 offshore wind farm project, with a capacity of approximately 0.9 GW, is one of three projects currently being developed by the PGE Group in the Baltic Sea, about 80 km from the shoreline, approximately at the level of the town of Leba in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Among other things, the project already has a location permit and connection agreement in place, and the first full year of wind, sea current and wave surveys behind it.
PGE Baltica has this year commenced subsoil investigations for the onshore part of the project and signed a contract for preliminary geotechnical studies of the seabed. The Baltica 1 offshore wind farm project will be commissioned after 2030.
