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Installation gas pipeline, Takoradi

Late November 1998 Boskalis was awarded a subcontract for the installation of two marine pipelines to supply and discharge cooling seawater for the Takoradi thermal power plant that was under construction for the Volta River Authority, near the village of Aboadze approximately 20 kilometers north-east of Takoradi, Republic of Ghana.

The scope of work comprised the on and nearshore trench excavation, pipe handling and welding, on- and offshore pipeline installation, trench backfill and all related engineering and topographic and hydrographic surveys.

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Seabed preparatory works,
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Offshore wind farm, Sprogø

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