Lasse Petterson, President and Chief Executive Officer at Great Lakes, commented, “The consortium of Great Lakes with Van Oord combines the experience of Van Oord, the global market leader in subsea rock installation, with Great Lakes, the only U.S.

Van Oord will mobilize the flexible fallpipe vessel, Stornes, to install rock prior to the installation of the monopile foundations. Great Lakes will use the first Jones Act compliant subsea rock installation vessel, currently under construction at the Philly Shipyard in the U.S., to install rocks to protect and stabilize monopile foundations, electrical substructures, and export cables, starting with Empire Wind I in the mid-2020s and continuing with Empire Wind II. Empire Wind I and II are expected to provide over 2 Gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy to the State of New York. HOUSTON, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation ('Great Lakes' or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States, announced today that Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor (NYSE: EQNR) and bp (NYSE: bp), have chosen Great Lakes in consortium with Van Oord to perform the subsea rock installation work for the Empire Wind I and II wind farms in the East Coast of the United States. First offshore wind rock installation contract awarded to a U.S. Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel, Stornes.

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