McDermott's involvement will bring the consortium comprehensive engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) experience in the onshore, offshore, subsea and storage markets, from concept to completion.

The AquaVentus consortium aims to develop 10 GW of generation capacity for green hydrogen from offshore wind turbines in the North Sea by 2035. The expectation is that the wind power generated will be used to produce up to 1 MMt of production capacity of green hydrogen, which will be used to decarbonize Heligoland and transported to land via pipeline.

The growing consortium consists of more than 70 companies, organizations and research institutions collaborating toward green hydrogen energy production in the North Sea.

"The German North Sea Offshore Wind sector will be instrumental to meeting the renewable energy demand for the Northern European industry and other markets," said Tareq Kawash, McDermott Senior VP, Europe, Middle East, Africa. "AquaVentus' network of members, collaborating across the supply chain, is the type of collaboration needed to make green hydrogen a commercially viable energy resource of the future."