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Offshore Wind: The Role of Geoscience in Underpinning a Strong Project Foundation

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Offshore Wind: The Role of Geoscience in Underpinning a Strong Project Foundation

When
4 Oct 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
AAPG Zoom

The take up of offshore wind as a source for electricity is accelerating globally across a variety of geologic settings. The scope and scale of these projects is enormous and foundation engineering of these projects can account for greater than 35% of gross project costs. . Whereas a major offshore oil and gas development might require the installation of four or five drill centers - be they from fixed platforms or subsea manifolds - and associated in-field and export pipelines and umbilicals, an offshore wind farm may require the installation of over a hundred turbines together with offshore substations, offshore convertor stations, intra array cables and export cables to shore. To be successful, therefore, projects require front end loading of geoscience input to understand overall setting, variability and implication to foundation concepts, followed, post license award, by intensive geophysical activity to accurately map site variability to develop a shallow geologic model, calibration by borehole ahead of final foundation choice.

Presenters: Andrew Hill

https://aapg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpcuiopzojGtIIzh-uA-U2SvtBC5SgRQZY