Offshore staff
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Salamander, a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted and Subsea7, has selected MarineSpace, an ERM Group company, to lead the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the floating offshore wind project offshore northeast Scotland.
As part of the work, engineering consultants NIRAS has been contracted by Salamander to lead the habitats regulations appraisal, and Brown & May Marine Ltd. will provide commercial fisheries support.
The Salamander offshore wind project, located 35 km offshore Peterhead, will be a contributor in delivering the UK government’s target of 5 GW of operational floating offshore wind by 2030.
The project is designed to provide the Scottish supply chain with an early capacity development opportunity, enabling it to play a much greater role in subsequent large-scale floating offshore wind buildout, ERM said.
Salamander will deploy offshore wind technologies to support the cost reduction and learning journey needed for the commercial deployment of floating offshore wind, ERM said.
Salamander recently awarded the pre-FEED foundation design to Ocergy for its OCG-Wind foundation technology.
Salamander is intended to be progressed through the track of Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. The INTOG round will grant seabed leases through an auction process, which will be split into two pots—one for smaller scale innovation projects of less than 100 MW and one for larger projects linked to oil and gas infrastructure.
12.15.2022
