Offshore staff
BRISTOL, UK – Flotation Energy has contracted Rovco to perform a geo-environmental survey at the location of the planned Cenos floating offshore wind farm, 200 km from Scotland’s northeast coast in the central UK North Sea.
The 1.4-GW development will cover a 333-sq-km area.
Rovco will deploy the Glomar Supporter DP2 survey vessel for the campaign. The vessel, which is on a long-term charter from Glomar, underwent refurbishment in 2021 and has been reconfigured to permanently carry a suite of survey sensors and equipment.
The full Cenos project scope will likely include subsea studies of the floating wind turbine generators, mooring line anchor locations, inter-array cables, fixed foundation substation areas and the portion of export cables that fall within these locations.
Rovco’s duties comprise acquisition of geophysical and benthic information to inform environmental impact assessment consents and the various processes from engineering to early FEED.
The geophysical program involves acquisition of a multi-beam echo sounder, side scan sonar, magnetometer, sub-bottom profiler, and multi-channel seismic data and associated analysis, processing, interpretation and reporting.
Flotation Energy is in a partnership with Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude (Eni) and investor HitecVision, for the Cenos project. Earlier this year, they jointly secured a lease under Crown Estate Scotland’s INTOG (Innovation and Targeted Oil & Gas) round.
08.09.2023
