Rovco awarded survey job for 1.4-GW floating wind project off Scotland

UK marine surveyor Rovco said on Wednesday that it has won a contract to carry out a geo-environmental survey for the proposed 1.4-GW Cenos floating wind farm project in Scottish waters.

The contract was awarded by Scotland’s Flotation Energy, one half of the Cenos partnership alongside Norwegian offshore wind company Vargronn. Vargronn is a joint venture between Norwegian energy investor HitecVision and Plenitude, the renewables arm of Italian oil-and-gas major Eni SpA (BIT:ENI).

Rovco said that it will deploy a multi-purpose DP2 survey vessel, the Glomar Supporter, for the assignment. The scope of work will involve the acquisition of geophysical and benthic information to provide detailed data to inform environmental impact assessment (EIA) consents and the engineering processes from engineering to early front-end engineering and design (FEED) study.

“Our dedicated site characterisation division was launched specifically to provide the full range of survey solutions to offshore wind projects such as Cenos, in order to take it from pre-construction to first energy as swiftly, efficiently, and cost effectively as possible,” said Craig Davis, Director of Site Characterisation for Rovco.

“The successful delivery of our survey campaign with Rovco enables us to maintain our fast-track delivery schedule for Cenos, a project that will decarbonise North Sea oil and gas assets and remove over 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year, helping to support Scotland towards its 2045 Net Zero targets,” added Dan Wright, Supply Chain Manager at Flotation Energy.

The Cenos floating wind project was selected in Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil & Gas (INTOG) leasing process earlier this year. The wind farm is planned to be located some 200 kilometres (124 miles) off the northeast coast of Scotland in the Central North Sea.

Once in operation, Cenos will supply renewable power to oil and gas platforms, while also delivering 5.5 TWh annually to the grid.

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