Cooperation between the offshore wind industry and the oil/gas industry
February 8 2011Offshore Wind Construction and Installation 2011
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Morten HolmagerOffshore Center Danmark
• Background
• Introduction
Agenda
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• Introduction
• Supply Chain Recommendations
• Technology Recommendations
• Personnel and Training
• Synergies
• Conclusions
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Background
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Background
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Offshore Center Danmark
Oil and Gas Offshore Wind
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• Membership based business support organization
• Official national competence and innovation center for the Danish offshore industry
Wave EnergyOffshore Maritime
• Founded 2003
• 220 members
POWER clusterDeveloping a cluster for Pushing Offshore Wind Energy Regions
Objective: To strengthen the offshore wind industry in the North Sea
region through transnational cooperation
Focus:
• Social Acceptance
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• Social Acceptance
• Business
• Skills
Timeframe:
2008 - 2011
www.power-cluster.net
POWER clusterExamples of activities
Traveling boat exhibition22,000 visitors
MappergyVisual business database
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www.OWIB.dk640 B2B meetings resulting in 2,200 contacts
Study of offshore synergies240 pages by Natural Power
Introduction
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Two different industries
Oil industry stereotype Wind industry stereotype
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Why offshore wind?
Ensuring security of energy supplies Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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Offshore wind must be competitive
• Offshore wind farms are only one of many possible methods of achieving policy objectives.
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• Offshore wind electricity is very expensive and rely on large subsidies
The offshore oil/gas industry can help
• Many of the engineering and operational principles which the offshore wind industry takes for granted have been developed in the oil and gas industry.
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• There are key areas for the both offshore industries to collaborate.
Threat: Major installation phase of offshore wind estimated to take place 2015-2020.Decommissioning of North Sea oil/gas platforms and a further round of optimizing production from oil and gas reserves estimated to take place 2015-2020.
Supply Chain Recommendations
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Supply Chain Recommendations
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Port, quays and hard standing
There is an urgent and critical requirement a minimum of six ports and sheltered harbours with:
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• Large areas of hard standing
Port of Esbjerg with planned expansion
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• Large areas of hard standing
• Deepwater quays
• Land on which to build factories
Vessels
• Installation of foundations and turbines: Sufficient vessels either in service or under construction in water depths of 45m and a few in 60m
• Supply vessels and tugs:
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• Supply vessels and tugs: Oversupply
• Installations of cables:Shortfall
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However, these vessels could also
service the oil and gas industry.
Cable and Turbine Supply
• Limited manufacturing capacity for offshore electrical cables (particiulary high voltage DC)
Worldwide shortage of copper
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• Shortage of wind turbines designed specifically for use offshore.
• Very few manufacturing facilities close to suitable ports and harbours.
Large Turbine supply (>5MW)
Concerns about the supply of:
• Large casting and forgings (gears and bearings)
• Carbon fibre (large blades)
• Rare earth minerals (high power magnets used in generators)
• Copper (windings in transformers, generators and cables)
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Competition from:
• Onshore wind
• Serving home markets first
– i.e. China, India and the USA
• Copper (windings in transformers, generators and cables)
• High power semiconductors (power conditioning and control)
Technology Recommendations
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Technology Recommendations
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Turbine design
• Develop dedicated marine offshore turbines.
– Free of the constraints imposed on onshore
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– Free of the constraints imposed on onshore turbines.
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Generator design
• Promote the design of new generator designs:
– Direct drive permanent magnet DC generators
– Direct drive induction DC generators
– Single stage gearboxes with DC generators
– Two stage gearboxes and permanent magnet DC
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– Two stage gearboxes and permanent magnet DC generators
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Results:
– High efficiency,
– High reliability,
– Low maintenance,
– Light weight.
Tower design
• Promote the design of cheaper and more mechanically efficient tower designs which are integrated with the turbine foundation to minimize discontinuities and associated fatigue problems.
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• A simple lattice structure from seabed to nacelle could prove more efficient and have fewer stress concentrations.
Blades
Promote improvements in:
• Construction techniques(accurate fibre placement)
• Automation of production processes
• Use of new polymers and fibres
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• Use of new polymers and fibres
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LM Wind Power A/S
Construction and Installation
• Disused oil and gas construction yards could be brought back into service
• Existing yards could be modified and expanded for mass production
• Oil and gas offshore construction vessels and
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construction vessels and equipment could be redeployed into the wind industry especially on the deeper water sites resources.
Aker Verdal
Access and egress
• Establishing a common database of accidents and near misses which may occur to allow both industries to learn and improve methods of access and egress.
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• Promote the development of safe, all weather, access and egress.
• Eliminate the “leap of faith“.
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• Eliminate the “leap of faith“.
Personnel and Training
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Personnel and Training
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Personnel and Training
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Source: EWEA
• Promote education and training
• Developing specialist post graduate courses, dedicated to offshore wind energy.
• Encouraging vocational training tailored to the offshore industry
Synergies
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Two way synergy
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Two way synergy
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Two way synergy
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Source: StatoilHydro
Two way synergy
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Competition-Synergy MapCompetition
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Manning
Construction
VesselsOnshore OPEX
Cable lay
Vessels
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Synergy
Competition
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VesselsSupply chain
Training &
competence
Finance
SafetyGovernance Eng & Tech
Standards
Supply
Vessels
CAPEX
supply chain
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Conclusions
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Conclusions
Cooperation between the offshore wind industry and the oil/gas industry Conclusions
• “Black” vs. “Green” poses problems
• 2015-2020 busy period for both industries – potential for competition and delays
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• Bottle necks: Ports, cable laying vessels and raw materials for turbines and cables
• Room for development: Turbines, tower, blades, generators
• Many synergies: Safety, engineering (foundations), manning
• Dispel the myth that offshore oil and gas technology is expensive.
Conclusions
Cooperation between the offshore wind industry and the oil/gas industry Conclusions
• The offshore oil and gas industry has 40+ years of developing offshore safety systems,
– absorb and adapt these systems
– learn from the mistakes which have been made
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• Be aware that:
– the oil and gas industry can provide technology and experience
– it will also compete with the offshore industry for resources, particularly:
• Well trained personnel
• Vessels
• Raw materials
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