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East Coast Offshore Wind Industry and Technician Occupation Projections
By George Hagerman
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dMaritime is the backbone of our nation’s global trade, pivotal to our domestic "blue highway" shipping industry, critical to supporting our nation’s military and security, and one of the largest employers in the U.S. Yet it is an often overlooked and little understood industry; it offers students tremendous STEM-based career opportunities. New, technical fields, such as off-shore wind, are always emerging within this industry. This raises the need to prepare highly educated technicians.
The Southeast Maritime and Transportation (SMART) Center is one of only 39 National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) centers in the U.S. It is the only center focused solely on increasing the number of technicians in the maritime and transportation industry. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-1501449. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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East Coast Offshore Wind Development Context
As detailed in Appendix A, successful delivery of commercial offshore wind projects in the U.S. will involve all three core maritime industry sectors: (1) shipbuilding & ship repair; (2) ports & logistics; and (3) vessel operations.
Development of new workforce training and certification programs specifically designed for the Hampton Roads offshore wind supply chain must be motivated by a demand for such training, which in turn must be motivated by a reliable demand for the types of foundation substructures that most closely map to shipyard trades.
In 2015, the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy commissioned a study of Virginia’s port readiness for hosting the various offshore wind supply chain activities (www.dmme.virginia.gov/DE/OffshoreWindPortEvaluation.shtml). This included an estimate of the numbers and types of direct jobs required to manufacture 100 offshore wind turbines per year.
The figure below, from this study, shows that fabrication of jacket foundation substructures has the greatest requirement for skilled shipyard trade workers among the six different types of offshore wind manufacturing facilities. In fact, foundation manufacturing creates more shipyard trade jobs than all five of the other facilities combined.
The skillset breakdown for the 564 FTE (full-time equivalent) direct jobs required to produce 100 jacket foundations per year is given on the next page, which includes education requirements and certifications needed for each manufacturing process.
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Focus Interview & Research Process
A conventional structured survey approach was not possible, because none of the existing offshore wind foundation fabricators in Europe could justify spending time providing survey answers when they were not (and still are not) certain that the U.S. East Coast offshore wind project pipeline is reliably large enough to justify their investment in an American manufacturing facility. Likewise, they could not justify the travel cost (and time) to participate in a targeted focus group.
Therefore, to model the required workforce training, the following companies (and primary contact individuals) were interviewed by email and in many cases personal meetings at offshore wind conferences.
Offshore wind consultants:
BVG Associates (Chris Willow) Great Lakes Wind Network (Patrick Fullenkamp)
European OSW foundation fabricators:
EEW (Timothy Mack) Bladt (Lars Christensen) Smulders (Eric Fine) ST3 (Norm Skillen)
Gulf of Mexico platform designers:
Waldemar S. Nelson and Company (Charles Nelson) Keystone Engineering (Rudy Hall)
Gulf of Mexico oil & gas platform fabricators:
Chet Morrison Contractors (Bo Ristic)
Modeling Hampton Roads Regional Demand for Shipyard Fabrication Trades
The two main offshore wind foundation types are monopiles and jackets. Photographs on the next two pages illustrate the fabrication facilities, marine transport mode, and final installation of each of these two main foundation types.
The following table characterizes the required manufacturing investment and number of FTE direct jobs created for each foundation type.
Jacket Substructures Monopiles
Mostly Outdoor Yard Mostly Covered Halls All Covered Halls Capital Investment: $25-35 million $90-110 million $150-180 million FTE Direct Jobs: 550-600 500-550 200-250 Unlimited Air Draft: Required for vertical jacket transport N/A
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Monopile Foundation Fabrication Hall
Monopile Transport MTP Final Installation
Note that because monopiles can be transported horizontally, there is no requirement for unlimited air draft, and there are several U.S. East Coast ports that could host a monopile production facility. Because jackets can be most cost-effectively transported in a vertical position, the port terminals of Hampton Roads are uniquely suited to hosting a jacket fabrication facility, since most of our major highway water crossings utilize tunnels rather than bridges. Only Massachusetts has a port with unlimited air draft, which is the newly built Commerce Marine Terminal in New Bedford, but it has a land area of only 25 acres, which is not sufficient to support the type of jacket fabrication facility that uses mostly outdoor yard area, as shown on the next page.
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Jacket Foundation Fabrication Hall, Assembly Area, and Laydown Area
Jacket Transport Jacket Final Installation
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Monopile foundations are of monolithic cylindrical construction, 75 to 100 meters long and for modern offshore turbines of 6 MW and larger, have outer diameters ranging from 7 to 9 meters. Monopiles are fabricated from welded “cans” fashioned from rolling steel plates of the required circumference and 3 meters deep, having a thickness of up to 160 mm.
Monopile production is highly automated, with plate rolling machinery and robotic welding stations as exemplified in the Sif Group presentation excerpt included as Appendix B.
After a monopile is driven into the seabed, a monopile transition piece (MTP) is lowered over the top and grouted into place. The MTP primary steel cylinder is fabricated in the same type of automated production line as the monopile itself. Finished MTP production involves manual welding of secondary steel (ladders, stanchions, railings, etc.), followed by coating, and requires a similar workforce skillset as shown for the jacket production transition piece in the table on the previous page.
A jacket foundation is a three- or four-legged lattice structure consisting of corner tubulars 1 to 3 meters in diameter interconnected with bracings with diameters between 0.5 and 1 meter. The transition piece forms the connection between the main jacket and the tower of the wind turbine. The jacket is secured to the sea bed with pre-driven pin piles, typically 50 meters high and 2 meters in diameter. The dimensions of the main lattice start at 18 meters by 18 meters at the base, and 10 meters by 10 meters at the top with a height of 40 meters.
Jackets typically use less steel material than a monopile but require a much larger labor force. By comparison, monopile production involves much greater automation, hence the larger capital investment, and the skillset emphasis is on programming of automated welders, with an example position advertisement included as Appendix C to this report.
As shown in the table at the bottom of the previous page, monopile and MTP primary steel production requires the greatest capital investment ($150-180 million). Because there is already significant surplus monopile production capacity in Europe, monopiles for offshore wind projects in North America and Asia are more cost-effectively supplied from this surplus European primary steel production capacity, even with the added transport cost.
For example, the 20 monopile foundations for Ørsted’s Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind project in Taiwan are being fabricated at EEW’s facility in Rostock, Germany. The MTPs are being fabricated CUEL’s Laem Chabang yard in Thailand. These foundation fabrication contracts were awarded with Ørsted having a Taiwan project pipeline of 1.8 gigawatts out of the total 5.5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity that the Taiwanese government has awarded for development by 2025. Thus, an offshore wind project buildout rate of at least one gigawatt per year would be required before capital investment in domestic foundation fabrication facilities would be seriously considered, at least for monopile foundations.
It is generally agreed that European monopile fabrication facilities have enough surplus capacity in to produce the equivalent of a single 400-500MW U.S. project annually until the mid-2020s. Thus, the next two or three years will be critical for identifying which type of foundation would be more cost-effective for U.S. offshore wind projects, jacket or monopile.
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The U.S. has a capable workforce for manufacturing offshore wind jacket structures in the shipbuilding and offshore oil & gas industries. A unique requirement for offshore wind is the large number of nearly identical structures needed for a single project. This motivated European jacket foundation fabricators to adopt a facility investment strategy that entails substantial capital expenditures for automated production lines in covered fabrication halls. The required workforce skillset for this type of facility has more in common with the robotic welding stations of an automobile assembly plant than it does with shipbuilding or the production of a one-off oil & gas production platform.
In considering the emerging offshore wind markets of Asia and North America, however, where the investment risk is higher than in Europe, due to uncertainty in the development of a reliable project pipeline, jacket fabricators are considering a minimalist approach that would employ more cranes and self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs) in an outdoor yard setting rather than highly automated serial production in covered halls. Not only is this the least-cost option for foundation fabrication, as shown in the previous table, but such an outdoor fabrication yard can be set up and qualified within less than 12 months from the receipt of a jacket foundation order. It also creates the most direct manufacturing jobs, more than double the number of jobs created at a monopile production facility.
Platform designers and fabricators from the Gulf of Mexico offshore oil & gas industry provided the following guidance on qualifying a shipbuilding workforce for offshore wind jacket production in a mostly outdoor-yard setting.
There are no formal certification crosswalks from shipyard welding to jacket platform welding. Both industries use the same American Welding Society standard, namely D1.1- D1.1M-2010-EN-P. Shipyard welders usually weld flat or curved plate and seldom (if ever) do any structural pipe welding such as butt welds or TKY connections, which require 6GR position qualification. To qualify for jacket fabrication, shipyard welders would practice welding pipe TKY connection such as jacket diagonal braces and butt welds and then be tested to the D1.1 structural pipe standard, 6GR position qualification.
MandinasNDT.com has experience offering on-line training programs for shipyard welders to be certified in structural pipe welding and inspection, which includes a patent-pending software system for training, testing, tracking and notifying administrators on the status of personnel certifications and equipment calibrations nearing expiration. This originated when company founder, David Mandina, had to qualify shipyard welders for structural truss fabrication on Shell’s Auger tension-leg-platform some 20 years ago.
The suggested duration of a shipyard welder jacket qualification program was three to six months, with students pacing themselves through the on-line curriculum, notionally spending four hours per day, two days per week for the 3- to 6-month training period. A mostly outside jacket fabrication yard could be established within a year of receiving a firm foundation supply contract. The required training would need to take place three to six months before that, so this additional time needs to be factored into the jacket foundation delivery timetable, as it is unreasonable to expect a shipyard worker to undergo this additional training without a firm order on which to work.
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Offshore wind port example: Bremerhaven’s EUROPORT container terminal includes an offshore wind port, with 400 m of ocean-access quay with alongside seabed strength to support jacking of turbine installation vessels, 200 m of short-sea quay for inland waterway access, and a 25-hectare area for staging components.
Appendix A
Offshore Wind
Supply Chain
Context
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Introduction to Offshore Wind Energy Careers
An important emerging sector of the U.S. maritime and transportation industry is offshore wind energy, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic region. By the end of 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) had awarded ten leases for commercial offshore wind project development in open ocean waters off Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. These commercial leases cover a total underwater area of 1.15 million acres, and represent a market demand for nearly 4,300 offshore wind turbines of the size shown below, and their steel foundation substructures.
General Electric Haliade® 150-6MW
Offshore Wind Turbine (see next page for dimensions)
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The skilled workforce needed for fabrication, delivery, on-shore assembly, port staging, ocean installation, and reliable operation of an offshore wind project over its 20- to 30-year service life involves all three of the core maritime industry sectors: (1) shipbuilding & ship repair; (2) ports & logistics; and (3) vessel operations.
This Appendix provides describes how each of the above three maritime sectors match the needs of the offshore wind industry and what additional specialized training is needed to “bridge the gap” between existing careers in any one of the three core sectors and a career in the emerging U.S. offshore wind industry.
The Appendix is organized to lead off with a general description of the offshore wind supply chain element that primarily require skills from the shipbuilding & ship repair sector, which is Manufacturing. It then describes two elements that primarily require skills from the ports & logistics sector, which are Delivery and Port Staging. Finally, it describes two supply chain elements that primarily require skills from the vessel operations sector, which are Ocean Installation and Reliable Operation.
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General Information on the Offshore Wind Supply Chain
Manufacturing
In order to understand the skills and trades needed to fabricate and assemble the various components of an offshore wind turbine, a diagram of the major components is provided below. This is followed by a series of photographs that show the immense size of these components. Travel lifts and other specialized transport equipment are needed to move such heavy pieces of equipment within the fabrication hall, and such equipment also is routinely used in shipyards, to move hull modules and deckhouse modules around the yard.
Structural steel comprises the greatest weight of materials in a wind turbine nacelle assembly, and so there is a direct need for the same skills and competencies already used in the building and repair of steel ships. These skills include computer-aided design, precision machining, fitting, welding, surface preparation and coating. Moreover, due to the large size of the nacelle structural framework, these trades must be exercised on mobile lifts or on fixed scaffolding similar to the lifts and scaffolding used for shipyard worker access to high areas on a hull or deckhouse module.
The General Electric Haliade ® 150-6MW offshore wind turbine shown on these pages has a nacelle diameter that is comparable to the hull diameter of a Los Angeles class attack submarine.
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In addition to the nacelle assembly, a complete wind turbine also requires fabrication of the rotor blades. This offshore wind manufacturing specialty draws on the same skills and qualifications needed for fiberglass boat building, but at a much larger scale, as shown in the photos below.
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Two major offshore wind turbine components, whose fabrication would draw most heavily and directly from the steel shipbuilding and ship repair industry, are the turbine towers and foundation substructures. Each of these utilizes a different type of production line.
For tower fabrication, steel plates having a thickness of 3/4 to 1 inch are rolled into a cylinder called a “can” that is about 9 feet long. The can diameter ranges from 18-20 feet for a tower base section, up to 10-12 feet for a tower top section. Once the plate has been rolled into a circular section, a longitudinal weld seam completes the can. After the longitudinal weld is ground flush, several cans are joined together with circumferential butt welds to produce a tower section. Finally, secondary fabrication produces the bolt holes for joining the tower sections at sea, internal ladders for climbing access, intermediate decks and hatchways, and a door frame in the base section. The finished tower section is then painted and moved to outside storage.
Tower fabrication steps are illustrated in the sequence of photos below and on the following pages. All of these steps directly utilize production techniques familiar to shipyard workers.
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Foundation “jacket” substructures are fabricated using a production line similar to that used for offshore oil and gas platforms, where small-diameter tubular sections are welded to create frames, and then the frames are welded together to create a three-dimensional jacket. The main legs are formed from 1/4-inch to 1/2-inch thick plate and have a finished tube diameter of 3 to 7 feet. Cross-braces are rolled or pressed from thinner plate (typically 1/4-inch or less) and have a finished tube diameter of 1 to 2 feet.
The photos below show the steps in fabricating a four-legged foundation jacket in a covered hall on shore. These are followed by two photos showing the fabrication of a larger, heavier jacket in a drydock, which is used to support an offshore wind substation platform that electrically interconnects the individual power cables from each turbine and transforms the combined output to a higher voltage for export to shore.
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This substation platform was fabricated in a drydock at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which is the same yard that built the ill-fated Titanic a hundred years earlier.
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_______________________________________________________________________________________ PULL QUOTE: The amount of structural steel needed to fabricate four-legged jacket foundation structures for the commercial wind energy areas that are now leased off just four states … Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey … is equivalent to the amount of structural steel in 38 Nimitz class aircraft carriers. ________________________________________________________________________________________
In 2015, the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy commissioned an evaluation of Virginia’s port readiness for offshore wind (www.dmme.virginia.gov/DE/OffshoreWindPortEvaluation.shtml). This included an estimate of the numbers and types of direct jobs that would be needed to manufacture 100 offshore wind turbines per year. The figure below, from this study, shows that fabrication of foundation substructures has the greatest requirement for skilled shipyard trade workers among the six different types of offshore wind manufacturing facilities. In fact, foundation manufacturing creates more shipyard trade jobs than all five of the other facilities combined.
Delivery
All modes of transport – truck, rail, and barge or ship – are used to deliver the major wind turbine supply components – blades, nacelles, and tower sections – to the coastal port where they would be staged prior to offshore deployment and installation at the ocean site. As shown in the photos on the next page,, wind turbine blades provide the greatest logistics challenge for moving by truck or by rail. Offshore wind turbine blades for a 6-megawatt turbine can range in length from 230 to 260 feet (70 to 80 m), requiring three 89-foot flatbed rail cars to transport a single blade.
Land-based wind turbines are typically half the size of their offshore counterparts, but the components are still so large that they can be transported more economically by water than by land. Heavy-lift vessels transporting wind turbine blades or tower sections destined for land-based wind projects in the Midwest are a common site on the Great Lakes. These vessels typically have their own rotating cranes installed along one side of the ship, so that they don’t depend on cranes being available at their ports of origin and destination.
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ship that is delivering blades or tower sections from an overseas manufacturing plant) to another mode of transport (say, to a truck or to a rail car) requires riggers and crane operators … stevedoring trades that are found at any major port. Managing these deliveries also requires logistics planning skills on a global scale.
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The photos on the previous pages illustrate the challenges involved in transporting large wind turbine components by truck or rail. The photo below shows a specially outfitted barge that was designed to more efficiently transport tower sections by water from northern Washington to central California.
If moved by truck, each three-section tower—consisting of base, middle, and top sections—would need an escort. The nacelles and blades would require additional trailers and escorts. Coordinating drivers, escorts, permits, and specialized equipment to move all the parts would be a monumental task.
The trucking industry's fragmented regulatory system further complicated matters. Current rules allow each state to determine the routes oversized trailers must take, which often means longer trips.
"We considered all our options because moving oversized loads from state to state is complex," said Steve Jones, director of tech services and special projects for the wind project developer. "The special trailers California mandates won't necessarily meet Washington's requirements. The more we looked at the details, the clearer it became that moving the towers by truck would be expensive and complicated."
Seattle-based marine transportation and logistics service provider Foss Maritime Company developed a specialty barge that could carry ten tower sets per barge.
The barges tripled the speed of transporting the components, and eliminated the bottleneck of having to schedule highway escorts. Transporting 40 towers by barge took six weeks compared with the 16 weeks it would have taken using trucks.
"Opting for barge transportation allowed us to shave off about two-thirds of the transit time, and freed up escort resources for the other components," adds Jones. "If we had not decided to use barge transportation, we would never have met the delivery requirement."
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Note that waterborne transport on barges or ships not only requires vessel operators, but it also requires the skilled use of welding rod and cutting torch to make and break rigid steel “sea fastenings” that secure these large and heavy components to the deck. Likewise, transfer of a component from one mode of transport (say, from a ship that is delivering blades or tower sections from an overseas manufacturing plant) to another mode of transport (say, to a truck or to a rail car) requires riggers and crane operators … stevedoring trades that are found at any major port. Managing these deliveries also requires logistics planning skills on a global scale.
The nacelle and hub assembly of an offshore wind turbine can weigh up to 350 metric tons. By comparison a fully loaded 40-foot shipping container has a maximum gross weight of about 30 metric tons. Nacelle and hub assemblies thus require significantly more deck strength to be safely transported by ship or barge, and significantly more ground bearing strength to be safely stored in a port staging area. As shown in the above photo, turbine nacelles and rotor hubs are sea-fastened in cargo holds below the main deck.
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Port Staging
Manufacturing facilities must operate year-round to be economical and to provide their employees with secure, full-time jobs, but ocean installation of offshore wind turbines can be carried out only during the calm-weather summer months. This means that a large area of waterfront property must be leased as a port staging area to accumulate the nacelles, blades, and tower sections that are delivered from the manufacturing facilities. The 2015 Virginia port readiness evaluation (www.dmme.virginia.gov/DE/OffshoreWindPortEvaluation.shtml) estimates that a staging area of 50 acres is required to store the manufacturing output of 100 turbines per year.
The offshore wind staging area created at EUROPORT Bremerhaven in Germany is shown in the cover photos of this section and in the photo below.
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Ocean Installation
The first step in erecting an offshore wind turbine is to install its jacket foundation substructure. This involves driving a pile through each of the main legs of the jacket, as shown in the photo below, from the first offshore wind project in the United States, off Block Island. It shows four piles stabbed into place and one being driven into the seabed by a pneumatic hammer supported by a crane on a jacked-up lift boat, which was chartered from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Supporting the lift boat is a “feeder barge” that brings out the jacket structure sections for installation. The photo below shows the lift boat installing the upper jacket section onto the lower section that has been piled into the seabed, as shown in the previous photo.
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Once the foundation is completed, a larger turbine installation vessel is used to erect the tower sections, which are lifted into place and bolted together. Once the tower is complete, the same vessel installs the nacelle and rotor, as shown in the two photos below.
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Reliable Operation
As shown in the following photos, offshore wind service technicians are needed to inspect, maintain, and repair the mechanical and electrical equipment inside the nacelle, to inspect and repair the turbine rotor blades, and to inspect and refurbish the steel substructure foundation.
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Appendix B
Interim Results 2017 Prepared for next generation offshore windturbines
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8 Our qualified workforce
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• Welder 6G • Other welders SMAW • Operators SAW • Platers/structural • Caulkers/chipper (incl. burners) • Crane drivers/internal transport • Mechanical fitters • Helpers/craft assistants • Electricians • Plumbers • Shot blasters/painters • Quality control • Others: machine operators • Stores Total: 153
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• 50 till 255
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Appendix C
PROGRAMMER OF THE WELDING ROBOT (F/M)