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How to build a sustainable

floating offshore wind industry?

Floating Offshore Wind seminar in Oslo on the 26th of January 2017

Ingelise Arntsen, EVP Renewables - Aibel

Aibel - Scope of services

Aibel is a leading service company within the oil, gas and

renewable energy industry

Concept studies

FEEDs

Engineering

Procurement

Fabrication

Installation

System completion

Maintenance

Operational support

Decommissioning

Concept studies

FEEDs

Engineering

Procurement

Fabrication

Installation

System completion

Maintenance

Operational support

Decommissioning

2

Aibel - Scope of services

Aibel is a leading service company within the oil, gas and

renewable energy industry

Concept studies

FEEDs

Engineering

Procurement

Fabrication

Installation

System completion

Maintenance

Operational support

Decommissioning

Concept studies

FEEDs

Engineering

Procurement

Fabrication

Installation

System completion

Maintenance

Operational support

Decommissioning

3

DolWin 2 – our first wind platform

■ Contract awarded August 2011 to design and build

DolWin 2 (ABB)

■ DolWin wind parks near Helgoland, in German

sector of the North Sea

■ Transform alternating current (AC) from wind

turbines to direct current (DC) to reduce

transmission loss

■ Receive electricity from more than 200 offshore

wind turbines

■ The size of a soccer field

■ Living quarter for 24 persons

■ Platform built in Dubai

■ Sail-away from Dubai to Haugesund in June 2014

■ Installed at the DolWin field and Aibel scope

delivered in August 2015

«floating»

Floating Foundations - Hywind

■ Statoil is establishing a floating wind park northeast of

Scotland

■ Hywind Scotland Pilot Park will consist of five floating

wind turbines of 6 MW each

■ Aibel scope is FEED, Detail Engineering and

Fabrication Follow-up, in addition to assistance for

substructures and mooring systems

■ O&G now show interest for such floaters

Illustration: Statoil

Why engage in Renewables?

■ Utilize the experience, competence and capacity Aibel have

within O&G, to take part in the renewable industry

■ New industry with its own dynamics and drivers

■ New geographical markets

■ New customer groups

■ New and interesting challenges for our employees

■ Improve robustness by developing more legs / income

streams to support the company

■ Exercise Corporate Social Responsibility in practice

■ Meet requirement for meaningful work for the engineers

and management talent of the future

Renewables i Aibel

■ Aibel has conducted several studies on HVDC

platforms

■ F.ex. Doggerbank in the UK sector

■ Regularly evaluate various ocean-energy

technologies (tidal, wave, floating wind)

■ Concept/development work to create competitive

advantages and be prepared to offer next generation

solutions (to support drive for lower COE)

■ Establishing O&M within offshore wind

■ Long and extensive O&M experience from O&G

on NCS

■ Large O&M market under development - both for

HVDC/AC platforms and turbines with

foundations

From Oil & Gas to Renewables …

What is it that Aibel can do, which is useful competence in

developing a sustainable offshore wind industry?

■ Large and experienced industrial company

■ With large and challenging wind power projects at sea,

there is room and need for large, serious EPC(IC) providers

■ Experience transfer from offshore (O&G) environment

■ Design and construction of structures at sea

■ What is required of workers there

■ The importance of logistics

■ Understand the need for study/FEED and well planned T&I

■ Well developed HSE culture

From Oil & Gas to Renewables …

What about Renewables is new and unknown

to a Norwegian O&G company?

■ Customers who are less experienced buyers

of large, complex projects

■ Less supplier friendly contract formats than

on the NCS

■ Fixed prices, higher demand for

guarantees etc

■ New (and partly un-developed) rules &

regulations

■ Be careful not to develop a similarly strict

regime as in O&G



■ A market must be there

■ It must be big enough and soon enough

■ The product (kWh) must be cheap enough to continue to be in demand




■ Governments (and citizens) must want offshore wind as part of the overall

sustainable energy solution

■ Dedicated/designated area and infrastructure must be in place for investors

to develop projects

■ Rules and regulations giving predictability

■ Willing investors must be there

■ Suitable products for offshore application must be there

■ In initial phases: financial support regimes to get the ball rolling …





■ Visibility of large enough volumes for industrial players to be interested in

investing in necessary product development and project development

■ Problem that 2030 or 2040 is far away from a commercial point of view

■ Difficult to get true industrial focus, attention and investments until it is

more tangible

■ This is where the authorities come in and might be the facilitator, - to

compensate for the long term perspective – by providing financial

support/infrastructure





■ The product (kWh) must be cheap enough to continue to be in demand

■ The more industrialized, the lower cost per energy unit produced => less need for financial

support

■ Need continuous improvement on all elements: CAPEX, OPEX, robustness/min. downtime

■ Through:■ Standardization

■ Transfer of knowledge from other industries

■ R&D

■ Aibel is exploring various concepts and solutions such as: ■ Material choice (to address CAPEX, maintenance cost and weight)

■ Mooring systems

■ Floating structures (design)


floating offshore wind industry in Norway?

■ «Everybody» sais that Norway has an advantage with so much experience

to draw upon from the offshore industry

■ But Norway and Norwegian companies have yet to take such a position in

a significant way – why?



■ No market currently in Norway

■ A home market is (probably) necessary to build an industry and provide an arena for R&D

■ Statoil have been willing to take an “industrial engine” role

■ But have to take most of its investments and jobs abroad



■ No market currently in Norway

■ A home market is (probably) necessary to build an industry and provide an arena for R&D

■ Statoil have been willing to take an “industrial engine” role

■ But have to take most of its investments and jobs abroad

■ Could a market in Norway be developed?

■ Authorities should recognize that time-is-high if ambitions to develop such Norwegian

industry are there

■ Maybe authorities could provide the foundation for offshore wind taking a role in the

electrification of O&G activities

■ Interesting opportunity to test out combination of ocean technologies + storage

systems + save costly transmission investments

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