UK-based subsea technology and services firm Rovco has won a contract for a geo-environmental survey at Flotation Energy’s planned Cenos floating offshore wind farm.
Located in the Central North Sea some 200 kilometres off the northeast coast of Scotland, the 1.4 GW Cenos floating wind development will cover approximately 333 square kilometres.
Rovco, which launched a dedicated marine site characterisation business line, will use its multi-purpose, DP2 survey vessel, the Glomar Supporter, to conduct the survey.
, to conduct the survey.The project will comprise 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 within these locations.
Rovco will also acquire geophysical and benthic information for the environmental impact assessment and the engineering processes from engineering to early front-end engineering and design study.
The geophysical element of the workscope requires the acquisition of a multi-beam echo sounder, side scan sonar, magnetometer, sub-bottom profiler, and multi-channel seismic data along with associated analysis, processing, interpretation, and reporting.
Flotation Energy’s partner on Cenos is Norwegian-offshore wind company Vårgrønn – a joint venture between Eni-owned Plenitude and HitecVision.
“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 2m tonnes of CO2 a year, helping to support Scotland towards its 2045 net zero targets,” Dan Wright, supply chain manager at Flotation Energy, said.
