BP and ENBW in next steps for Scottish deep-offshore windfarm
Kelvin Ross
Posted on: 14 April 2023
Morven offshore windfarm will use fixed-bottom turbines in waters 65-75 metres deep.
Morven offshore windfarm will use fixed-bottom turbines in waters 65-75 metres deep
BP and ENBW have awarded engineering and consultancy firm Kent a pre-front end engineering design study for a Scottish offshore windfarm.
Located around 60km offshore from Aberdeen, the Morven project will use fixed-bottom turbines in waters of 65-75m, making it one of the deepest offshore wind developments in the world.
Awarded as part of the ScotWind leasing round to BP and EnBW, the project is expected to create an operations and maintenance base in Aberdeen and help contribute to the regeneration of the Port of Leith.
The pre-FEED studies are expected to last six months and will involve engineering design work that supports key decisions, foundation type and corrosion protection concepts, plus transportation and installation feasibility.
The Morven project is named after a mountain in Aberdeenshire and is intended to play a role in helping to achieve Scotland’s offshore wind generation target of 11GW and the UK’s 50GW target by 2030.
It is also expected to create thousands of jobs in both construction and operations over the lifetime of the project.
Cerianne Cummings, Kent’s offshore wind market director, said the project “marks another milestone in Kent's growing portfolio of offshore wind projects in the North Sea”.
“This was the team responsible for design of the world-first deep water offshore wind jacket substructures for Beatrice Offshore Windfarm, which has since become one of Europe’s largest operational offshore wind farms.”
Located approximately 13km from Scotland’s Caithness coast, the 87-turbine Beatrice windfarm became fully operational in June 2019 following seven years of development and three years of construction.
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