Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) is providing a ground model for a US offshore wind farm in development and its cable route.
The ground model, for an undisclosed developer, will form part of the site assessment and construction and operations plans for the project, which will be submitted to the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
A team of geoscience engineers at OWC will develop the ground model and the company will manage the project out of its office in Boston, Massachusetts.
OWC managing director Will Cleverly said: “Our approach to ground modelling maximises data value through GIS integration and analysis.
“We follow rigorous terrain and subsurface mapping principles which, combined with extensive practical offshore acquisition and interpretation experience, allows us to produce quality outputs that focus on the key engineering project drivers”.
Cleverly said the “primary objective” is to characterise the seabed and shallow soils and to identify geohazards, focussing on the engineering end-use of the ground model.
“OWC has built its ground experience with over 27GW of offshore wind geotechnical site assessments and campaigns from projects in the US, Europe and Asia,” he added.
OWC is part of Oslo-listed energy consultancy group AqualisBraemar.