Wood has been awarded the Principal Designer and Pre- front-end engineering design (FEED) scope for the 100MW Salamander floating wind project, off the east coast of Scotland.
Wood will undertake and manage a system level pre-FEED to enable the planning, costing and risk-assessment of a FEED design process.
As part of the scope, Wood will manage the interfaces with the foundation designer and provide design services for the subsea and onshore cables as well as grid and onshore electrical connection.
The scope also includes wind turbine generator OEM engagement, collation of site data, ports, transport and installation analysis, and O&M strategy and certification.
The Salamander project, a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted and Subsea 7, is designed to provide the Scottish supply chain with an early capacity development opportunity, enabling it to play a much greater role in subsequent large-scale floating offshore wind buildout.
The project will deploy “innovative and cutting-edge” floating offshore wind technologies to support the cost reduction and learning journey needed for the commercial deployment of floating offshore wind.
Azad Hessamodini, Executive President of Wood Consulting, said: “Developments like the Salamander project will play a vital role in providing low-carbon energy for the region and in helping the UK to meet its ambitious decarbonisation targets.
“We are proud to be guiding the development of this innovative project and which could set the standard for future floating wind developments across the globe.”
Salamander is intended to be progressed through the innovation track of Crown Estate Scotland’s forthcoming Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round, opening in August 2022.
The INTOG round will grant seabed leases through an auction process, which will be split into two pots – one for smaller scale innovation projects of less than 100MW and one for larger projects linked to oil and gas infrastructure.
This award builds on the relationship Wood has with Simply Blue Group, having previously been awarded a pre-FEED contract for a proposed floating offshore wind farm located off the west coast of Ireland.