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Scottish Renewables Offshore Wind Conference
Come and visit the Forth and Tay Offshore Wind cluster team on stand E6 at the Scottish Renewables Offshore Wind conference at the SEC in Glasgow. We'd love to catch up with our members, friends and colleages from across the industry. We look forward to seeing you.
SOWEC supply chain event Dundee - 23 Nov - image gallery
Photographs from the supply chain event on the 23rd November can be found here
Many thanks to Robert Perry who was our photographer on the day - https://www.robertperry.co.uk
Rovco and Horizon Ocean Management enter strategic partnership for Japanese offshore wind market
Pictured above - Simon Miller, Chief Revenue officer at Rovco, and Nobuyuki Takagi, Managing Director of HOM
Horizon Ocean Management (HOM) a subsidiary joint venture between Mitsui and Hokutaku (the leading turbine maintenance company in Japan) – and Rovco, a global provider of subsea robotic and hydrographic survey solutions to the offshore wind industry, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for through-life subsea asset integrity and balance of plant survey solutions for the Japanese offshore wind market.
The agreement will see both parties work together to analyse the Japanese offshore wind market and develop a better understanding of in-country demand, as well as developing asset integrity programmes of work to support the maintenance of critical infrastructure.
HOM was formed in 2021 by Japanese conglomerate Mitsui and Hokutaku, the country’s leading wind turbine maintenance company. It has already established a unique position within the supply chain of the offshore wind industry in Japan.
Rovco and HOM will enter into a joint business development agreement, with a view to strengthening commercial ties and jointly promoting new projects. They aim to build a world-class service model for subsea integrity and survey scopes across offshore wind developments in Japan.
Drawing on Rovco's reputation as a leading provider of technology-focused survey solutions to the global offshore wind sector, the collaboration provides a powerful proposition, offering through-life subsea asset integrity, 3D difference modelling assessments and critical subsea component data analysis for predictive and preventative maintenance to offshore wind projects across Japan, in the operational phase. The partnership also assists in the creation of early operation and maintenance planning regimes for clients, building upon substantial industry know-how.
Leveraging Rovco’s extensive experience gained across the UK and European sectors, the agreement will enable Japan to adopt and benefit from the lessons learned by more developed markets at an early stage. Combined with HOM’s profound understanding of the local market and regulatory requirements, the collaboration will pave the way for expansion across Japan’s coastlines.
The companies have launched a joint proposal to clients for a number of future operations and maintenance projects. The Japanese government last year unveiled ambitious plans for offshore wind expansion, including targets of 10 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and installations of a combined 30 GW to 45 GW by 2040, along with a cost reduction target by industry of 8 to 9 yen/kWh between 2030 and 2035.
Simon Miller, Chief Revenue Officer at Rovco, said: “This partnership marks a significant milestone for Rovco. The Japanese offshore wind sector is rapidly upscaling, and this is an exciting opportunity for us to work alongside Horizon Ocean Management, sharing vital insight into subsea asset integrity best practices, whilst introducing both established and emerging technologies that help capture, interpret and present key infrastructure performance against design criteria and ensuring operational uptime with overall economic benefit to our customers.”
Nobuyuki Takagi, Managing Director of HOM, commented: “The European offshore wind supply chain has a wealth of marine and subsea experience via its long history in sectors such as Oil & Gas, in order to realise our national offshore wind deployment vision, HOM believe that learning from and working with the leading companies in these more advanced markets will develop and improve Japanese competence earlier, ultimately helping to establish middle to long-term local capability. We identified Rovco as one of the most innovative subsea inspection companies and are delighted to be collaborating with them here in Japan.”
For more information -https://www.rovco.com/2022/11/09/rovco-enters-partnership-for-japanese-offshore-wind-market/
HOM and Briggs Marine Sign Collaboration Agreement
Horizon Ocean Management (HOM) - a subsidiary joint venture between Mitsui and Hokutaku (the leading turbine maintenance company in Japan) – have signed a collaboration agreement with Briggs Marine (UK) to establish the most progressive offshore wind operations and maintenance consultancy and service provision offering within the burgeoning Japanese market today.
The agreement will see both companies work together to provide pre-bidding development advisory services, development loss prevention services, installation support and world-class operational strategic advisory and service provision across the offshore wind asset spectrum. HOM has already established a unique position within the supply chain of the offshore wind industry in Japan and with Briggs Marine’s position as the pre-eminent cable service company in Europe, the collaboration delivers a powerful world-class proposition to offshore wind development, loss prevention and insurance, installation and operational players.
Nobuyuki Takagi, Managing Director of HOM, commented: “The European offshore wind supply chain has a wealth of marine and subsea experience via its long history in sectors such as Oil & Gas, in order to realise our national offshore wind deployment vision, HOM believe that learning from and working with the leading companies in these more advanced markets will develop and improve Japanese competence earlier, ultimately helping to establish middle to long-term local capability.
We identified Briggs Marine early as one of the best full lifecycle offshore cable experts around and are delighted to be collaborating with them here in Japan. With a wealth of experience in offshore wind and one of the first companies to secure multi-year O&M frameworks from major offshore wind developers, we believe that our arrangement with Briggs Marine will help establish real offshore wind competence in Japan much earlier.”
Collieson Briggs, Managing Director of Briggs Marine, commented: “We are delighted to be collaborating with HOM, helping expand our geographical offshore wind footprint beyond Europe. We continually monitor growing overseas opportunities and identified Japan as the most appropriate market to establish a presence within the rapidly evolving Asian renewable sector. It was clear from early discussions that Briggs and HOM shared a number of common aspirations and ideologies, the decision to establish a collaboration agreement was an easy one to make.
We are confident that HOM will be a strong player in the Japanese offshore wind market when the O&M service market reaches critical mass in the coming years and we are delighted to be adding to their suite of asset servicing capabilities.
For more information - https://www.briggsmarine.com/media/news-insights/hom-briggs-marine-collaboration/
SOWEC Supply Chain events | 17 Nov - Inverness | 23 Nov - Dundee
Spaces are filling fast - register now to secure your place
SOWEC has asked the Scottish clusters, Forth and Tay Offshore and DeepWind, to organise two developer/supply chain days and we have managed to secure dates and venues for both.
Details below:
Thursday 17 November
Macdonald Drumossie Hotel, Old Perth Road, Inverness IV2 5BE - 0900 - 1630hrs
Organiser - DeepWind
Wednesday 23 November
Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc, Baldovie Road, Dundee DD4 8UQ - 0900 - 1630hrs
Organiser - Forth and Tay Offshore
The purpose of these networking events is connect the supply chain with developers and support the development of new business connections.
Developers will deliver short presentations with updates on their projects, timescales and procurement strategies and ESP and SDS will also give updates on their progress with the offshore wind skills strategy. The presentations will take place during the morning session of the event with breaks, followed by lunch. In the afternoon, there will be an opportunity for attendees to meet with the developers for short, informal 1-2-1 sessions (c 10 mins).
Inverness, 17 Nov
Dundee, 23 Nov
Stromer – Orsted, Falck and BlueFloat Energy
Seagreen 1a – SSE Renewables
Buchan – Floating Energy Allyance
Berwick Bank – SSE Renewables
Moray West, Caledonia, 18 – Ocean Winds
Morven – bp and EnBW
West of Orkney – Offshore Wind Power
Ossian – CIP, SSE Renewables and Marubeni
Site 14 and 16 Northland Power
Bellrock – Falck and BlueFloat Energy
Site 15 – Magnora Offshore Wind
Campion/MarramWind – SPR and Shell
MachairWind - SPR
Muir Mhor - Vattenfall and Fred Olsen Seawind
Site 19 – Mainstream RP, Ocean Winds
Cluaran Deas Ear – Thistle Wind Partners
Site 20 - ESB
NnG – EDF & ESB
Pentland – COP
For both events, we are targeting 200 plus attendees.
For the Dundee event, we are also incorporating a short trip to the Port of Dundee via shuttle bus where Siemens, EDF and Forth Ports will facilitate a tour of the port. The bus tours will leave at 1pm , 2pm and 3pm and there is an option on the registration page to select one if you are interested in attending.
To register for the Inverness event on the 17 November:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sowec-supply-chain-event-tickets-426129353367
To Register for the Dundee event on the 23 November:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sowec-supply-chain-event-tickets-452964718667
We look forward to seeing you.
Agenda is attached to download below in the link. A copy is here for information.
FINAL AGENDA
09.00am - Registration and refreshments
09.45am - Welcome from Forth and Tay Offshore Cluster (F&TO)
09.50am - Introduction from Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC)
09.55am – EdF Renewables, ESB – Neart na Gaoithe (NnG)
10.10am - bp and EnBW – Morven project
10.25am – SSE, CIP, Marubeni – Ossian project
10.40am – Scottish Power and Shell – CampionWind and MarrumWind projects
10.55am – SSE – Berwick Bank and Seagreen 1a
11.10am – Coffee break
11.25am – Vattenfall and Fred Olsen – Muir Mhor
11.40am – Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners – Pentland
11.55am –Thistle Wind Partners – CDE and CET
12.10pm – Skills for Offshore Wind – ESP
12.20pm - Forth Ports
12.30pm - Close of Conference Session/Networking Lunch
1.00pm - Meet the Developer 1-2-1 sessions
1.00pm - Port of Dundee tours at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm
4.15pm – Event End
*may be subject to small changes
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