Forth and Tay members
ACE AQUATEC
Business type: Marine
Contact: Andrew Gillespie, Marine Protection Products Business Manager
Address: Unit 1 Waters Edge, Camperdown Street, Dundee DD1 3HY
Email:
Countries worked in: Offices in UK, Canada, Chile & New Zealand. Office in Norway coming soon. Installations and partners across Europe.
Ace Aquatec partners with world leading experts in different scientific fields to apply breakthrough technological developments to aquaculture, and marine industries – predator control, electric stunning, biomass measurement, sea lice removal and offshore marine life protection.
We’ve been fortunate enough to work with all of the major fish farms in Scotland with a view to accelerating the adoption of responsible fish farming and offshore construction practices. We also serve customers throughout Europe and over the last few years have become a truly global technology provider with installations in Norway, Denmark, Greece, Chile, Japan, New Zealand, and the USA.
https://www.aceaquatec.com/
Capabilities
Established supplier with significant experience supplying the sector
- Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Marine Mammals Surveys
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Offshore Equipment Services
Good capacity and some experience in supplying the sector
- Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Fishing Studies & Liaison
Capabilities to supply, but no/limited experience in the sector
- Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Front End Engineering & Design Studies
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: Project Management & Programme Management
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: QA Management & Document Control
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: QS & Financial Management
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: Communications & PR
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: Specialist tools, parts, PPE, lifesaving, chandlery
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: O&M Port and Logistics
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Marine Operations
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Onshore Electrical
Ambitions to diversify in the sector
- Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Access Vessels
- Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Aux Systems including power supplies & navigational aids
- DEVEX - Project Management & QA Services: Asset Management and Inventory Control
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Electrical system including backup generator, switchgear, transformers & converters
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Electrical system including backup generator, switchgear, transformers & converters
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Back Up Generators & Fuel Supply
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Vessels or Vessel Equipment Provision
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Workboats & Helicopter services
Other services offered
- Marine Mammal Mitigation services - using species-specific acoustic devices to create temporary marine fauna exclusion zones around offshore sites.
Case studies
Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm is a 731.5MW wind project being developed 22km offshore the Zeeland province in the Netherlands. The wind farm is being developed on a 146km² area, approximately 55km from the Port of Vlissingen in the Borssele wind farm zone (BWFZ). The BWFZ consists of five wind farm sites and can generate more than 1,400MW of energy by 2020. The estimated investment for the project construction is €1.3bn ($1.5bn). The project achieved financial closure in June 2018. Construction of the wind farm commenced in 2019, while commercial operations are scheduled to begin in 2021. Designed to operate for 25 years, the wind farm will have the capacity to supply power to approximately 825,000 households a year.
Contract type: 6-month hire agreement
Value: 300,000
Providing a set of acoustic devices, targeted at different species of marine life with different hearing ranges (fish, turtle, seal, porpoise), removing them from temporary exclusion zones that are required for offshore construction to commence. Whilst other deterrents make a lot of unnecessary noise, our filter removes higher harmonics. The acoustics of the Fauna Guard modules focus only on the hearing range and sensitivity of the target species (frequency spectrum) and reaction threshold levels.
Deutsche Bucht is Canada-based independent power producer Northland Power’s third offshore wind farm. The offshore wind project is located in the North Sea, more than 100 kilometres from the mainland in the German Exclusive Economic Zone. The consistently high winds in the region provide an optimal energy yield. The wind farm uses one of the most powerful offshore turbines currently available – MHI Vestas’ 8.4 MW. Approximately 1.1 billion kilowatt hours of climate-friendly electricity are forecasted to be generated per year. This is enough to meet the needs of approximately 328,000 households.
Contract type: Short term hire agreement
Value: 11500
Providing acoustic devices, targeted at porpoises, removing them from temporary exclusion zones that were required for offshore construction to commence. Academically validated sound patterns, developed through partners Van Oord, and cutting-edge military grade transducers developed by Neptune Sonar. FaunaGuard has now been made a mandatory requirement by BSH (Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency) for all German EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) activities that could harm marine fauna. The whole German offshore wind market is now using FaunaGuard for projects that could impact porpoises.
