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Deepsea Star - Model FOWU -Cutting-edge Floating Offshore Wind Unit
The Deepsea Star™ is a cutting-edge floating offshore wind unit (FOWU) meticulously designed for large-scale wind energy production, specifically targeting turbines exceeding 15 MW. Its innovation lies not just in accommodating the massive scale of modern turbines, but in its robust capability to operate in the North Atlantic, where extreme environmental conditions such as high waves, strong winds, and icy waters pose significant operational challenges. This design addresses the limitations of traditional supply chains, which often cannot handle the production and deployment of such voluminous floaters. By focusing on structural integrity and durability, the Deepsea Star™ ensures reliable performance even in the face of potential structural failures caused by harsh maritime environments. This makes it a valuable asset in the expansion of renewable energy capabilities on a global scale.
The deployment of large wind turbines, particularly those exceeding 15 MW, presents significant challenges: conventional supply chains struggle to produce large volumes of floaters, and the floaters must operate in areas with extreme waves, winds, and ice that can cause structural failures. The Deepsea Star™ is specifically designed to overcome these barriers.
- Robust Multilocation Design: Engineered with the severe metocean conditions of the Barents, Norwegian, North, and Celtic Seas as its Design Basis, the Deepsea Star™ is suitable for global deployment.
- Mass production: Optimized for industrial-scale production, the design minimizes infrastructure requirements for local assembly and installation. Our WindSteel Initiative will enable the manufacturing of the Deepsea Star™ at large scale, reducing overall costs and carbon footprint.
- Structural Integrity: Built to maintain structural integrity throughout its lifecycle and adhere to strict maritime class regimes.
- Accessibility: The structure can be accessed via CTV, SOV, or helicopter, ensuring operational flexibility.
- Scalability: Ready for the next generation of Wind Turbine Generator Systems (WTGs) over 20 MW.
- Decades of Expertise: The design draws upon Odfjell’s 50+ years of experience in operating drilling rigs under extreme conditions, coupled with Oceanwind’s 20+ years in floating wind technology.
- Regulatory Approval: Currently undergoing Basic Design Approval from DNV, set to conclude in 2024.
- Upcoming deployment: Selected for use in the GoliaVIND and UtsiraVIND projects and has been shortlisted by several project developers for upcoming offshore wind parks.
- Metocean data (NORA10 – NORA 3 hindcast) from Norwegian Meterological Institute applied to develop basis for multilocational design basis
- Covers typical areas Odfjell have been operating drilling rigs in for 50 years
- Barents, Norwegian, North, and Celtic Seas
- Celtic sea included due to floating wind ambitions
- Recently confirmed South West/West Coast of Ireland is within design basis by assessing metocean data for four locations
- Areas covered by design basis, represents most of the harsh environments in the world