Acteon: Breathing New Life Into Floating Wind Using Digital Response Twin

Wedoany.com Report-Oct 09, By using new technologies such as digital response twin, one of the tools developed and used successfully in the oil and gas sector, we can extend the life of floating wind farms, Tim Eyles, Vice President of UK-based company Acteon revealed.

At this year’s Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC), Eyles, together with Ben Andrew, Director of 2H Offshore, discussed the challenges the companies are facing when developing the floating wind farms and how equipment and processes used in the oil and gas sector can help ease and resolve these challenges.

Acteon provides products and services for the renewable near-shore construction and the oil and gas sectors across all phases of the life cycle. During its remarks, Eyles unveiled that they are currently working on the operations and maintenance plans for future floating wind farms both in the UK and in the USA, and they will probably work in places like Japan and Taiwan.

“Places like Japan, Taiwan, places in the USA, floating wind will play a key part in,enabling renewable energy sources in those regions. There’s a lot of challenges in developing floating wind, especially with the economics,” Eyles stated.

For Ben Andrew, the Director of 2H Offshore, the company working on advanced engineering systems for all types of offshore structures, both in oil and gas and the renewable sectors, the biggest challenge with floating wind is that it’s such a dynamic and complex system.