GREEN PALM MARINE CONSULTANCY

Building Solutions for Offshore and Oil & Gas Industry

OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY

TRANSPORTATION &
INSTALLATION CHALLENGES
(WTIV)
Presented by:
Mr. Devi Prasad
Director
Green Palm Marine Consultancy

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 OBJECTIVE
Green Palm Marine Consultancy Introduction & Expertise in Jack-Up Rigs
Business Model
Typical Wind Farm - Layout, Components & Foundation
Transportation & Installation Challenges
Turbine Size Growth
Economics Offshore Wind Turbine
Types of Vessels for Installation
Vessel Comparison WTIV v/s Floater
Jack-Up Rigs Currently in the Market
Transportation & Installation Schemes and Analysis
Vessel Design Parameters for T&I - 8MW Turbine
Solutions Offered
Development of GPMC Floating Wind Turbine Designs

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 Green Palm Marine Consultancy
Green Palm Marine Consultancy (GPMC) offers Engineering Analysis, Consultancy Services, EPC services
and Design Solutions to the Marine, Offshore and Drilling Sectors.
Registered in Dubai - UAE, GPMC is an ISO 9001: 2015 certified company with branch offices in India,
Malaysia (Petronas license), USA & UK.
GPMC supplies major operators with specifically Engineered Resolutions, Support and Project Management.

Offshore Transportation & New Designs -

Jack-Up Rigs Engineering Liftboats & Barges Subsea Engineering
Installation Engineering

Field Development
Fixed Platforms IRM Floaters FPSO / FSO Studies

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 Our Expertise in Jack-Up Rigs
Selection of
More than 40 Jack-up rig projects completed. suitable Jack-
Up Unit from
Complete Engineering Solutions: the market
Structural Life Extension for Fatigue PMT at
Survey of Unit
Shipyard
Naval Architectural Hull & Topside Interface

Marine Systems Corrosion Study

Operations Manual Steel Renewal Plan

Class / Third
Engineering
Party
Site-Specific Assessments Asset management Analysis
Approval

JACKUP
CONVERSION Upgrade / Remaining Life
SOLUTIONS LIFTBOATS FOR Conversion Evaluation and
WIND TURBINE Implementation
INSTALLATION Mitigation Plan

JACK
UP
OFFSHORE RIG MOBILE
PLATFORM OFFSHORE
DECOMMISSIO PRODUCTION
NING UNIT

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 Business Model

With the current market situation, where Drilling Rigs are contracted by Oil
companies at USD 29,000 per day, the opportunity to sustain becomes tough.
Conversion of units for diversified activities seems to have much better opportunity.
Jack-Up Rig

Jack-Up Rig

New Opportunity
Drilling Wind Turbine
T&I
Opportunity
Declining
Accommodation Platform
Decommission
Well
Intervention MOPU

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 Typical Wind Farm Layout

Cable Laying
Port Logistics Draft

Transportation Deck Area Sub-Station Installation

& Vessel Speed Crane Capacity

Foundation Installation Transition Piece Installation Turbine Installation Jacking

Crane Capacity Crane Capacity & Crane Capacity

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 Wind Turbine Components

Blade - 38 to 75MT (each)

Nacelle with Hub

425 to 650 MT

Tower 450 to 850 MT

8 MW 10 MW TURBINE COMPONENT WEIGHTS

Types Of Wind Turbine Foundation

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 Transportation & Installation - Challenges

The major challenges faced for the Transportation & Installation of Wind Turbine are as follows:

Distance from Shore to Offshore Site

Deck Strength

Water Depth

Crane Capacity

Jacking Capacity

WTIV with Crane Capacity (Tons)

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%
< 400 400 to 900 900 to 1200 1200 to 1500

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 Turbine Size Growth
Today the largest offshore wind turbine is 8 megawatts (MW), and even larger machines are
expected in the near future.
This enlargement in the size of the machines adds other challenges to the offshore installations.
Weight creates a demand for bigger lifting capacities
The increasing hub heights require taller booms for the onboard cranes.
The increased volume of the turbine components occupies more space on the installation vessel

170 mtr
10 MW
150 mtr
125 mtr 8 MW
7 MW
90 mtr
3 MW
70 mtr
1.5 MW

2005 2010 2011 2017 2019

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 Economics - Offshore Wind Turbines
Efficient turbines & foundations
reduces Capex
Market moving to bigger turbines
and efficient foundations
8MW turbine weights efficient at
present for next 10 years
Initial development
4%
Other
Onshore prepare
7%
4%

Project management Turbine

7% Turbine Foundation
39% Cables
Electrical Electrical
9%
Project management
Onshore prepare
Cables
Initial development
9%
Other
Foundation
21%

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 Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV)
The main types of vessels utilized for installation of wind turbines are as follows:
Jack-Up Rigs with Crane
Heavy Lift Crane Barges
Shear Leg Crane Barges
WTIV with Crane
Vessel with Skidding System

Heavy Lift Crane Floater Shear Leg Crane Barge Vessel with Skidding System

Among the 4 types mentioned, the best solution is WTIV and Heavy Lift Crane Barges.

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 WTIV v/s Heavy Lift Crane Floater

Sl. No. Issues Heavy Lift Crane Floater WTIV

1 Operation Mode Afloat mode Elevated mode
Less effective in higher waves due to Dynamic In-direct, no site downtime due to heavy
2 Metocean effect
Lifting seas

3 Monsoon downtime Yes No, round the year operation

More, due to fuel consumption of DP2/DP3
4 Operating cost Less
systems

5 Mobilization cost Similar Similar

6 Initial investment Low High

Usually transportation is done using feeder
7 Transportation of facilities Possible
vessels
8 Asset re-sale value Low High
High, considering the total cost of job done in Less, considering the total cost of job done
9 Overall Cost To Company more number of days and higher production in lesser number of days and less per
downtime production downtime

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 Current WTIV in the Market

VESSEL-1 VESSEL-2 VESSEL-3 VESSEL-4 VESSEL-5 VESSEL-6

LxBxDxT (M) 139 x44x10 160x49x10 139x50x11 132x42x11 147x42x11 139x41x10

JACK UP OR
JACK UP JACK UP JACK UP JACK UP JACK UP JACK UP
FLOATING

LEG LENGTH (M) 81 105 105 93 89 65

SPEED (Kn) 10.5 13 12 12 12 12

VARIABLE LOAD 6500 6600 8000 7600 8000 6000

DECK AREA 3775 4300 4600 3200 3400 3600

Max.Lifting 1500 tons @ 1200 tons 1500tons @ 1500tons@ 1000

800 tons@ 26m 31.5m
CAPACITY 14m 32m @31m 15m-32m tons@25m

WATER DEPTH 45 70 65 60 65 40

TURBINE
8MW 8MW 8MW 6MW 8MW 8MW
CAPACITY

DP2 DP2 DP2 DP2 DP2 DP2 DP2

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 Typical Transportation Schemes

Pre-Assembled Rotor
Bunny Ear with a Tower in Two Pieces (R2T - Tower in 2 pieces + Nacelle
(BE2T- Bunny Ear + Tower in 2 pieces+ without hub + Assembled rotor)
Third blade) 4 Lifts CHALLENGES FOR TRANSPORTATION 4 Lifts

Draft Port Restrictions

Deck Area

Deck Strength

Variable Load

Vessel Speed
Five Pieces Separately Six Pieces Separately
(SP5- Tower in 1 piece + Nacelle with (SP6-Tower in 2 pieces + Nacelle
hub + 3 blades) 5 Lifts with hub + 3 blades) 6 Lifts

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 Typical Installation Scheme

Mono Pile Installation Transition Piece Installation Tower Installation Nacelle Installation

CHALLENGES FOR INSTALLATION

Leg Length

Jacking Capacity & Speed

Blade Installation
Rotor With Blade Installation
Crane Capacity & Boom length

Power DP2

Wind Turbine Installation Installation by Skidding Method

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ANALYSIS : SPEED - 8 KNOTS, CRANE LIFTING OF 3 HRS PER LIFT
& 100 TURBINES CONFIGURATION

Distance from Shore Transportation

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 Analysis

The Hypothetical Wind farm

has 150 turbines to be erected.
The same vessel is used for all
installations Each crane
operation either onshore or
offshore (including assembly)
lasts for 2 hours.
Sea depth of the all cases is
fixed to 20 meters
The turbine used with 90
meters Rotor Diameter
The vessel can carry 6 turbines
in configuration BE1T at a time
(510 m2/turbine)
The vessel can carry 9 turbines
in configuration SP5 at a time
(353 m2/turbine)

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 Vessel Design Parameters for 8MW Turbine
Minimum values for the parameters taken into account for designing the vessel for
Transportation & Installation of 8 MW Wind Turbines (4 nos. at a time) are as follows:

Min Required Value

Deck Area 3,800 Sq. mtr
Variable Load 7,500 MT
Leg Length 120 mtr
Vessel Speed 12 Knots
Power 20 MW
Draft 5 mtr

Deck Strength 10 T/m2 15 T/m2

Main - 1,200 MT @ 30 mtr

Crane Capacity
Aux 600 MT @ 50 mtr
Jacking Speed 0.6 0.8 Mtr / min

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 8MW Wind Turbine Installation

110m Approx.

10m 10m 10m

Water Depth
60 m
5m

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 Improvements in Jacking & Power Management
Reduced sizes , Lower costs, Better maintenance access, VFD Controls

Pic : Courtesy RAACI

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 Solutions Offered

SKIDDING OPTION-1 SKIDDING OPTION-2 SKIDDING & LIFTING COMBINED

LIFT BOAT WITH FOLDABLE CRANE GANTRY CRANE WITH SLOT IN HULL

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 Development of GPMC Floating Wind Turbine Designs
Extensive experience in offshore structural design
Quick identification of long-lead items
Rapid identification of project risks
Accurate cost estimates
Experts in transportation & installation

Transition to floaters

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