| Business | Period | Client | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | 2019 | Equinor | North Sea |
Hywind Tampen was the world's first floating wind farm to power offshore oil and gas platforms.
It represented the first big step toward the energy transition and is now supplying electricity to Equinor’s oil and gas fields Snorre and Gullfaks in the Norwegian North Sea.
Hywind Tampen is a test bed for further development of floating wind, exploring the use of new and larger turbines, installations methods, simplified moorings, concrete substructures and integration between gas and wind power generation systems.
RINA supported Equinor during the phase of geotechnical survey, soil characterization, and integration of geophysical and geotechnical data in the wind farm area and along the export cables.
Thanks to the deep knowledge of the North Sea, which RINA has acquired from various projects since the 1990s, we were able to provide precise characterization of the site.
The integration of the geophysical and geotechnical data for identifying soil provinces and soil units in the wind farm area and along the cables represented one of the first ground models developed for offshore wind engineering.
RINA performed a detailed characterization of the ground conditions taking into account different type of data and integrating them in a unique ground model in order to allow optimization of the design and minimized geotechnical risks. This was possible using various and experienced internal skills in geotechnical and geophysical interpretation
