Bourbon Wind builds on offshore service big’s 10 years of set up of the primary floating wind farm prototypes in Europe.
Building on greater than 10 years expertise within the set up of the primary floating wind farm prototypes in Europe, Paris-headquartered offshore companies specialist Bourbon has established a brand new division devoted to offshore wind. It says the brand new Bourbon Wind division will assist its ambition to grow to be a significant participant throughout the complete offshore wind worth chain: pre-studies, transport and set up companies, area upkeep, floaters restore and personnel transport.
Bourbon says it’s dedicated to contributing to the expansion of the renewable power trade, and offshore wind energy particularly, both as a service supplier or as a main contractor (EPCI contract), in Europe and worldwide.
Bourbon’s wind growth ambition is to serve fields from 250 MW to 1 GW by 2030. Bourbon Wind will coordinate all of the group’s actions on this area, creating necessary cross-functional synergies:
- Bourbon Subsea Services for growth research, turnkey development contract tenders (EPCI), in addition to subsea inspection companies (ROV)
- Bourbon Mobility for personnel transportation tenders (CTV) and
- Bourbon Marine & Logistics for shipmanagement, upkeep companies (SOV) in addition to logistics base administration.
The division will likely be headed by Patrick Belenfant (a member of the Group Executive Committee), who has 30 years of expertise within the power and subsea sectors. He and his workforce initiated the primary floating wind turbine set up off the coast of Portugal in 2011.
“With our unique experience in building, installing and maintaining prototypes and pilot farms, our ambition is to actively participate in the development of the floating wind industry with our current and future partners,” mentioned Belefant. “We have a detailed understanding of the maritime constraints and risks for the installation and management of wind turbines. By creating this division, we will focus more on the industrial challenges of large-scale wind farm deployment.”
