One of the world’s largest salmon producers is seeking to the offshore oil and gasoline business for inspiration with the event of a semi-submersible fish farm rig designed to maneuver operations additional offshore the place environmental situations are finest suited to the expansion of fish shares.

The world’s first offshore fish farm set up is presently being developed for Ocean Farming AS, a subsidiary of the Norway’s SalMar Group, one of many world’s largest producers of farmed salmon.

Rolls-Royce mentioned Wednesday it has signed a contract for the development and supply of the eight level mooring system that can be used to safe the rig to the seabed at Frohavet, off the coast of central Norway.

Salmar says the rig’s design is closely influenced by confirmed applied sciences utilized in the offshore oil and gasoline business, comprising of a slack-anchored, semi-submersible, inflexible construction design with a excessive diploma of stability. It will measure 68 meters excessive by a diameter of 110 meters, have a quantity of 250,000 cubic meters, and can be supposed for set up in water depths of 100 to 300 meters.

The growth of the fish farming rig comes because the offshore oil and gasoline business is struggling by certainly one of its worst downturns on report, leaving many corporations wanting in direction of larger progress industries just like the aquaculture business for enterprise.

“This contract win shows how years of experience providing sophisticated mooring and deck machinery solutions in some of the world’s most difficult sea conditions can be applied in other areas of the maritime economy today and for the future,” commented Asbjørn Skaro, Rolls-Royce’s Executive Vice President for Deck Machinery. “The technical solutions for SalMar’s pilot installation is based on the state-of-the-art technology Norwegian industry has to offer from both fields of aquaculture and offshore oil and gas.”

The eight level mooring system to be delivered by Rolls-Royce consists of monitoring, fairleads, connectors and subsea load sensing system.

The new semi-submersible rig can be constructed at Qingdao Wuchuan Heavy Industry Co. Ltd in China, and is designed by Global Maritime in Norway.

The pilot semi-submersible fish farm is deliberate to be accomplished by the second half of 2017.