Tokyo-based world delivery firm Mitsui O.S.Okay. Strains Ltd. (MOL) has taken a stake in Odfjell Oceanwind, a Norwegian agency that makes a speciality of floating offshore wind.
The strategic partnership allows Odfjell Oceanwind to speed up its marketing strategy of supporting and partnering with offshore wind builders in realizing floating offshore wind initiatives primarily based on the corporate’s proprietary Deepsea applied sciences. Deepsea provides distinctive advantages by way of standardized and DNV-approved designs for giant 15 MW+ offshore wind generators.
The Deepsea Star semisubmersible basis design in metal has already been chosen for the GoliatVIND and UtsiraVIND initiatives and is presently being thought-about for a number of INTOG and Scotwind initiatives, and for a complete of fifty GW of initiatives globally.
“MOL is a high quality investor that completely enhances our current shareholders,” says Odfjell Oceanwind CEO Per Lund. “Being one of many world’s largest delivery firms working greater than 800 ships, and with a quickly rising service portfolio related for floating offshore wind, MOL comes with beneficial sources and expertise that can be necessary to Odfjell Oceanwind.”
Odfjell Oceanwind combines Odfjell’s 50 years of maritime expertise in designing, constructing and working floating items in harsh environments with Oceanwind’s 20 years of expertise in growing floating offshore wind options.
