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RENEWABLE ENERGY
AMOG has a successful and proven track record of providing leading engineering solutions in the renewable energy sector, including wind, wave, solar, and clean energy solutions such as ammonia and hydrogen.
- Independent Project Technical and Management Review
- Project Completion, Handover and Variation Claims Issues
- Failure investigation
- Risk and reliability analysis
- Fire and Blast Engineering
- Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics
- Designing Mooring and Riser Systems for Floating Production Systems
- Design Verification and Audits
- Structural Analysis and Design
- Naval Architecture
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The offshore wind market is one of the fastest growing types of renewable energy. It is estimated that the next decade will see in excess of 15,300 turbines installed worldwide (1) as the global demand for renewable energy increases. Unlike their onshore counterparts, offshore turbines need to withstand harsh ocean environments with site-specific challenges including water depth, seabed make-up, and environmental conditions (wave loading, current, winds and ice flow), as well as the structural challenges of mooring systems, extensive corrosion protection and navigational safety concerns.
Since 1991, AMOG has worked in the offshore energy sector, delivering engineering solutions in the areas of integrity management, mooring design, dynamic analysis of mooring systems, installation support, life extension, cable and pipeline installation and protection, hull assessments, and advanced hydrodynamics and metocean analysis. AMOG has 30+ years of experience in designing, validating/re-qualifying, inspecting and refurbishing moorings. This experience includes chain, chain-wire, wire and artificial fibre moorings, single leg to 20-line moorings, utilising drag, pile or clump weight anchors, in water depths from 5 m to 3000 m.
AMOG’s key areas of expertise covers:
- Concept Mooring Design to Optimise CAPEX, O&M and Reliability
- Mooring Integrity Management Planning & Implementing
- Analysis of Mooring Systems
- Cable Concept Design for Challenging Conditions
- Cable Integrity Management Planning & Implementing
- Fully Coupled Analysis for Ultimate Strength and Fatigue Conditions
- Life Extension
- Fatigue design (which can govern) of mooring, cables and structures
- Experience with Dynamics and Offset Issues (Harsh Shallow Water, Deep Water, High Current)
- Synthetic Rope Expertise (Creep, Strength, Reliability, Connectors, Installation and O&M)
- Installation Support
- Cables and Pipelines (design of protection, installation, and submarine)
AMOG can perform design analyses using advanced numerical techniques and state-of-the-art software, covering a broad range of issues pertinent to the design, installation and management of mooring and cable systems. Our understanding of floating wind is complemented by our 30 plus years experience designing and analysing a wide range of hull forms (tanker based FSO/FPSO, Spar, Semi-Submersible, TLP, Barges, CALM, Aquaculture facilities) and the riser/mooring/cable systems employed. This capability enables a fundamental understanding of the mooring and cable systems, the degradation threats to these systems, and the mitigations required and applicable if this threat emerges during design or operation.
AMOG has unparalleled expertise in tidal and wave energy, developed over years of ocean engineering, assisting other companies with their project development activities, developing arguably one of the world’s leading wave energy technologies; the AMOG WEC Generations 1 and 2.
AMOG is able to provide project management support for renewable energy projects including cost and schedule development as well as local electrical distribution interface management, regulatory body approval and local and state government stakeholder administration.
AMOG’s key areas of expertise covers:
- Site Selection Studies
- Technology and Economic Reviews (modelling, due diligence, task review)
- Mooring Integrity Management Planning & Implementing
- Analysis of Mooring Systems
- Cable Concept Design for Challenging Conditions
- Cable Integrity Management Planning & Implementing
- Fully Coupled Analysis for Ultimate Strength and Fatigue Conditions
- Life Extension
- Fatigue design of mooring, cables and structures
- Experience with Dynamics and Offset Issues (Harsh Shallow Water, Deep Water, High Current)
- Synthetic Rope Expertise (Creep, Strength, Reliability, Connectors, Installation and O&M)
- Installation Support
- Cables and Pipelines (design of protection, installation, and submarine)
- Failure Investigations
AMOG WEC Generations 1 and 2:
Large scale Solar Energy offers unique opportunities to contribute to a greener worldwide energy supply. AMOG has assisted CSP (concentrated solar power) farms with structural design expertise with design and modification expertise.
A range of challenges are expected on the horizon with floating solar farms and AMOG is well placed to provide mooring and power cable solutions in these areas. There have been a number of land based developments and new opportunities are shifting them into the offshore environment. AMOG’s subsea power cable design, routing and risk assessment services play a vital role in this area.
Supporting the Clean Energy Transition through Technical Safety, Port Planning and Marine Engineering.
The clean energy transition fuelled by Hydrogen, Ammonia and Methyl Cyclohexane (MCH) presents significant new hazards and engineering challenges. AMOG specialises in the management of technical risk for facilities handling and storing these hazardous chemicals, as well as provision of engineering solutions to Ports and marine facilities facilitating their import or export.
Our clients include:
- Project owners, operators and developers
- Port authorities
- Project designers
- Financiers
- Equipment suppliers
- Government departments responsible for funding or developing Green Energy / Hydrogen Hubs
- Ship owners
- Safety regulators
AMOG adds outstanding value, particularly in the early project lifecycle phases. In addition to assistance with port land use planning and CUFs, marine export systems, assessments of jetty suitability, and selection and design of fendering and berthing systems, our expertise and services also includes:
- Advising on the suitability of proposed project locations from a safety, utilisation and risk perspective
- Identifying project technical safety and regulatory requirements / specifications
- Developing technical safety project plans
- Providing assurance as owner’s engineers
- Conducting engineering due diligence
- Delivering the necessary technical safety studies: HAZID / HAZOP, QRA, Functional Safety, management of Hazardous Areas, Occupied Building Assessments, Fire, Explosion, Toxic Gas studies, etc.
- Developing Safety Cases and Safety Case Outlines for Major Hazard Facilities
- Determination of Safety Critical Elements, and associated Performance Standards