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EXHIBITION AOG

What:

Australasian Oil & Gas

Exhibition & Conference

When:

March 11-13, 2020

Where:

Perth Convention and

Exhibition Center

Exhibiting Brands: 300

Visitors: 8,700

For more information: aogexpo.com.au up to 100m by tethering them to the ward offshore wind farms of a scale ? oating structures are quite complex. seabed. Each turbine can successfully that will diversify the offshore industry We need to simulate the impact of generate up to 8.4 megawatts (MW) into renewables. Wind is more reliable wind loading on the turbine, how the each. GE Renewable Energy now has out to sea, and the ability to build and structure moves in the ocean and how a 12MW turbine at 220m rotor size install these wind turbines is becoming those movements stress the mooring to be installed off the coast of France. more cost-effective,” Dr Veen said. lines into the seabed,” Dr Veen said.

“I don’t think we’ve reached the max- “Power is transmitted back to shore “It’s a complex system and we are imum size for these turbines yet. Simu- via subsea power lines, and while taking the existing software that de- lations show they can get bigger, more there is a risk there, we already rely on signs ? oating systems offshore and ef? cient and more sophisticated,” Dr undersea cables for a range of technol- enabling it to integrate with other

Veen said ahead of the conference. ogy, including Australia’s connection specialist structural and aeroelastic “There are no deepwater turbines in to the internet.” design software to allow an analysis of

Australia at the moment but a ? xed At Bentley, Dr. Veen is part of an the whole integrated system.” windfarm off the coast of Gippsland international team based in seven dif- Dr. Veen is the Associate Product in Victoria is being explored by Star ferent time zones and three continents Manager, MOSES, Bentley Systems of the South. What I ? nd interesting developing software for hydrodynam- and will be presenting on Marine Re- is the push for this technology isn’t ic ? oating systems. He is also Bentley’s newable Energy as part of the Knowl- coming from governments, it’s com- representative on a project led by the edge Forum at AOG2020. ing from industry – particularly in American International Energy Agen- Register free now to hear Dan-

China and Europe.” cy, known as OC6. iel speak at AOG 2020: https://bit.

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