Odfjell Oceanwind joins North Sea Salamander floating wind venture as majority owner

Odfjell Oceanwind reported that it has acquired Ørsted's 80% share in the 100-MW Salamander floating offshore wind farm, 35 km from Peterhead on Scotland’s east coast.

Odfjell Oceanwind, alongside existing partners Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, will continue development of the demonstration project for commercial-scale floating offshore wind.

Salamander secured an exclusivity agreement for a seabed lease from Crown Estate Scotland in the INTOG leasing round, and it also recently obtained section 36 consent from the Scotland government.

The partners have selected Odfjell Oceanwind's Deepsea Star semisubmersible steel foundation for the project.

"The Salamander project share acquisition is a key part of our ambition to make floating wind relevant and commercial through the gradual scale-up in project and wind turbine sizes before reaching utility scale. It follows as a natural stepping stone from our recent announcement of the ScaleWind project where we secured a slot with a 24-MW grid connection at the Marine Energy Test Centre, Norway, with the ambition of installing one full-scale floating offshore wind turbine in 2028."

—Per Lund, CEO, Odfjell Oceanwind

In January of this year, the Salamander floating offshore wind partnership announced that it retrieved floating LiDARs and wave buoy equipment. All were deployed offshore for a metocean campaign for the proposed Salamander development. The survey, which started in October 2024, was designed to support planning of the project's design, operations and maintenance strategy.