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Fife fabrication firm AJS Production starts work on wave energy prototype

Raymond Imrie, managing director of AJS Production Ltd and Mocean Energy managing director Cameron McNatt
Raymond Imrie, managing director of AJS Production Ltd and Mocean Energy managing director Cameron McNatt

A Fife fabrication firm has started work on a 30-tonne wave machine which will take to the seas this Autumn.

Cowdenbeath-based AJS Production Ltd is forging ahead with a 20-metre long Blue Star wave energy converter which has been designed by Edinburgh start-up Mocean Energy.

The half-scale device will be deployed in Orkney this autumn and will undergo a number of sea trials prior to generating first power later this year.

Mocean Energy managing director Cameron McNatt said: “The UK oil and gas sector is exploring ways to decarbonise their operations and this technology has a range of uses in powering subsea technology.

“Our Blue Star design has undergone rigorous numerical modelling and tank testing at the world leading wave tank at Nantes and it is very exciting to see it taking shape in steel in advance of sea trials.

A visualisation of a floating wave energy converter providing power to a Oil and Gas platform subsea “tieback” – a cluster of oil or gas wells connected back to the platform by a pipeline

“AJS Production has a great track record in offshore fabrication and it is terrific to see work progressing so well.”

Following completion, the machine will undergo quayside ballasting and wet testing at Burntisland prior to being transported by land to Aberdeen and then ferry to Orkney.

Last month Mocean Energy announced a pilot project with oil major Chrysaor and subsea specialists EC-OG and Modus to study the potential to use the Blue Star prototype to power a subsea battery and a remote underwater vehicle at the Orkney site.

Raymond Imrie, managing director at AJS Production, said: “This is a great project to be involved in and is yet another milestone in Scotland being at the forefront in leading the UK to become carbon neutral.

“The project is well underway and although we have been involved in similar contracts, we are still learning lessons when it comes to working on prototypes of this scale.

“We have had the backing of a good lead team, along with a professional design team, who have certainly made the project run smoothly.

“We’re looking forward to seeing the device launched successfully and sea trials beginning in the autumn.”

rmclaren@thecourier.co.uk