Before a floating wind farm can produce energy, it has to stay where it is designed to be. Anchors, mooring lines and seabed knowledge are therefore not secondary engineering details, but central questions for the scale-up of floating offshore wind.
This is the starting point for OASIS 2026, the first International Seminar on Offshore Anchorage Systems, which will focus on offshore geotechnics for floating wind and next-generation anchoring systems. Its four plenary sessions will address site investigation, mooring lines and loading, innovative anchor developments and shared anchors: topics that reflect some of the core technical questions behind reliable station-keeping design for future floating wind farms.
TAILWIND will contribute to this discussion through NGI and SINTEF Ocean. NGI is co-organising the seminar, with Aligi Foglia (TAILWIND project coordinator) also joining the third session tackling the latest advancements in anchoring systems, featuring innovative anchors and cutting edge developments from academia. Stian Sørum from SINTEF Ocean will speak in in the morning, during the session dedicated to how hydrodynamic loads act on mooring lines and how geotechnical calculations can be used to optimise chain design for safer offshore systems.
The event will be hosted by the Université Gustave Eiffel in Paris, on September 24, 2026. Don’t miss the available Early Bird & student rates until July 15, 2026: registration link and full program are available here
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Sep 24, 2026
