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As global wind energy infrastructure expands, moves further offshore, and faces increasingly demanding service life requirements, coating systems can no longer be treated as secondary maintenance considerations.

They are now fundamental to:

  • Asset integrity
  • Operational continuity
  • Lifecycle economics
  • Safety
  • Sustainability
  • Investor confidence
  • Infrastructure resilience

Safinah has been granted F4OR status – Achieving the key management systems and competence required for success in the offshore renewable energy sector.

Safinah considers coatings not simply as paint systems, but as critical infrastructure protection strategies.

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Protecting renewable energy assets through Independent Coating Expertise

As offshore and onshore wind energy infrastructure expands globally, coating performance has become a critical factor in asset longevity, operational reliability, safety, and lifecycle cost management. Wind energy assets operate in some of the world’s harshest environments being exposed to saltwater immersion, splash zones, UV degradation, cyclic loading, erosion, humidity, and aggressive atmospheric conditions.

Safinah provides independent coatings consultancy, technical governance, and lifecycle support services to the renewable wind energy sector by helping developers, owners, operators, EPCs, manufacturers, and contractors reduce risk, improve durability, strengthen compliance, and maximise long-term asset performance.

Our role extends beyond traditional inspection services. We provide strategic technical leadership across the full lifecycle of wind energy projects, from specification development and material selection through fabrication, installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance, refurbishment, and failure investigation.

The growing coating-related risk in Renewable Wind Energy

Wind energy assets are expected to operate reliably for 25–35 years while exposed to increasingly demanding environmental and operational conditions.

However, coating failure remains one of the most underestimated risks affecting:

  • Offshore wind foundations
  • Transition pieces
  • Towers
  • Nacelles
  • Secondary steel
  • J-tubes
  • Boat landings
  • Substations
  • Monopiles
  • Floating wind structures

Failures in corrosion protection systems can lead to:

  • Accelerated corrosion
  • Structural degradation
  • Increased maintenance costs
  • Lost energy production
  • Reduced operational availability
  • Costly offshore intervention campaigns
  • Safety concerns
  • Warranty disputes
  • Environmental implications
  • ESG and sustainability implications

Many projects still rely heavily on fragmented contractor-led quality approaches without independent technical governance – increasing long-term lifecycle exposure.

Safinah bridges this gap through evidence-based coating consultancy and technical assurance.

Our Services - Offshore Wind

Coating Specification and Product Selection

Strategic Coating Selection for Renewable Assets

Safinah supports coating strategy development for:

  • Offshore wind farms
  • Floating offshore wind
  • Onshore wind infrastructure
  • Substations
  • Renewable energy support structures
  • Transmission infrastructure

Services include:

  • Coating specification development (for external and internal systems)
  • Product selection and evaluation
  • ISO 12944 assessment
  • Splash zone strategy
  • Atmospheric exposure analysis
  • Tidal zone assessment
  • Internal corrosion protection systems
  • Fabrication coating strategies
  • Repair philosophy development
  • Compatibility reviews
  • Lifecycle performance modelling

Client Benefits

  • Improved coating durability
  • Reduced coating failure risk and CapEx costs
  • Reduced long-term maintenance cost and asset downtime
  • Defensible technical decisions
  • Better alignment between design life and coating performance

Technical Services & QA/QC

Technical Governance Throughout Fabrication and Installation

Safinah provides independent technical oversight during manufacturing, fabrication, and installation phases.

Services include:

  • Coating inspections and management
  • Coating application audits
  • Factory acceptance support
  • Fabrication yard inspections
  • Quality surveillance
  • Contractor compliance auditing
  • Documentation review and validation

Why independent coating technical governance matters

Independent oversight helps ensure:
  • Specifications are followed correctly
  • Coating quality is verified consistently
  • Defects are identified early
  • Rework costs are minimised
  • Documentation remains legally and commercially defensible
  • Long-term corrosion risk is reduced

Coating Failure Investigation & Root Cause Analysis

Independent Investigation of Coating and Corrosion Failures

When failures occur, Safinah provides independent technical investigation services helping provide clients with clarity in coating-related legal disputes and insurance claims.

Investigation Scope

  • Premature coating breakdown
  • Adhesion failure
  • Delamination
  • Cause of increased corrosion rates
  • Cathodic protection interaction issues
  • Application defects
  • Product incompatibility
  • Fabrication-related defects

We deliver the following services

  • Failure/defect root cause analysis
  • Technical evidence gathering
  • Failure mechanism assessment
  • Corrective action strategies
  • Remediation recommendations
  • Independent technical reporting
  • Legal and insurance support documentation

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Supporting Clients across various projects

Asset Owners & Operators

Safinah helps owners and operators:

  • Reduce lifecycle risk
  • Improve coating reliability
  • Strengthen maintenance planning
  • Enhance operational continuity
  • Reduce unplanned offshore intervention

Developers & Investors

We support developers through:
  • Early-stage technical assurance
  • Risk reduction during project delivery
  • Technical due diligence
  • Independent coating governance
  • Long-term durability planning

EPC & Fabrication Yards

Safinah assists EPCs and yards by:
  • Supporting specification compliance
  • Improving coating QA/QC
  • Reducing likelihood of rework
  • Resolving coating-related issues
  • Managing technical interfaces
  • Strengthening documentation quality

Coating Suppliers

Safinah provides:

  • Independent product validation support
  • Technical review
  • Exposure suitability assessment
  • Specification support
  • Performance benchmarking

Legal & Insurance Teams

Safinah supports insurers and legal stakeholders through:
  • Expert witness support
  • Technical dispute investigation
  • Corrosion failure analysis
  • Independent technical reporting
  • Liability defensibility

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Offshore Wind Lifecycle Asset Support

Long-Term Coating Performance Management

Renewable wind energy assets require ongoing integrity management throughout operation. Safinah supports operators with structured lifecycle coating strategies designed to extend asset life and reduce offshore intervention costs.

Services include:

  • Coating condition surveys
  • Corrosion assessments
  • Maintenance planning
  • Drone and digital inspection integration
  • Rope access inspection coordination
  • Risk-based maintenance prioritisation
  • Remaining life assessments
  • Splash zone degradation analysis
  • Coating repair strategies
  • Shutdown and campaign planning
  • Asset integrity reporting

Operational Benefits

  • Reduced downtime
  • Better maintenance forecasting
  • Lower lifecycle cost
  • Improved operational reliability
  • Enhanced ESG and sustainability reporting support

Floating Offshore Wind Coating Strategy

Specialist Support for Floating Wind Infrastructure

Renewable wind energy assets require ongoing integrity management throughout their service life.

  • Dynamic loading
  • Continuous movement
  • Complex immersion exposure
  • Fatigue stresses
  • Higher splash zone intensity
Safinah supports developers and operators with coating consultancy specifically aligned to floating wind structures.

Support Areas

  • Floating platform coating strategy
  • Ballast tank coating systems
  • Mooring system corrosion considerations
  • Cathodic protection integration
  • Hybrid corrosion protection systems
  • Inspection access planning
  • Long-term maintenance optimisation

Splash Zone & Corrosion Protection

Managing One of the Highest Risk Areas on Offshore Wind Assets

The splash zone remains one of the most technically demanding environments for offshore structures. Safinah provides specialist consultancy around:
  • Glass flake coating systems
  • Splash zone repair methodologies
  • Erosion and impact resistance
  • Surface preparation constraints offshore
  • Long-term repairability
  • Thermal spray considerations
  • Offshore maintenance feasibility
This supports improved durability and reduced intervention frequency.

Meet the Energy & Infrastructure Team

Dr. Michael Aamodt

Head of E&I 

Offshore Oil Production Platforms | Oil & Gas | FPSO | FSO

Simon Daly

Consultant – E&I 

Buildings | Refurbishment | Bridges | Stadium | Intumescent Passive Fire Protection

Lee Spoor

Consultant – E&I 

Buildings | Refurbishment | Bridges | Stadium | Intumescent Passive Fire Protection

Fergus MacKinnon

Consultant – E&I 

Offshore Wind | Hydroelectric | Solar Energy

Bruno Ravel

Consultant – E&I 

Chemical & Paints | Hydroelectric | Offshore Wind

John Willsher

Business Development Manager 

Business Development | Oil & Gas | Offshore Wind

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Safinah’s Energy & Infrastructure Team offers a FREE initial consultation to help clients navigate complex coating, corrosion, and asset protection challenges across some of the world’s most demanding environments.

Our specialist expertise includes intumescent passive fire protection (PFP), offshore oil & gas, FPSO and FSO assets, offshore oil production platforms, building refurbishment projects, and offshore wind infrastructure.

Whether you require support with maintenance strategies, coating failures, refurbishment risks, compliance, or independent project guidance, Safinah provides practical, technically driven advice focused on safety, performance, and asset longevity.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

This booking consultation is available for clients who would like to speak with Safinah experts about a particular coating project.

For all other enquiries not related to a project consultation, please email enquiries@safinah.com

At Safinah, we are committed to helping clients make informed decisions from the very beginning of their project.

We offer a no-obligation consultation to discuss your requirements, project objectives, and operational challenges. Our experts provide independent, technically informed guidance on the most suitable options available – enabling you to evaluate the best path forward before deciding whether to engage Safinah’s services.

Our online booking service allows up to 30 minutes consultation.

Our experts will provide you with the information and guidance needed to support your next steps. However, we understand that some projects can be more complex and may require additional consultation time. Where necessary, our team can assist in arranging extended or additional booking sessions, which can be discussed during your initial meeting.

Once your request has been successfully submitted, our team will coordinate the final arrangements with the consultant. You will then receive a meeting confirmation, which must be accepted to secure the booking.

Please note that any meeting confirmation not accepted at least 3 hours prior to the scheduled time may be cancelled.

Yes. You may still cancel your booking after accepting the meeting invitation. We kindly ask that you notify us as early as possible so that our consultants can make the time available to other clients.

It is possible to book our consultants for meetings with multiple attendees. However, to ensure the most focused and productive initial discussion, we recommend limiting the first consultation to a maximum of three participants.

Additional attendees can be requested after you receive the meeting confirmation, or by contacting us at enquiries@safinah.com

Our consultants maintain busy schedules, and in order to provide you with the highest level of support, all bookings are carefully coordinated to ensure availability and avoid conflicts with existing commitments.

 
 

After the FREE 30-minute initial consultation, if you find it worth to use Safinah Consultancy or Technical Services, we would make a written proposal outlining the scope of work, cost, timelines and resources needed to help you with your project.

 
 

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Supporting Renewable Energy Projects through recognised industry capability

Safinah holds recognised status within the Fit 4 Offshore Renewables (F4OR) programme – reinforcing our commitment to delivering technically robust, quality-driven, and safety-focused consultancy and technical services to the offshore renewable energy sector.

The F4OR programme is designed to strengthen the UK offshore renewable energy supply chain by assessing and developing companies against the operational, commercial, and quality expectations required by the industry.

For renewable energy developers, operators, EPCs, fabricators, and contractors, Safinah’s F4OR status provides additional confidence that our systems, technical governance approach, and operational delivery capability align with the standards expected within major offshore renewable projects.

Safinah’s participation and recognised status within F4OR reinforces:

  • Commitment to offshore renewable energy sector excellence
  • Structured operational and quality management systems
  • Strong health, safety, and risk management culture
  • Capability to support complex offshore renewable projects
  • Continuous improvement and supply chain development
  • Alignment with industry expectations for project delivery
  • Technical governance and defensible decision-making capability
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Dr Michael Aamodt

Director of Technology | Head of Chemical, Energy & Infrastructure | Consultant

Michael joined the Marine and Protective coatings industry as an R&D paint chemist to develop anti-corrosive coatings. Since then he has gained 35 years of experience in marine, protective and industrial coatings within R&D, global product management, marketing, business development, consultancy and management in three major international coating companies.

He has specialist knowledge of marine epoxy coatings for hull, cargo hold, cargo tanks, surface technology/protection and corrosion. Prior to joining Safinah, Michael was Business Development Manager for a world leading institute doing applied research in corrosion and corrosion protection.

Expertise

Protective Marine Coatings & Corrosion

Languages spoken

Norwegian, English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, Persian (Farsi)

Qualifications

BSc Reservoir Physics, PhD Physical Chemistry
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Email: michael.aamodt@safinah.com

Simon Daly

Consultant (Energy & Infrastructure)

Simon Daly joined the industry as a graduate engineer working in formulating and supporting heavy duty internal linings. Since then he has extensive experience in the protective coatings industry working in technical, commercial and marketing positions. He has specialist knowledge of internal linings as well as other specialist areas.

Prior to joining Safinah Simon was global oil and gas market manager for a large multinational coating company.

Expertise

Internal linings (tanks and vessels), hydrocarbon fire protection & corrosion under insulation (CUI)

Languages spoken

English

Qualifications

B. Eng (Hons), MICorr, AMPP Senior Corrosion Technologist

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Lee Spoor

Consultant (Energy & Infrastructure)

Lee Spoor joined the industry as a graduate chemist working in coatings production support and formulation development with a major International coating manufacturer where he has spent his career to date. Subsequently he has devoted much of his time delivering high end project support to the oil and gas and infrastructure markets. His role in project support troubleshooting projects on behalf of major clients has provided him a wealth of varied site experiences which he now brings to Safinah. In addition to his knowledge of coatings Lee has supplemented this with qualifications and specific experience in the various passive fire protection markets.

Expertise

Passive Fire Protection (hydrocarbon and cellulosic), bridges, failure analysis​

Languages spoken

English

Qualifications

BSc. (Hons) Chemistry, AMPP Senior Certified Coatings Inspector (NACE Level 3), ICorr Fire Proofing Inspector (Level 3)

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Fergus MacKinnon

Consultant (Energy & Infrastructure)

Fergus spent the early part of his career working as an analytical chemist in the pharmaceutical industry prior to moving into the coatings industry where he spent 10 years as an R&D chemist at one of the largest paint companies in the world.

He has broad experience of working with many of the coating technologies typically used in the infrastructure and renewables sectors.  He is also experienced in product formulation, test method development, specifications, approvals and testing plus managing joint industry projects with oil and gas majors.

Fergus has also had a 6-year spell working in technical sales, providing technical and commercial solutions to the UK coating, composites and adhesive industries.

Expertise

  • Industrial protective coatings, maintenance, repair and corrosion
  • Project Management

Languages spoken

English

Qualifications

BSc(Hons) Chemistry – With New Materials Technology

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Bruno Ravel

Head of Chemical & Disruptive Technologies | Consultant

Bruno has a background in chemistry and has specialist knowledge of coating formulation and testing in relation to the heavy-duty coating market.

He worked for 10 years as a paint formulator for many paint companies in the marine and protective coating sector including one of the world’s largest heavy-duty paint companies. He has expertise in paint formulation of various chemistries such as anticorrosive coatings, topcoats and intumescent coatings and their corresponding testing requirements. Bruno has successfully developed and launched new intumescent products into the market.

Within Safinah, Bruno heads the coatings technology sector with clients such as raw material providers, paint manufacturers and new technology disruptors, ranging from start-up to multinational. This sector provides market insights such as market analysis, forecasting, assistance with formulation, technology assessment in order to minimize clients’ risks, time and cost to enter the market.

Expertise

Polymer Chemistry, Coating formulation

Languages spoken

French, English

Qualifications

MSc, ENSCMu, NACE CIP Level 2

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John Willsher

Business Development Manager

John graduated from Salford University in 1986 with a first-class honours degree in Chemistry. He joined International Paint in 1986 and worked as a Paint Chemist in the development laboratories, before spending five years working in the Marine Marketing Department. 

Between 1995 and 2006, he worked for companies in the UHP hydroblasting and surface protection contracting industries. His role within these companies covered General Management and ultimately Managing Director positions.

In 2006, John re-joined International Paint as Market Development Manager for Foul Release (Intersleek) products for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). In 2009, he was appointed Worldwide Market Manager for Intersleek foul release products. 

In 2020, he was appointed Global Account Manager responsible for the team supporting the largest shipping groups worldwide – and in 2025, John joined ECOsubsea as Global Business Development Director for ROV underwater cleaning services.

He recently joined Safinah as Business Development Manager and Vessel Efficiency Specialist.

Expertise

Business Development, Management, Marketing, Account Management

Languages spoken

English

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Email: john.willsher@safinah.com

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