Offshore

The harsh offshore environment is a tough place to operate. Across multiple sectors, there is a need to electrify offshore operations and build new infrastructure that will meet global energy needs for decades to come.

Verlume’s technology and capabilities are anchored in this environment – we understand how challenging it is to design, construct and operate in the offshore arena.

Whether it’s oil and gas asset electrification, offshore wind developments, or sustainable aquaculture, Verlume has the technology and skills to help our clients decarbonise operations through intelligent energy management.

Find out more below on how we can provide cross-sector support.

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Subsea

As the subsea industry makes the transition towards net zero, there is increasing global scrutiny of the carbon footprint of operations across brownfield and greenfield sites.

For brownfield sites, there are challenges around maintaining reliable electrical supplies, which are traditionally dependent on diesel or gas turbines and their associated umbilicals. As the industry electrifies and strives to reduce emissions, the challenges of replacing carbon emitting energy sources with clean energy, whilst ensuring energy security and overcoming the intermittency challenges of renewable power generation intensify.

Within greenfield developments, there is the opportunity to develop new concepts such as all-electric platforms, subsea factories and fully autonomous subsea inspection, repair and maintenance activities. Decarbonising offshore operations from day one presents new investment opportunities for operators, by allowing sustainable production from new developments and tie-backs.

As a temporary solution or equally as a longer-term alternative, Verlume’s intelligent energy management and storage solutions can be used to maintain production where existing electrical supplies have failed. Increasingly, the same technology will ultimately replace traditional methods of power delivery by seamlessly integrating clean, remote power generated at the point-of-need.

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Offshore Wind

Offshore wind is transforming the global energy sector. A period of rapid investment and growth presents the sector with a formidable challenge; how to sustainably install, operate and maintain ever-growing quantities of high value infrastructure in the toughest of environments.

Grid connected, non-grid connected (e.g. subsea asset electrification) and green Hydrogen producing global offshore wind assets all have energy export and asset maintenance needs. Energy security is key, and Verlume’s core intelligent energy management and storage technologies are scalable for solving a wide range of challenges across the sector.

With the increasing number of developments and the sheer scale of global offshore wind developments, there is a growing requirement to fully decarbonise the maintenance activities of these developments.

Decarbonising operations in offshore wind will mean growing the adoption of fully-electric or diesel-electric hybrid maintenance vessels. Underwater inspection activities for turbine foundations, moorings, export cables and subsea substations can be fully autonomous, reducing the cost of offshore operations and the need for personnel to travel offshore.

Operational challenges such as ‘black start’ for periods of low power generation and the associated use of diesel generators to compensate, can be eliminated with intelligent energy system design.

Power export, to the grid or otherwise, can be optimised with the integration of intelligent energy storage, overcoming the intermittency and energy security challenges. By co-locating offshore wind with other marine renewable energies, such as wave, tidal and floating solar, we can partially offset the dip in energy generation during periods of low wind conditions.

Intelligent energy management is the gateway for offshore wind growth, whether they are new or existing developments, or to complement decarbonisation strategies and maintenance regimes. With a track record of solving energy generation and delivery challenges in the marine environment, Verlume is your trusted partner for innovative, intelligent energy management and storage technologies in the offshore wind sector.

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Aquaculture

Sustainable food production needs innovative and clean energy systems. In the aquaculture sector, new strategies are emerging for how operations can be adapted to meet the needs of a net zero world. To accelerate this decarbonisation, there is an opportunity to bring renewable energy and intelligent energy management solutions into the aquaculture market, electrifying operations and assets whilst providing new monitoring solutions.

For offshore aquaculture, open water brings benefits for fish health and production yields. However, moving further from shore and scaling-up operations presents not just a power delivery challenge, but also an increase in the emissions of operations by traditional methods.

Clean energy delivery to offshore sites can play a part in solving these challenges.

All-electric aquaculture farms can be powered by marine renewable energy technology. Inspection, repair and maintenance activities can be fully autonomous, reducing the cost of offshore operations and the need for personnel to travel offshore. With the growing adoption of fully-electric or diesel-electric hybrid maintenance vessels, offshore activities can be completely carbon free, maximising the environmental potential of the aquaculture sector. And just like subsea, topside supporting infrastructure can be fully electrified, integrated to marine renewable energy generation or other alternative fuel source.

Verlume has a successful track record in delivering intelligent energy management and storage technologies for decarbonising offshore operations – we understand how challenging it is to design, construct and operate in the offshore arena.

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