Underwater

The evolution of the offshore industry driven by the energy transition presents a unique opportunity to embrace novel and innovative energy management, energy storage and power generation technologies. There are a wide variety of applications for a combination of these technologies in the underwater environment.

Electrification of subsea assets to reduce the carbon intensity of operations in the blue economy needs power delivery at hard-to-reach locations and harsh environments.

Verlume’s core technologies of intelligent energy management and storage offer our clients an alternative to the traditional, fossil fuelled methods of power delivery, allowing seamless integration of clean energy systems to existing and new infrastructure and developments.

You can find out more below on how Verlume’s technology is applied across various subsectors.

Subsectors

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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Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage

Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) is an essential piece of the global decarbonisation challenge. Removing carbon at source, through direct air capture or underground storage of sequestered carbon at offshore locations will play an important part in the energy transition, contributing to meeting global energy demands as we move towards net zero.

Injection of carbon into subsurface reservoirs means offshore infrastructure, at surface and subsea. It is essential for the sustainability of this sector to do this responsibly, with clean energy and low carbon operations.

All-electric subsea injection systems can be powered by marine renewable energy technology. Subsea 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 offshore CCUS sector. And just like subsea, topside supporting infrastructure can be fully electrified, integrated to offshore wind or other alternative fuel source.

To sustainably grow the CCUS sector, Verlume’s intelligent energy management and storage technologies allow the adoption of clean energy strategies for offshore infrastructure and operations. We work with our trusted partners and clients to deliver effective engineered solutions across multiple sectors, delivering energy wherever and whenever it is needed.

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Defence and Security

Climate change, energy and sustainability are becoming key areas of focus in the defence and security industries, with the sectors seeking energy solutions which mitigate environmental and climate impacts across complex missions and geographies.

Battlefield electrification requires a novel approach to power delivery, not least in the harsh marine and underwater environments. Energy storage and intelligent energy management are becoming increasingly important, strategic technologies in the drive to electrify fleets of vehicles and vessels.

Over-the-horizon communications and autonomous operations can reduce the need for personnel to be placed in harm’s way, whilst opening up new counter-threat and engagement strategies. By delivering power-on-demand, Verlume’s intelligent energy management and storage technologies are designed specifically for hard-to-electrify locations, particularly offshore and in the underwater battlespace.

Allowing for seabed recharging and data transfer to underwater robotics without the need to surface, or providing power to water column sensor networks, Verlume offers the capabilities and technologies necessary to build resilient and secure energy systems.

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Decommissioning

Over the coming decades, further energy assets across the globe will be decommissioned as they come to the end of their operational life. These assets must be decommissioned in a cost-efficient manner with consideration to environmental compliance.

Effective subsea monitoring techniques are essential to successful decommissioning campaigns. Knowing the status of the wellbore allows an operator to plan for all eventualities, but in many cases, access to data can be limited, or even impossible, once infrastructure starts to be removed.

Verlume’s battery storage technology can be used to provide power to downhole gauges once power to a wellsite has been removed. With intelligent energy management, effective and reliable offshore microgrids can be created for site monitoring activities, combining marine renewable energy and seabed battery storage to provide surface and seabed surveillance systems.

Our extensive experience in the subsea sector means that we understand the challenges associated with decommissioning. It’s a complex business – we can leverage our experience to work with partners on innovative decommissioning techniques and technologies.

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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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Ocean Science

The domain of ocean science and marine conservation focuses on sustainably managing precious ocean resources. To do so, the sector requires power management in harsh and hard-to-reach areas in order to power the equipment which helps researchers to better understand the ocean environment.

Seabed and surface sensor packages, along with underwater robotics and autonomous vehicles are important tools in the ocean science sector. Understanding how climate change is impacting the marine environment is essential; at the same time, seabed monitoring for seismic activity and tsunami early warning systems provides safety-critical barriers which can protect human life.

By providing power at hard-to-reach locations in the world’s oceans, Verlume’s intelligent energy management and storage technologies can open up a range of possibilities for oceanographers.

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