Having been involved since the inception of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney Scotland in 2001, and early wave developers previous to that, Xodus personnel and latterly Xodus have supported a wide range of technology developers, project developers and public sector organisations in both the tidal and wave energy industries.
MARINE ENERGY
ADVISORY
We uniquely offer technical, commercial and financial expertise combined with policy driven insights to deliver integrated solutions across the marine energy sector. We specialise in providing transaction and strategic advice to financial institutions and developers seeking to invest in offshore renewables.
PROJECT SUPPORT
We provide comprehensive advice throughout the entire project life cycle from origination to late life and decommissioning. Our services encompass all aspects of project work, including site selection, supply chain studies, screening / scoping, environmental impact assessment, tender preparation and offshore operations. Our deep understanding of development comes from our hands-on experience in the field.
ENGINEERING
We provide dedicated engineering services to the marine energy and wider energy transition sectors. Leveraging experience from across the Subsea 7 Group of companies we offer full life cycle engineering services from Concept, Pre-FEED, FEED through to Detailed Design, including project delivery and owners engineer support, delivering full construction and installation engineering support.
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Our multidisciplinary teams combine engineering excellence and commercial acumen with environmental stewardship allowing us to provide independent advice and expert support for consentable, buildable, and investable projects.
We provide an integrated, multi-disciplined approach to project development using custom tools with proven success. With in-house teams associated with metocean and geophysical/geotechnical analysis, environmental science, stakeholder management, supply chain, market insights, and technology, we can progress through the project development lifecycle in a transparent and auditable manner with few interfaces.
Our engineering and advisory teams supplement tried and tested approaches to project risk management and decision making to explore installation, operation and maintenance strategies which will support the investment decision. Our highly experienced environment team support throughout the project development lifecycle to ensure well informed consenting strategies, understand consenting risks and project timelines.
As a broad-based energy consultancy, we are routinely considering a full system approach looking at non-grid routes to market too, such as supply of energy to oil and gas, use of storage, and integration with hydrogen.
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
Our integrated teams provide ongoing environmental and regulatory compliance support in the discharge of consent conditions, implementation of monitoring strategies and the licencing and approval of project design changes or remedial actions.
Our digital product XAMIN helps us to help you understand and manage data associated with your projects.
Operational problems can result in low productivity and downtime. Our engineers can assist throughout the operations and maintenance phase, covering electrical & power systems, structures & materials, geotechnical & civils, naval architecture & floating systems, transport & installation, and analysis & design.
We are also experts in dynamic simulations enabling us to optimise control, solve operational problems and validate new designs. Our experts can create digital twins of systems that dynamically show and predict the performance of the plant. We can then assess the range of scenarios that are causing an operational challenge and test out a range of solutions and control parameters that will address the issues you have.
DECOMMISSIONING
We know what it takes to meet the statutory requirements of the Energy Act 2004, and our team assists project developers in the production of robust, regulator-ready Decommissioning Programmes that evolve with your project from consent to decommissioning. We have a multi-specialised team of scientists, engineers and consultants that can piece all the integrated issues together to outline the best decommissioning solution.
Our integrated decommissioning capability covers all aspects of decommissioning including subsea cables and structures, substations and onshore facilities.
With the offshore wave and tidal industries still in its infancy, it is important to bring our experience of decommissioning into the early phases of projects. We know that successful decommissioning is not just about ‘how’ to decommission, instead it is reliant on finding an approach to delivering success on all elements. Applying this upfront will always mean greater success at the end of the life of the asset.
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