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  31. <title>Exploring the Advantages of Offshore Wind Farms in the Energy Landscape.</title>
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  40. <p>The post <a href="https://www.attollo.com/exploring-the-advantages-of-offshore-wind-farms-in-the-energy-landscape/">Exploring the Advantages of Offshore Wind Farms in the Energy Landscape.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.attollo.com">ATTOLLO | Supporting a sustainable future.</a>.</p>
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  49. <h5><span style="font-size: calc(0px + 1.25rem + 0vw); letter-spacing: -0.025em;">In the pursuit of sustainable energy solutions, offshore wind farms have emerged as a beacon of hope, offering a multitude of advantages that propel us closer to a greener future. Attollo, a distinguished player in marine services, plays a pivotal role in supporting the development and operations of these remarkable offshore wind farms.</span><br></h5>
  50. <h4>Harvesting the Power of Nature<span style="color: #fdc800; font-size: calc(-0.166667px + 1.5rem + 0.028935vw); letter-spacing: -0.03em;">.</span></h4>
  51. <p>Offshore wind farms harness the immense power of the wind to generate clean and renewable electricity. Unlike traditional fossil fuels, wind energy produces zero greenhouse gas emissions, significantly reducing our carbon footprint and combatting the effects of climate change. Attollo&#8217;s commitment to environmental responsibility aligns perfectly with the mission of offshore wind farms, making them a key partner in this sustainable journey.</p>
  52. <h4>Maximising Energy Potential<span style="color: #fdc800; font-size: calc(-0.166667px + 1.5rem + 0.028935vw); letter-spacing: -0.03em;">.</span></h4>
  53. <p>One of the standout advantages of offshore wind farms is their ability to tap into stronger and more consistent wind resources found at sea. This allows for higher energy production compared to onshore wind turbines. Attollo&#8217;s expertise in marine services ensures the efficient installation and maintenance of offshore wind turbines, unlocking their maximum energy-generating potential.</p>
  54. <h4>Preserving Land and Ecosystems<span style="color: #fdc800; font-size: calc(-0.166667px + 1.5rem + 0.028935vw); letter-spacing: -0.03em;">.</span></h4>
  55. <p>Unlike conventional power plants, offshore wind farms don&#8217;t require vast stretches of land. This is especially valuable in densely populated areas where land availability is limited. By taking advantage of the expansive ocean, offshore wind farms preserve precious land resources, allowing for other sustainable developments and the protection of natural ecosystems.</p>
  56. <h4>Reducing Visual and Noise Impact<span style="color: #fdc800; font-size: calc(-0.166667px + 1.5rem + 0.028935vw); letter-spacing: -0.03em;">.</span></h4>
  57. <p>Offshore wind farms have the added advantage of being located far from populated areas, minimizing visual and noise impacts on communities. Attollo&#8217;s meticulous planning and execution in offshore wind projects ensure that turbines are strategically positioned to strike a balance between energy production and minimizing any potential visual or noise disturbance.</p>
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  59. <p>The development and operation of offshore wind farms create a ripple effect of economic benefits. From manufacturing and construction to maintenance and support services, a wide array of job opportunities are generated, invigorating local economies and communities. Attollo&#8217;s involvement in marine services adds to this economic growth by providing skilled labor and specialised vessels for these projects.</p>
  60. <h4>Enhancing Energy Security<span style="color: #fdc800; font-size: calc(-0.166667px + 1.5rem + 0.028935vw); letter-spacing: -0.03em;">.</span></h4>
  61. <p><span style="font-size: calc(-0.016667px + 1rem + 0.002894vw);">Offshore wind farms contribute to diversifying our energy sources, reducing dependence on fossil fuels and imported energy. This increased energy security stabilizes supply and helps guard against price volatility in the energy market. Attollo&#8217;s commitment to supporting offshore wind projects enhances this energy security by ensuring the efficient operation and maintenance of these vital energy sources.</span></p>
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  63. <p><span style="font-size: calc(-0.016667px + 1rem + 0.002894vw);">Offshore wind farms stand as a testament to the limitless potential of harnessing nature&#8217;s resources for our energy needs. Attollo&#8217;s unwavering dedication to marine services aligns harmoniously with the benefits of offshore wind farms, ensuring that these projects thrive and flourish. With the power to generate clean electricity, preserve land, and create economic opportunities, offshore wind farms, with Attollo&#8217;s support, are lighting the way to a brighter, more sustainable future.</span></p> </div>
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  92. <title>Zero Emissions Shipping: Tackling Climate Change in the Maritime and Offshore Sectors</title>
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  96. <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2021 13:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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  110. <p><strong>Global warming is an existential issue for the world. The international shipping industry is one of the leading causes of carbon emissions and fuel-related pollution in the world. Are there earth-friendly alternatives? </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-pollution">Data released by the maritime industry</a> shows that a mere 15 of the world’s largest ships are equal in polluting effects all the cars on earth. Low-grade diesel used by the industry has 2000 times the sulphur content of diesel cars in the US and Europe. Shipping accounts for 3% of the globe’s CO2 emissions and one-quarter of emissions from global transportation, according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO).</p><p>Before 2018, the polluting effects of shipping had been ignored because there was <a href="https://theconversation.com/cargo-ships-are-emitting-boatloads-of-carbon-and-nobody-wants-to-take-the-blame-108731">no easy way to regulate</a> a global, complex industry via national governments. However, in 2018, <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/marine/why-the-shipping-industry-is-betting-big-on-ammonia">delegates to the IMO agreed</a> to a 50% emissions cut from 2008 levels by 2050.</p><p>We need, however, to balance human consumption needs with the planet’s survival. <a href="https://www.ics-shipping.org/shipping-fact/shipping-and-world-trade-driving-prosperity/">Eighty percent of imports and exports by volume</a> from the European Union, one of the world&#8217;s largest trading areas, are transported by cargo ship, and 11 billion tonnes of goods are transported worldwide each year.</p><p>We are dependent on shipping when it comes to feeding and catering for the human population. But is there a way of tackling CO2 emissions and fuel-related pollution in offshore shipping by using cleaner alternatives?</p><p>In this article, we consider the options currently on the horizon for zero emissions shipping.</p><p><em>Liquified natural gas (LNG)</em></p><p>LNG is a relatively available, cleaner and cheap fuel for shipping, emitting less carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxides and sulphur oxides than diesel. It is the most widely used alternative to diesel in the industry, with plenty of investment in the pipeline, although it only accounts for 3% of ship fuel consumption.</p><p>However, recent studies,<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01022020/shipping-lines-liquefied-natural-gas-methane-leaks/"> for example by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)</a>, showed that methane – the main component of natural gas &#8211; is 30 times a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and ships regularly emit around 3.7% of unburned fuel into the atmosphere. While it is popular with fossil fuel companies, it doesn&#8217;t appear to be a truly green alternative. Indeed, Nigel Topping, the UK’s High-Level Climate Action Champion on behalf of the UN climate conference COP26, <a href="https://shippingwatch.com/suppliers/article12925875.ece">called LNG a ‘dead-end’ fuel</a> and said ammonia and hydrogen (see next sections) were the “most promising fuels.” Liquid petroleum gas (LPG), which combines butane and propane, <a href="https://ship.nridigital.com/ship_mar21/lpg_container_ships">doesn&#8217;t have the same emissions problems as LNG.</a></p><p><em>Hydrogen</em></p><p>The ICCT has <a href="https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/hydrogen-can-power-virtually-all-container-ships-crossing-the-pacific/2-1-767073">estimated</a> that 99% of containerships crossing the Pacific could be powered by liquid hydrogen. To be considered green or clean, hydrogen has to be produced by electrolysis (using an electric current to split water molecules), though blue hydrogen – created from steam reforming – also has some green credentials. The <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201127-how-hydrogen-fuel-could-decarbonise-shipping">first ship to use hydrogen</a> as a hybrid fuel was Hydroville, a Belgium Kruibeke to Antwerp ferry.</p><p>Hydrogen is perhaps the easiest fuel to install, requiring the retrofitting of ships with hydrogen fuel cells. There is also a hydrogen-producing infrastructure – 70 million tonnes are produced for industrial use every year. It has been estimated to have at least 60% efficiency as a fuel. The technology is quiet and can be scaled for larger ships, and it only releases water vapour and oxygen, reducing airborne pollution.</p><p>The downsides are flammability (though storage solutions can offset this), the space needed for the fuel cells, and the cost of producing green hydrogen. The <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/hydrogen-key-decarbonizing-global-shipping-industry">ICCT argues that</a> government funding is necessary to help the transition towards zero emissions shipping and fund R&amp;D.</p><p>According to a Global Maritime Forum study, out of 106 clean fuel projects for zero emissions shipping, nearly half were focusing on hydrogen.</p><p><em>Ammonia</em></p><p>Another option <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/marine/why-the-shipping-industry-is-betting-big-on-ammonia">on the table is ammonia</a>. It emits no carbon dioxide and has widespread availability, but it can also be made using renewable energy. It can be used by fuel cells and internal combustion engines, doesn&#8217;t need the high-pressure tanks or cryogenic dewars that hydrogen requires, and is potentially low-cost once ships have been converted. Remarkably, ammonia has ten times the energy capacity of a lithium-ion battery.</p><p>For these reasons, ammonia has generated a lot of interest in the shipping industry. However, as yet, no vessels are equipped to use ammonia, and there has no large-scale infrastructure to produce it in a carbon-neutral way. <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/energy/news/2020/jan/decarbonisation-shipping-will-take-place-land-well-sea">It’s been estimated</a> it will cost £1.5 trillion to achieve the IMO’s emissions target.</p><p>However, there are a few projects underway. For example, in 2024, a ship called Viking Energy, owned by the Norwegian company Equinor, will be the first to be powered by green ammonia. Global consultancy <a href="https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/maritime-fuel-mix-could-be-25-ammonia-by-2050/">DNV predicts</a> that ammonia could account for 25% of maritime fuel by 2050.</p><p><em>Electric </em></p><p>Just as electric cars are becoming more mainstream, there is an option for ships to run on electric batteries solely or in a hybrid form. A <a href="https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/discoveries/electrified-ships/">report by Infineon</a> says that 80% of ocean-going vessels have been using a diesel-electric transmission system to enable more efficient use of diesel. And the possibilities exist to use batteries in a hybrid system. Rolls Royce, for example, has <a href="https://safety4sea.com/rolls-royce-introduces-new-battery-system-for-ships/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=bc5858f51d16732c06ac680f9f13d8316b2d760d-1624185252-0-ASVFRKNHo4NHYn0y6k-0YVEk_LpJTfEPzMCwkSeUjdrFzlk6WsGXw86nVhiNFGQo71aKyJV90Pi0CYpYVYv6OCuEewbRvmhpJ0P1n2DH7EIvlimEvyYn_e7ShRfLei8Nnui2iKhzjocaealcBojj95jLKb-OuHJwC3hJaS6Tm7-YqL9OJBS64qMknZnVesHe06-z6XJK6fAW3QGdulDh2erexT6lI8vW7z_SIp3IdNPZJkGcfGgqMt3HWeYcDxqizllr3L63NHKTPFeVQsiziGKW44chHR3gH6qPFvCkF7tb5RHFrfUio7tJMwCVFYzMFQMKj7Fap_4k4VWqSkdL_viceSDMvEh4ZPywhftsVz5gkarmIxrlihAvw-ZfKKsOvjc03kMWwYEBugA4N07rA1YrnD1z3KsEhQR_yWGHzWG3DdVw2Ew6dgCalNXKs0KylLo1tfgTduQesAXTd4lhTBs">launched a new and scalable ‘SAVe Energy’ lithium-ion battery</a> for ships that can be combined with LNG or diesel.</p><p>However, the challenges are scalability, capacity and infrastructure. Batteries still have too low an energy density for the scale and distance needed by ships, and shoreside recharging points are still rare. China launched the first fully electric container ship for inland waterways, which only has enough charge for up to 80km.</p><p>For smaller vessels, solar power is also an option. The Tûranor PlanetSolar was one of the first solar-powered boats to sail around the world in 2012.</p><p><em>Biofuels</em></p><p>Biofuels are another alternative, also being investigated for on-land industry and as a replacement for coal without significant retrofitting. Biofuels are made from plant material and waste, are low sulphur, and, in theory, are capable of replacing fossil fuels for zero emissions shipping. However, retrofitting is needed. Biofuels are expensive, and, as yet, there is little capacity for producing replacement fuels for the entire shipping fleet. While there are concerns that the biofuels compete with food production, which would be environmentally and socially detrimental, new methods are emerging which avoid this conundrum, such as <a href="https://www.biomedcentral.com/about/press-centre/science-press-releases/30-01-2015">‘solid state fermentation’</a>.</p><p>A report by the European Technology and Innovation Platform said that, because of its limitations, the “market entry for biofuels in the marine sector is, therefore, most favourable onboard smaller vessels for coastal waters or use as auxiliary ultra-low sulphur fuel in ports.&#8221;</p><p>In 2019, a large A.P. Moller – Maersk Triple-E vessel <a href="https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2019/03/22/maersk-partners-with-global-companies-to-trial-biofuel">sailed 25,000 nautical miles</a> on a 20% biofuel blend from used cooking oil in a pilot supported by Dutch multinationals Friesland Campina, Heineken, Philips, DSM, Shell and Unilever. The companies revealed that the <a href="https://bioenergyinternational.com/storage-logistics/mette-maersk-maritime-biofuel-pilot-a-resounding-success">pilot was a success</a>, accounting for 1500 tonnes reduction in carbon emissions and a 20-tonne reduction in sulphur emissions.</p><p>As one of the world&#8217;s major carbon emitters, shipping needs to find clean fuels to meet, or even better, exceed the IMO target. We&#8217;ve shown that there a range of viable alternative fuel options. Now we need the energy and will to tackle climate change and fight for a better, greener future.</p><p>For more information, contact:</p><p><a href="mailto:info@attollo.com"><strong>info@attollo.com</strong></a></p><p><strong>Share this insight</strong></p> </div>
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  129. <p>The post <a href="https://www.attollo.com/zero-emissions-shipping-tackling-climate-change-in-the-maritime-and-offshore-sectors/">Zero Emissions Shipping: Tackling Climate Change in the Maritime and Offshore Sectors</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.attollo.com">ATTOLLO | Supporting a sustainable future.</a>.</p>
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  136. <title>The power of jackup barges and liftboats for well plug and abandonment (P&#038;A) in late life offshore oil and gas field activity</title>
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  140. <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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  145. <p>The post <a href="https://www.attollo.com/the-power-of-jackup-barges-and-liftboats-for-well-plug-and-abandonment-pa-in-late-life-offshore-oil-and-gas-field-activity/">The power of jackup barges and liftboats for well plug and abandonment (P&#038;A) in late life offshore oil and gas field activity</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.attollo.com">ATTOLLO | Supporting a sustainable future.</a>.</p>
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  155. <h5>Oil &amp; Gas UK estimates suggest £17 billion will be spent on decommissioning in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) between now and 2025. With P&amp;A accounting for the lion’s share of costs, rigless approaches, enabled by vessels, can help the sector slash the decommissioning bill.</h5>
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  157. <h4><strong>Time is money<span class="color">.</span> </strong></h4>
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  159. <p>When further economic recovery of mature or aging wells in offshore oil and gas fields is no longer possible, they need to be permanently plugged and abandoned as part of decommissioning activity.</p>
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  161. <p>P&amp;A entails sealing wells to prevent leakage of environmentally harmful hydrocarbons and often removing all infrastructure on the seabed.</p>
  162.  
  163. <p>P&amp;A work is both costly and time-consuming. <a href="https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/">The UK Oil and Gas Authority</a> has found that well P&amp;A represents 48% of the total cost of UKCS decommissioning.</p>
  164.  
  165. <p>Over the next several decades decommissioning will potentially cost Europe’s oil and gas producing countries, such as the UK, Norway and the Netherlands, several hundred billion euros, which taxpayers in these countries will be paying the brunt of.</p>
  166.  
  167. <p>Traditionally, drilling or workover rigs have been deployed to carry out P&amp;A.</p>
  168.  
  169. <p>According to Martin Straume, P&amp;A team leader at <a href="https://akerbp.com/en/">Aker BP</a>, moving to rigless P&amp;A could achieve 50% in cost savings compared with conventional techniques.</p>
  170.  
  171. <h4><strong>Improving understanding of well condition<span class="color">.</span> </strong></h4>
  172.  
  173. <p>A key challenge facing operators and contractors planning P&amp;A campaigns is understanding the state of wells, especially the integrity of cement bonding. If this is compromised it can require costly intervention such as milling casings that cannot be pulled.</p>
  174.  
  175. <p>Cement bond logging (CBL) enables analysis of the cement bond. CBL can simplify and de-risk P&amp;A campaigns by removing complex steps to check cement bond integrity. In many cases CBL can be done by wireline interventions, using jackup barges and lift boats.</p>
  176.  
  177. <p>Today, vessel-enabled services, such as wireline and coiled tubing, can often carry out all phase two P&amp;A steps, whereby the permanent barriers are set across the well. Worked examples of this have been seen where coiled tubing has been used to set cement across one or two annuli, where suitable cement bond integrity to the formation has been deemed acceptable.</p>
  178.  
  179. <h4><strong>Minimising milling<span class="color">.</span> </strong></h4>
  180.  
  181. <p>When P&amp;A has to involve casing milling it is costly, time-consuming and usually involves the usage of a drilling rig.</p>
  182.  
  183. <p>In conventional P&amp;A carried out from a rig, casing milling is required when the integrity of the cement bond behind the casing is compromised. The P&amp;A work entails milling out the casing, as well as the cement to set a proper plug.</p>
  184.  
  185. <p>P&amp;A campaigns planned and conducted with the aim of reducing and eliminating casing milling creates a growth opportunity for barges and jackup vessels as a rig is no longer required. </p>
  186.  
  187. <p>Alternative approaches, such as perforation wash and cement and milling without swarf-to-surface further reduce the requirement for a full-scale drilling rig.</p>
  188.  
  189. <h4><strong>Newer developments<span class="color">.</span> </strong></h4>
  190.  
  191. <p>Rigless P&amp;A covers various techniques for doing P&amp;A, some which are commercially deployed today and others which are more advanced. Jackup vessels and barges are the perfect partner for supporting these emerging alternative approaches, which in many cases are taking a fresh, radical look at well abandonment.</p>
  192.  
  193. <p>Examples include Norwegian start-up Well-Set. The Stavangar-based company is developing a process that uses magnetorheological (MR) cement to form a barrier in an annular space.</p>
  194.  
  195. <p>The MR cement is suspended between two magnetic fields until the cement sets and allows for casing to be plugged using rigless techniques like wireline or coiled tubing. Cutting and pulling casing is no longer required.</p>
  196.  
  197. <p>Well-Set is also developing a technology that allows the abandonment barrier to be verified by pressure testing from below. This allows for a mechanical base for an abandonment barrier, made from cement, resin, or thermite materials, to be set inside the casing or liner and permanent abandonment plugs set on top.</p>
  198.  
  199. <p><a href="https://www.netzerotc.com/">The Oil &amp; Gas Technology Centre (OGTC)</a> in Scotland supports developments and advances in technology that can simplify P&amp;A, helping the industry to move away from heavy interventions, such as milling, to reduce decommissioning costs. In some cases techniques being supported can be done from a vessel.</p>
  200.  
  201. <p>Recently funded projects include work by <a href="https://www.bakerhughes.com/">Baker Hughes (BHGE)</a> to develop a technique for CBL through multiple casing strings, improving on current systems that deliver logging behind one casing or tubular, to cut the cost and time associated with removing casing to verify barrier integrity.</p>
  202.  
  203. <p>OGTC also funded a project with <a href="https://www.bisn.com/">BiSN</a> to verify the company’s Wel-Lok M2M technology, which uses a modified thermite heater to melt bismuth-based alloys, to form a permanent barrier. Bismuth plugs can be deployed on wireline without the need to remove tubing. More recently, a field-trial of the Wel-Lok M2M, deployed via E-line, has been completed by BiSN in collaboration with Altus Intervention in a well owned by Aker BP in the Norwegian North Sea.</p>
  204.  
  205. <p><a href="https://www.spirit-energy.com/">Spirit Energy</a> has also been field testing an alternative plugging solution based on thermite reaction, developed by Norway’s Interwell. The technology, which uses thermite and a controlled chemical reaction in the well rather than the traditional cement plug, has been trialled in onshore wells in Canada and, more recently, in the UK, supported by Spirit and the OGTC.</p>
  206.  
  207. <p>The ultimate goal is for Interwell is developing its system for offshore P&amp;A using a thermite reaction to create plugs via an E-Line, which can be done from a vessel.</p>
  208.  
  209. <p>If Rigless P&amp;A is a ‘Holy Grail’ for the industry in terms of simplifying decommissioning and reducing costs, in reality it covers a range of approaches, some commercially mature and others still, undergoing trials, but which are representative of the cutting edge of what is possible.</p>
  210.  
  211. <p>While field trials in many cases will use a fixed rig, the ultimate step is to do away with the rig where possible, reducing associated costs. However, this can overlook the other benefits that using vessels for P&amp;A campaigns can provide.</p>
  212.  
  213. <h4><br /><strong>Benefits<span class="color">.</span> </strong></h4>
  214.  
  215. <ul>
  216. <li><strong>Increased wrench time:</strong> Liftboats and jackups can transfer crews to platforms and remain offshore for as long as required minimising time spent transferring crew.<br /><br /></li>
  217. <li><strong>Agility and flexibility:</strong> Liftboats and jackup vessels are much more agile than moving rigs around to different sites and can take advantages of periods between bad weather which prevent rigs being prepared, towed and re-sited at other locations.<br /><br /></li>
  218. <li><strong>Supporting accelerated learning:</strong> Having the same teams of crews and personnel work on a P&amp;A campaign, not only increases wrench time among cross-skilled crews but also supports an accelerated learning curve among teams, who can complete individual well tasks before moving on to the next one quickly, refining their approach each time.<br /><br /></li>
  219. <li><strong>Swiss Army Knife toolkit:</strong> Barges support and enable a range of different techniques for the various stages and aspects of well P&amp;A, for example, using wireline for well kill and deep-set plug phases, as well as cementing. These vessels also have onboard capacity to store different equipment items, as opposed to waiting for equipment to be delivered from shore, including storage facilities for various fluids needed to carry out techniques such as cementing.  </li>
  220. </ul>
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  277. <p>Every company has a culture, it manifests in a multitude of ways, from our behaviours to our beliefs. Culture is in all that we do – our interactions, our relationships, what we expect from our company and what our company expects from us. Cementing ours in a culture deck seemed the natural next step. It’s been a process very much driven by our team, because they know it best. We see our culture deck as one of our most important assets and we believe it helps keep us focused and on track.</p>
  278.  
  279. <p>After our (recent) rebrand, we figured the timing couldn’t be better to make it public and clarify who we are, so that we remain transparent (which happens to be one of our core values) and answerable to our clients and our teammates.</p>
  280.  
  281. <p><strong>Key points:</strong></p>
  282.  
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  284. <li>Our culture: we believe <strong>T</strong>ogether. <strong>E</strong>veryone. <strong>A</strong>chieves. <strong>M</strong>ore. We are the #ATeam.</li>
  285. <li>Our manifesto, vision and mission – we are disrupters, we believe that to effect change, we need to be bold; we want to create a tomorrow better than today, using cutting edge technology.</li>
  286. <li>Our core values – trust, transparency, courage, passion, resourcefulness, humility. We operate with trust and integrity, no matter what. And are always driven by innovation.</li>
  287. <li>Our company characteristics – consistency, simplicity, sustainability, relationships, impact, innovation, safety. We think big and bold. We take risks, knowing they are critical to success. Sustainability is at the heart of what we do.</li>
  288. <li>Failure is ok, as long as we’re ‘failing forward’, safe, and learn from our experiences. There are unknowns along the way. We’re always growing and developing our personal skill sets.</li>
  289. <li>Employee wellness is key. We take holidays, we log off, we come back refreshed.</li>
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  345. <h5>For operators the mature UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) presents challenges but also economic opportunities that liftboats and jackup barges can help to exploit.</h5>
  346.  
  347. <h4><strong>Introduction<span class="color">.</span></strong></h4>
  348.  
  349. <p>Unlocking the remaining potential of the mature UKCS requires maximising recovery not just from newer but mature and aging wells, in order to reduce costs across the well’s life. Maximising the economic recovery of maturing wells potentially offsets later life operational expenditure costs by ensuring all feasible hydrocarbons are extracted.</p>
  350.  
  351. <p>However, in reality, this means operating assets and equipment to extract decreasing volumes of hydrocarbons while increasing inspection, certification and fabric maintenance work to ensure that decades-old offshore structures continue to be fit for purpose.</p>
  352.  
  353. <p>For the UK oil and gas industry, decommissioning represents perhaps the largest emerging subsector within the UKCS. Since plug and abandonment (P&amp;A) accounts for the largest portion of costs, there is significant opportunity to reduce this, in line with the UK Government’s 35% target. Delivering the most efficient late life operations is an essential step to reduce the tax burden associated with decommissioning projects.</p>
  354.  
  355. <h4><strong>Opportunities for jackup barges and liftboats in mature fields<span class="color">.</span> </strong></h4>
  356.  
  357. <p>In mature oil and gas fields barges can be deployed across three key activities: maximising economic recovery of late-life wells, asset maintenance, P&amp;A and decommissioning.</p>
  358.  
  359. <p>A major advantage of these specialist vessels is flexibility. To use the Swiss Army Knife analogy, a single vessel can carry the personnel, equipment and storage capacity required for multiple operations and services to optimise the oil field. These can be executed standalone, or as simultaneous operations (SIMOPS).</p>
  360.  
  361. <ol type="1">
  362. <li>Maximising economic recovery of late-life wells</li>
  363. </ol>
  364.  
  365. <p>Late life wells typically require workover activity, which can span several intervention techniques or services, such as coiled tubing and wireline, which can all be done from specialist barges.</p>
  366.  
  367. <p>One vessel can carry a wide range of equipment and tools for carrying out the most effective and cost-efficient form of extraction that each well demands. Examples range from setting plugs for water shut off, re-perforation, scale removal, de-liquification and velocity strings. In each case these can be done by coiled tubing, or by wireline, in the case of water shut off. All are proven late life techniques to maximise hydrocarbon recovery.</p>
  368.  
  369. <ul>
  370. <li>Platform/rig fabric maintenance</li>
  371. </ul>
  372.  
  373. <p>Older platforms entail inspections, certification and fabric maintenance with greater frequency, to ensure they are in good working order and are safe for their full operational lifetime.   </p>
  374.  
  375. <p>Typically helicopters will fly in personnel to work on rigs. Trips back and forth to the site, notwithstanding adverse weather, can impact ‘wrench time’, which is the actual hours spent on a specific activity or job.</p>
  376.  
  377. <p>Liftboats and jackups can transfer crews to platforms and remain offshore for as long as required, allowing well-rested personnel walk-to-work access to platforms, providing a safer environment for carrying out maintenance schedules and tasks.</p>
  378.  
  379. <p>Wrench time is optimised as less time is spent transferring crew. Because these vessels are more resilient to severe weather, time spent waiting for periods of good weather is kept to a minimum.</p>
  380.  
  381. <ul>
  382. <li>P&amp;A and decommissioning</li>
  383. </ul>
  384.  
  385. <p>As with late life well enhancement, barges support and enable a range of different techniques for the various stages and aspects of well P&amp;A, for example, using wireline for well kill and deep-set plug phases, as well as cementing, and casing/tubing removal.</p>
  386.  
  387. <p>In growing circumstances, increasingly simplified P&amp;A operations have enabled the industry to execute all stages of abandonment without the need for a drilling rig.</p>
  388.  
  389. <h4><strong>Advantages of jackup barges and liftboats<span class="color">.</span> </strong></h4>
  390.  
  391. <p>Jackup barges and liftboats reduce commercial risk through increased wrench time, but they have several other advantages too.</p>
  392.  
  393. <p>These types of offshore vessels are comparatively much more agile than moving rigs around to different sites. They can take advantages of periods between bad weather which prevent rigs being prepared, towed and re-sited at other locations.</p>
  394.  
  395. <p>Specialist barges maximise uptime in offshore environments, which are in their nature challenging because they are often remote and far from shore and are subject to adverse weather outside of a few calm periods in the summer.</p>
  396.  
  397. <p>Significant commercial advantage can be gained by having the same teams of crews and personnel work on a campaign of well intervention, maintenance or P&amp;A. By increasing wrench time among cross-skilled crews, barges enable activity to be completed more rapidly.</p>
  398.  
  399. <p>Working through a campaign of several dozen wells using rigs could take many months to complete, punctuated by days, or even weeks, between each well, quickly stacking up costs such as equipment and crew hire, which cannot be deployed during non-productive time.</p>
  400.  
  401. <p>Using a barge supports an accelerated learning curve among teams, who can complete individual well tasks before moving on to the next one quickly, refining their approach each time. Such approaches have resulted in 40% reduction time for P&amp;A projects.</p>
  402.  
  403. <p>As well as providing a Swiss Army Knife approach to carrying out different offshore activities, barges optimise campaign efficiency and expediency with onboard capacity to store different equipment items, as opposed to waiting for equipment to be delivered from shore. These vessels also have storage facilities for various fluids needed to carry out techniques such as cementing and pipeline flushing.   </p>
  404.  
  405. <h4><strong>How barges support health and safety</strong><span class="color">.</span></h4>
  406. <p>Liftboats and jackup barges support a walk-to-work approach for personnel. Teams reside on location in extensive and well catered for accommodation. In addition, 24 hour shifts can be accommodated ensuring maximum project efficiency.</p>
  407. <p>The alternative, being transferred at dawn to site from shore via helicopter limits wrench time and additionally burdens personnel with more duress from travelling.</p>
  408. <p>Barges provide the opportunity for the same personnel to work together offshore, which fosters a safer working culture, as team members become familiar with each other and support each other in carrying out tasks within campaigns.</p>
  409.  
  410. <h4><strong>Conclusion<span class="color">.</span> </strong></h4>
  411.  
  412. <p>Maximising late life well economic recovery, maintenance of offshore structures and P&amp;A activity is an important part of today’s operating realities.</p>
  413.  
  414. <p>The increasingly cost-sensitive environment in which today’s offshore oil and gas industry operates in demands alternative approaches and concepts.</p>
  415.  
  416. <p>Specialist barges support combined operations, such as maintenance and well P&amp;A, for example. But maximising the full value that these vessels can offer requires a campaign-based and strategic approach to operating late-life assets found in the mature UKCS and SNS in order to maximize asset utilisation while contributing most value to the oilfield.</p>
  417.  
  418. <p>Such approaches require multi-operator collaboration, to identify wells with sufficient hydrocarbons for extraction, plus those that require P&amp;A, as well as maintenance work required by rigs and platforms and planning these activities, using data from multiple sources, such as weather forecasting, maintenance schedules and rotas.</p>
  419.  
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  421.  
  422. <p>For more information, contact:</p>
  423.  
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  455. <link>https://www.attollo.com/clean-vessels-time-for-shipping-to-clean-up-its-act/</link>
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  458. <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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  473. <h5>New IMO regulations and other initiatives are igniting demand for alternative fuels and energy efficient vessels designs in offshore energy.</h5>
  474. <p>Shipping and seagoing vessels account for around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions with the amount forecast to rise yearly, as shipping and vessels traffic increases on seas and oceans.</p>
  475. <p>The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has passed legislation and brokered initiatives to decarbonise vessel activity and curb sulphur dioxide (SOx) and other pollutants that are produced and emitted when heavy fuel oil is combusted in vessel engines.</p>
  476. <p>On 1 January 2020 the IMO set a limit for sulphur of 0.50% mass by mass in fuel oil used on board ships, operating outside designated emission control areas.</p>
  477. <p>However, the Clean Shipping Coalition thinks more can, and should be done, pointing out that the maritime industry is one of the few in the global economy without sector-specific emissions reduction measures.</p>
  478. <p>That said, IMO regulations and relevant EU directives have helped spur demand for new vessel designs that reduce fuel consumption, not to mention innovation in cleaner fuel alternatives, as well as efforts to increase the use of electrification to meet vessel power requirements.  </p>
  479. <p>Simultaneously, vessels under construction are being fitted with exhaust filtering systems, to clean up emissions in compliance with regulations.</p>
  480. <p>DNV GL says that while environmental and price challenges are driving the interest in alternative vessel fuels, LNG, liquified petroleum gas (LPG), methanol, biofuel and hydrogen are the most promising candidates. Among these, international regulations are already in place for LNG, while the certification and standards agency has recently drawn up new class rules and a class notation for using LPG as fuel in anticipation of growing industry interest.</p>
  481. <p>LNG is the fossil fuel that produces the least amount of carbon dioxide and is regarded as a ‘bridging fuel’ to help the industry begin to meet the IMO’s target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050. However, methanol and hydrogen are the cleanest when produced from renewable electricity, in the case of hydrogen (green hydrogen) and biomass in the case of methanol.</p>
  482. <h4>Natural gas – a bridging fuel for clean up vessel emissions<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  483. <p>According to DNV GL, LNG is the best fuel for one or two vessel generations. “The pathway to carbon neutral fuels starts with gas. It is important to act now and not to wait for the ‘perfect’ fuel,” said <a href="https://www.dnvgl.com/news/dnv-gl-london-press-briefing-gas-as-fuel-safety-and-big-data-hot-topics-168513">DNV GL maritime</a> CEO Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen at an event in London earlier this year.</p>
  484. <p>To reach IMO’s 2050 target the efficiency of every single vessel and the whole maritime supply chain needs to be further increased, said Ørbeck-Nilssen.</p>
  485. <p>According to DNV GL more than 385 LNG-powered vessels are in operation and on order globally. However, lack of infrastructure remains an obstacle to widespread uptake of LNG as a bunker fuel.</p>
  486. <p>Though a significant number in the existing fleet are ferries operating regionally, shipyard order books “demonstrate a growing specialisation and a trend towards larger ships such as oil and chemical tankers, container ships and cruise liners,” according to Shell.</p>
  487. <p>Walk-to-work vessels have been some of the first types used by the oil and gas industry to switch to cleaner fuel. One of the first is the Kroonborg, which had initially been deployed after naming in 2015 to work for NAM and Shell UK under a long-term charter. The Conoship-designed vessel uses natural gas-to-liquid to reduce emissions.</p>
  488. <p>In an <a href="https://www.shell.de/medien/shell-publikationen/shell-lng-studie/_jcr_content/par/toptasks.stream/1570447648817/3cb7ff696a24326140f5b19765408059c494ca88/lng-study-uk-18092019-einzelseiten.pdf">LNG study</a> published in 2019, Shell also found that interest in using LNG as a fuel is growing, particularly in the short-sea and special-purpose shipping sector, including orders for offshore installation vessels, research and coast guard vessels, dredgers, fishing boats, and tug boats.</p>
  489. <p>Shell, which produces LNG in addition to providing and using LNG bunkering services, is likely the biggest user of LNG as a marine fuel for its barges and platform supply vessels.</p>
  490. <p>However Attollo’s position aligns with the <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/04/15/charting-a-course-for-decarbonizing-maritime-transport">World Bank</a> that LNG as a transition fuel should be avoided.</p>
  491. <p>DNV GL also found orders for battery-powered vessels increased sharply in 2019, with a total of 390 battery-powered vessels in operation or on order globally, though they tend to be smaller craft, such as passenger ferries, and mainly operate in northern Europe.</p>
  492. <p>In the offshore wind industry, which requires various types of vessels, ranging from the very largest wind turbine transfer and installation vessels (jack-ups), support vessels and crew transfer vessels (CTVs), vessel owners and designers are meeting the brief when it comes to cleaner and more energy-efficient vessels.</p>
  493. <h4>Vessels under construction are being fitted with exhaust filtering systems, to clean up emissions in compliance with regulations.</h4>
  494. <h4>Next generation crew transfer vessels<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  495. <p>The UK Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult led a project with industry in 2019 focused on next generation CTVs and service operation vessels (SOVs). Fuel costs are often the second highest operational expenditure. Meanwhile operations and maintenance (O&amp;M) activity, which relies heavily on these types of vessels transporting technicians and other personnel to offshore wind sites and providing their accommodation, contribute to around 20% of the levelised cost of energy (LCoE) of offshore wind. Low-carbon fuels not only reduce emissions but offer an opportunity to reduce operational costs of CTVs and SOVs, helping reduce offshore wind LCoE.</p>
  496. <p>Chartwell Marine and Seaspeed Marine Consulting, CWind, Robert Allan Limited, and Windcat Workboats and CMB Technologies, are the recent recipients of funding from the Carbon Trust to support the commercialisation of fuel-efficient and cleaner CTVs. The work is expected to conclude at the end of 2020.</p>
  497. <p>Chartwell Marine and Seaspeed Marine Consulting are completing a study into the development of a hybrid diesel/electric outboard CTV using a high freeboard containing two diesel and two electric outboard engines, not previously used on CTVs.</p>
  498. <p>CWind is designing a prototype CTV based on a hybrid diesel/electric drivetrain with proven surface effect ship technology.</p>
  499. <p>Robert Allan is completing a study for a methanol/electric hybrid CTV while Windcat Workboats and CMB Technologies have come up with a prototype powered by a hydrogen-diesel co-combustion engine. The Hydrocat 1 will be capable of using green hydrogen as fuel.</p>
  500. <h4>Cleaner, greener vessels in offshore wind:</h4>
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  502. <li>Damen has developed a new offshore support vessel OSV for offshore wind and the wider offshore energy sector. The 9020 can optionally be delivered to operate on green methanol, produced from biological waste streams to reduce well-to-propeller carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 70%. A battery supports the diesel generators on board to cut fuel consumption and emissions.</li>
  503. <li>DEME Offshore is building its first SOV, which will be chartered by Siemens Gamesa for work at Belgian offshore wind farms. The 60-metre SOV will feature a small waterplane area twin hull, which can help reduce fuel consumption by up to 50% compared with a monohull SOV.</li>
  504. <li>In 2019, Jan De Nul ordered two offshore installation vessels, Voltaire and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJyKYDMmmiE">Les Alizés</a>, capable of transporting and installing the largest offshore wind turbines, with capacities of 10MW and upwards. <br />Les Alizés, which will be ready in 2022, is a floating installation crane vessel able to install wind farms in deeper waters. Her 5000-tonne crane also makes the vessel suitable for decommissioning offshore oil and gas platforms.<br />Drawing on its hydraulic engineering experience, Jan De Nul Group is equipping Les Alizés and Voltaire with an exhaust gas filtering technology in compliance with the European EURO STAGE V guidelines. <br />The dual exhaust filter system removes up to 99% of nanoparticles from emissions, followed by selective catalytic reduction system for nitric oxide (NOx) removal. As a result, Les Alizés and the Voltaire will be the first seaworthy installation vessel that meet Ultra-Low Emission Vessel (ULEv) criteria.</li>
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  506. <p>Les Alizés will also have a Cleanship NDO7 label and a Green Passport EU label. The Cleanship label confirms that the vessel minimises wastewater and other residual waste.</p>
  507. <p>The Green Passport label means that all materials and hazardous substances are mapped out during the construction phase, to facilitate the recycling of the vessel when decommissioned. Both vessels are financed by a green loan.</p>
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  558. <h4>How Europe’s hydrocarbon economies are laying the groundwork for a green hydrogen industry.</h4>
  559. <h5>Green hydrogen has caught the attention of governments, policymakers, the energy sector and hydrocarbon industry, as way to decarbonise heat and transportation sectors, as well as industries such as steel production.</h5>
  560. <p>Hydrogen is a versatile gas, but current production is fossil fuel based. Brown hydrogen comes from gasification (coal or lignite). Grey hydrogen is produced from steam methane reformation (SMR). Blue hydrogen is obtained when pairing SMR with carbon capture and storage (CCS).</p>
  561. <p>Hydrogen can also be made by electrolysis, using electricity to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. When the source of electrons is a wind, solar or biomass plant, the result is green hydrogen.</p>
  562. <p>Green, or renewable, hydrogen can be turned into fuel for transport, or ammonia. It can be injected into existing natural gas networks or stored for months on end – seasonal storage – to be converted back into electricity to feed demand during peak periods, such as especially cold winters. It can even be used to help balance fluctuations in grid frequency.   </p>
  563. <h4>Drivers for Green Hydrogen<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  564. <p>Recent studies have highlighted the falling cost of wind and solar photovoltaics as critical to reducing the cost of green hydrogen over the next decade and beyond.</p>
  565. <p>In its <a href="https://www.woodmac.com/news/editorial/the-future-for-green-hydrogen/">The Future for Green Hydrogen report</a>, analyst Wood Mackenzie predicts that once renewable electricity reaches $30/MWh (50% load hours), levelised cost of green hydrogen will be at parity with grey hydrogen by 2030 in most markets.</p>
  566. <p>Wood Mackenzie’s report found 253MW of green hydrogen projects have been deployed to date and forecasts this amount to exceed 3205MW of electrolyser installed capacity, globally, by 2025, a 1272% increase.</p>
  567. <p><a href="https://hydrogencouncil.com/en/path-to-hydrogen-competitiveness-a-cost-perspective/">Path to Hydrogen Competitiveness: A cost perspective, published by the Hydrogen Council</a> (written by McKinsey), forecasts green hydrogen costs will fall by as much as 60% by 2030.</p>
  568. <p>According to the report, once green hydrogen costs around $1.80/kg (£1.40/kg) it could unlock as much as 15% of global energy demand by 2030.</p>
  569. <p>Green hydrogen won’t be competitive in many markets until after 2025, but the projects and pilots happening now will potentially lay the groundwork for the long-talked about ‘hydrogen economy’.</p>
  570. <p>Globally, Europe is leading green hydrogen activity. Many economies, historically active in North Sea oil and gas, such as the Netherlands and the UK, have also been exploiting their offshore wind resources. Green hydrogen can integrate both sectors.</p>
  571. <h4>Shell and Co eye mega-offshore wind-hydrogen plant<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  572. <p>Shell, Gasunie and Groningen Seaports have launched a project that could result in the construction of a purpose-built 3-4GW offshore wind farm in the North Sea dedicated to generating electricity for the industrial-scale production of green hydrogen by 2030.</p>
  573. <p>The partners aim to complete a feasibility study for the <a href="https://www.gasunie.nl/en/news/europes-largest-green-hydrogen-project-starts-in-groningen">NortH2</a> project by the end of 2020</p>
  574. <p>The first offshore wind turbines for the project could be installed by 2027 to produce the first hydrogen that year, according to the consortium.</p>
  575. <p>Green hydrogen production, initially in Eemshaven, is expected to be around 800,000 tonnes per year by 2040. By then year the partners envisage a 10GW offshore wind complex for providing electricity for green hydrogen production. The electrolysers for making hydrogen could also be based offshore.</p>
  576. <p>Gasunie’s natural gas infrastructure will be used to transport green hydrogen to industrial customers in the Netherlands and north-west Europe.</p>
  577. <p>The power-to-gas infrastructure will also act as a “buffer” to provide flexibility in the power grid to balance out variable solar and wind generation.</p>
  578. <p>According to the partners the investments in NortH2 could create thousands of jobs in the northern Netherlands.</p>
  579. <p><span style="color: #1d1d1f; font-family: 'Sf pro', sans-serif; font-size: calc(24px + 2 * ((100vw - 576px) / 1024)); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.01em; text-align: inherit;">Piloting electrolysers at sea</span><span class="color" style="font-family: 'Sf pro', sans-serif; font-size: calc(24px + 2 * ((100vw - 576px) / 1024)); font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.01em; text-align: inherit;">.</span></p>
  580. <p><a href="https://www.north-sea-energy.eu/">North Sea Energy (NSE)</a> is a multi-year state-supported project in the Netherlands to prepare for the integration of the country’s offshore wind and natural gas sectors.</p>
  581. <p>The initiative involves establishing demonstrations of green hydrogen production offshore, which hasn’t been done before.</p>
  582. <p>An operational gas platform, owned by Neptune Energy, 12km off the Dutch coast will be installed with a 1MW electrolyser. The pilot, expected to go live by early 2023, will demonstrate the production of green hydrogen at sea, from renewable electricity supplied via a cable that connects the platform to shore and desalinated seawater.</p>
  583. <p>Following the pilot, NSE will commission larger offshore electrolyser plants over the next decade, ultimately connecting these to offshore wind production.</p>
  584. <h4>Danish project taps offshore wind turbines to make hydrogen<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  585. <p>In its native Denmark oil and gas player, turned offshore wind developer, Orsted and partners collaborating in a $5.15 million project to construct a 2MW electrolysis plant which also will include hydrogen storage.</p>
  586. <p>In the project, electricity produced from two Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines will supply the daily production of 600 kg of green hydrogen, enough to power 20-30 buses.</p>
  587. <h4>UK Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm to feed industrial-scale hydrogen plant<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  588. <p>As part of a £30 million funding boost from the UK government, a consortium that includes Orsted recently secured funding to demonstrate green hydrogen at scale.</p>
  589. <p>The £7.5 million second phase of the <a href="https://www.gigastack.co.uk/?cid=-w9S9KvWAo_cp79h1seiLynhyFy-SuN7VoBHg90JxmMAGv9QUBgRG5bCYshdXVlwm9iVywnn8vcZwgGdK72O1A..">Gigastack</a> project will see the consortium, led by Sheffield-based electrolyser producer ITM Power, conduct a front-end engineering design (FEED) study on a 100MW electrolyser plant using staged installations with a nominal capacity of 20MW.</p>
  590. <p>The FEED study will detail the actual design of a hydrogen production system, based on ITM Power’s technology, connected to Orsted’s Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm.</p>
  591. <p>Project partner Phillips 66 Limited’s Humber Refinery is the industrial offtaker for the renewable gas. </p>
  592. <p>A key objective of the Gigastack project is to “identify and highlight regulatory, commercial and technical challenges for real applications of industrial-scale renewable hydrogen systems,” the partners stated.</p>
  593. <p>“With industry and government working together, there has been a rapid deployment and a huge cost reduction. This project aims to do the same with hydrogen. At the right cost, this technology has the potential to play a huge role in meeting the UK’s decarbonisation targets,” said Orsted.</p>
  594. <h4>Scotland thinks big with green hydrogen<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  595. <p>Based on the Isle of Skye, Highlands &amp; Islands Alba (HIAlba) IDEA is a Scotland-based think tank promoting application of a technology developed by the Australian national science and industrial research agency (CSIRO) to reduce the cost of extracting green hydrogen from ammonia.</p>
  596. <p>According to HIAlba-IDEA, Scotland could generate offshore wind energy in such quantity that it exceeds the UK-based flow of oil and gas from the North Sea, therefore enabling Scotland to become global energy exporter.</p>
  597. <p>The concept lends itself to offshore ammonia production on disused oil rigs servicing offshore wind farms that could be stored in large underwater tanks for periods of low wind to ensure continuous production of renewable electricity. </p>
  598. <p>In a separate initiative Edinburgh-based Eneus is establishing a pipeline of green ammonia production sites, to reduce transmission and distribution costs associated with hydrogen.</p>
  599. <p>The facilities will convert the gas into ammonia, which liquefies at -33°C, compared to hydrogen which forms a liquid at -253°C.</p>
  600. <p>Ammonia is stored and transported using the same technology, logistics and infrastructure as liquified natural gas and can also be used directly to co-fire alongside existing fuels, where pure hydrogen is required.</p>
  601. <p>Scotland’s Orkney island currently hosts an electrolyser provided by ITM-Power as part of the Building Innovative Green Hydrogen systems in an Isolated Territory (BIG HIT) project.</p>
  602. <p>The Orkney Islands have over 50MW of installed wind, wave and tidal capacity. Renewable electricity used to produce the green hydrogen in the project is supplied by wind turbines on the Orkney islands of Shapinsay and Eday. A hydrogen refuelling station, installed as part of BIG HIT, supplies fuel for a fleet of vans on the island each kitted out with a hydrogen fuel cell range extender.</p>
  603. <p>In addition, the gas is also used in two hydrogen-powered boilers at facilities to provide zero carbon heating.</p>
  604. <h4>The new hydrogen future<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  605. <p>Many companies traditionally active in offshore oil and gas, from vessels operators, to providers of heavy lifting equipment, to fabricators of offshore structures, not to mention port facilities, have adapted to serve Europe’s offshore wind expansion.</p>
  606. <p>However, for the hydrocarbons industry, which is facing increasing pressure to decarbonise its activities, green hydrogen – as well as blue hydrogen in the interim – ensures the industry continues to be relevant in decarbonised future.</p>
  607. <p>It requires adaptation. According to the Hydrogen Council’s report, industry is prepared to invest, but clarity of policy direction to support hydrogen’s adoption will accelerate progress.</p>
  608. <p>New opportunities for supply chains and job markets that have grown up around offshore oil and gas industries of Europe could span constructing, operating and servicing offshore electrolyser plants to upgrading and maintaining the existing North Sea pipelines and emptied natural gas fields for the storage and transportation of green hydrogen.</p>
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  670. <h5>Pioneered in Europe, offshore wind continues to mature, reducing costs and unlocking new markets, in Asia &#8211; led by Taiwan &#8211; and the US, where north-east coastal states are driving efforts to exploit the country&#8217;s significant offshore wind resources.</h5>
  671. <p>A globalised <a href="https://www.attollo.com/renewable/">offshore wind</a> market will be able to push down costs further and unlock fresh sources of demand, as new contractors, subcontractors, and other entrants, continue to infuse the sector with innovation and competition.</p>
  672. <p>However, despite big gains made in Europe, where the North Sea hosts most of the world’s offshore wind capacity, the share of offshore wind in the overall energy mix is small.</p>
  673. <p>According to the <a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/offshore-wind-outlook-2019">Offshore Wind Outlook 2019</a>, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), offshore wind supplies just 0.3% of global power generation. Onshore wind accounts for about 6% in comparison.</p><p><br></p> </div>
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  683. <h4>Global forecast<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  684. <p>In 2018 installed offshore wind capacity stood at 23GW, with annual deployment growing by 30% annually (IEA).</p>
  685. <p>Over 80% of installed capacity is installed in Europe, in the North Sea. The UK leads with 8GW, followed by Germany with over 6GW.</p>
  686. <p>Supported by policy targets and falling technology costs, the<a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/offshore-wind-outlook-2019"> IEA</a> estimates – based on stated policies – global offshore wind capacity is set to increase fifteen-fold from 23GW in 2018 to around 370GW by 2040. Annual offshore wind capacity additions are set to double over the next five years, rising to over 20GW annually from 2030.</p>
  687. <p>Beyond 2030, cost competitiveness of offshore wind is expected to help maintain pace of growth.</p>
  688. <h4>Regional Breakdown<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  689. <p>Today Europe and China lead the offshore wind market and this dominance is expected to continue over the next 20 years, with both markets accounting for nearly three-quarters of installed capacity by 2040. From the early 2020s the US, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, will account for the rest of the growth.</p>
  690. <p><b>Europe </b></p>
  691. <p>To 2040 the EU will account for 40% of the global offshore market, increasing installed capacity to almost 130GW by then, according to IEA’s forecast based on stated policies. By then annual investment in offshore will reach $17bn, from $11bn today. In 2040 offshore wind will provide more than one-in-six kilowatt-hours generated in the EU.</p>
  692. <p><b>China</b></p>
  693. <p>According to Fitch China has emerged as one of the fastest expanding wind markets globally. There is a national growth target of 5GW by 2020, but, according to Fitch, cumulative 2020 provincial-level targets in Jiangsu, (3500MW), Fujian (2000MW) and Guangdong (2000MW) exceed the national target.</p>
  694. <p><b>US</b></p>
  695. <p>Based on current state policies, the US will go from just 30MW of installed capacity today to nearly 40GW of installed capacity by 2040, with related investment totalling $100bn and accounting for 3% of electricity supply.</p>
  696. <p>The US alone could add nearly 30GW by 2040, based on collective targets by states, including New York (9GW), New Jersey (7.5GW), Massachusetts (3.5GW), Connecticut (2GW), Virginia (2.6GW). Potentially this pipeline could increase further if the Federal government holds outer continental shelf lease sales for sites off California and the west coast state adopts an industry advised target of 10GW by 2045, achievable using floating wind technology.</p>
  697. <p>State-level policies in many cases are crafted to ensure the US optimises local content opportunities from the outset and developers are responding by pledging tens of millions of dollars in port upgrades and workforce training.</p>
  698. <h4>Emerging Markets<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  699. <p>After the EU, China and the US, a few markets, including Taiwan, Japan, India and South Korea will drive global growth to 2040.</p>
  700. <p>Taiwan deserves special mention. <a href="https://gwec.net/members-area-market-intelligence/reports/">Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) Market Intelligence</a> forecasts Taiwan is set to become the second largest offshore wind market in Asia.</p>
  701. <p>With a current target in place for 5.7GW of offshore wind capacity by 2025, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen announced in November 2019 that Taiwan plans to add an additional 10GW of capacity between 2026 and 2035, doubling its current target.</p>
  702. <p>According to GWEC the global wind industry has ‘its sights set on Taiwan to be the next big offshore wind market’.</p>
  703. <h4>Challenges<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  704. <p>As a technology poised for rapid growth, offshore wind faces challenges.&nbsp; A key one is the establishing supply chains able to deliver projects efficiently and cost-effectively, while limiting project risk.</p>
  705. <p>Governments have a critical role to play in terms of providing long-term visibility with ambitious goals so the industry can be confident in there being enough annual capacity buildout to support supply chain investments, in training, port upgrades, manufacturing, and servicing facilities.</p>
  706. <p>Governments are also crucial in terms of directing public funds to support R&amp;D to de-risk new and untried innovations that can potentially drive down the cost of offshore wind, for example, the UK’s <a href="https://ore.catapult.org.uk/">Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult</a>.</p>
  707. <h4>Environmental Considerations<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  708. <p>Offshore wind has potential far-reaching impacts on marine wildlife, including fishes, mammals, birds and bats, as well as other ocean users, like commercial fishing.&nbsp; As the <a href="https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/the-future-of-us-offshore-wind-the-top-ten-biggest-projects/2-1-692494">nascent US offshore wind sector</a> has recently experienced, requirements for adequate and detailed environmental impact assessments are now more complex, to understand cumulative impact of hundreds of turbines in the water.</p>
  709. <p>In the UK the Crown Estate blocked the expansion of Race Bank Offshore wind farm citing environmental concerns.&nbsp; Denmark has been revising its permitting procedures to ensure offshore wind expansion occurs in such a way as to minimise permitting challenges and potential conflicts arising from environmental impacts.</p>
  710. <h4>Grid Bottlenecks<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  711. <p>As countries gear up to build gigawatts of capacity, the grid has emerged as a critical part of the challenge.&nbsp; Germany is undertaking grid upgrades to ensure that offshore wind power landing in the north of the country can be transported to demand loads in the south.</p>
  712. <p>At a higher level there are calls for countries around the North Sea need to implement a harmonised regulatory and economic framework to support a ‘meshed offshore grid’, as envisaged in the EU-funded Progress on Offshore Meshed HVDC Transmission Networks (Promotion) project.</p>
  713. <p>As the cost of energy storage falls, the technology could help bolster onshore grid systems to accept more offshore wind power.</p>
  714. <p>How grid upgrades are done depends on country-by-country specifics, such as how electricity transmission and distribution is regulated.&nbsp; In the case of the US, several transmission system operators serve the east coast, making it challenging to achieve a strategic overview in terms of the best approach to expand the grid efficiently and cost-effectively.</p>
  715. <h4>Opportunities<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  716. <p>Increasingly governments see offshore wind is a chance to revitalise industry, breathing new economic life into ports and local economies, providing local companies in sectors as diverse as shipbuilding, vessel chartering, steel fabrication, electrical engineering, and software/IT, with a potential new sector to provide services and goods into.</p>
  717. <p>In Taiwan, offshore wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa has teamed up with Yeong Guan Group to set up a factory at Taichung port to make turbine castings, to support the localisation of this type of production.</p>
  718. <p>CDWE, a joint venture between DEME Offshore and Taiwanese business CSBC, has signed contracts for the transport and installation of foundations and turbines at the Zhong Neng offshore wind farm.</p>
  719. <p>The US lags behind other markets in terms of projects entering construction, but that hasn’t stopped states attracting investment from European developers.&nbsp; In Connecticut Orsted and its local joint venture partner Eversource have committed to invest $57.5m for upgrades to New London State Pier, to create an offshore wind staging hub.</p>
  720. <p>Contingent on their Constitution Wind project winning Connecticut’s offshore wind solicitation the companies have pledged to also invest $100m in local initiatives, including small business loan funds, as well as training scholarships and apprenticeships.</p>
  721. <h4>Oil and Gas Cooperation<span class="color">.</span></h4>
  722. <p>Overall spending on offshore wind power reached $20bn in 2018.&nbsp; The<a href="https://www.iea.org/"> IEA</a> forecasts projected global annual spending for the next decade to double.&nbsp; Growth in offshore wind provides opportunities to companies that already provide similar and relevant services in oil and gas.</p>
  723. <p>Some of the leading offshore wind developers, including <a href="https://orsted.com/en/Our-business/Offshore-wind/Our-offshore-wind-farms">Orsted</a>, <a href="https://www.equinor.com/">Equinor</a> and <a href="https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-energies/wind.html">Shell</a>, are historic oil and gas majors, though Orsted is unique in having sold its fossil fuel assets to focus on renewable energy.</p>
  724. <p>The IEA estimates that 40% of the full lifetime costs of a standard offshore wind project has significant synergies with the offshore oil and gas sector.&nbsp; That translates into a $275bn market opportunity in Europe in IEA’s analysis based on stated policies but could be as high as $360bn.&nbsp; Construction represents more crossover opportunities than O&amp;M.</p>
  725. <p>As Equinor is already showing, the oil and gas industry has experience and knowledge that can be leveraged when it comes to floating platforms for offshore wind.&nbsp; The developer chose Kvaerner, which builds concrete structures for the offshore oil and gas industry, to provide the 11 floating concrete hulls for its 88MW Hywind Tampen floating wind project, which will generate clean power for operating the Snorre and Gullfaks platforms.</p>
  726. <p>Aside from the turbines, virtually all other elements of the offshore wind supply chain represent an opportunity for oil and gas players, from project development and permitting to installation and balance of plant, to maintenance and inspection work and eventual decommissioning.</p>
  727. <p>Attollo is a key supplier to the offshore energy industry, if you think we can help get in contact!</p>
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  764. <p>The post <a href="https://www.attollo.com/global-offshore-wind-market-projections-and-forecasts/">Global offshore wind market &#8211; Projections and forecasts</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.attollo.com">ATTOLLO | Supporting a sustainable future.</a>.</p>
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  771. <title>Attollo Conversation with Brett Moffatt</title>
  772. <link>https://www.attollo.com/attollo-conversation-with-brett-moffatt/</link>
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  796. <h5>Attollo Conversation with Brett Moffatt &#8211; Managing Director of Talent Intelligence<span class="color">.</span></h5>
  797. <p>Michael Hayman: Hello and welcome to the Attollo conversations with me, Michael Hayman. It&#8217;s the series shedding light on technology disruption and the what&#8217;s next for the energy industry. My guest today is Brett Moffatt. He&#8217;s the managing director of Talent Intelligence, the global leadership risk management company that solves critical talent challenges. Working around the globe, Brett and his team help recruit and retain talent that supercharge the performance of business.</p>
  798. <p>Michael Hayman: Now he says this, the idea of working nine to five until you receive a gold watch at the age of 60 is dying out fast. Brett, welcome. But how quickly do we want that watch and does it have to be gold?</p>
  799. <p>Brett Moffatt: I think we need to, we absolutely need to change the expectations of what retention and longevity means in the organization. I think we need to start with the point that even though employment contracts are contracts, we need to think about the emotional contract we have with our employees.</p>
  800. <p>Brett Moffatt: We need to start thinking about what both parties can get out of the relationship for the time that we&#8217;re together.</p>
  801. <p>Michael Hayman: But that statement about the hanging on until your 60, minutes speaks to a broader truth doesn&#8217;t it? That I guess people want things much more instantaneously these days. We want career advancement. Is this just something that&#8217;s happening in tech, or do you see that as being a work wide issue in terms of the demands of very talented people?</p>
  802. <p>Brett Moffatt: I don&#8217;t think we can say, &#8220;Is it just in tech?&#8221; Anymore. Tech is everywhere, and so many organizations are going through what they call digital transformations. Tech is becoming the very hub of what an organization&#8217;s about. So you bring in tech people to your organization, they are going to have different expectations, and that culture is going to change everything about the organization.</p>
  803. <p>Michael Hayman: Okay. So that&#8217;s one of the drivers. Is there a generational driver here as well?</p>
  804. <p>Brett Moffatt: I think there&#8217;s a huge generational driver. If you think about the US at the moment, 10,000 people are turning 65 every day, and they&#8217;re going to turn 65 every day for the next 20 years.</p>
  805. <p>Michael Hayman: That&#8217;s a lot of people.</p>
  806. <p>Brett Moffatt: It&#8217;s a lot of people, and it&#8217;s a lot of people turning 65 and by definition retiring over there. So I think that companies need to be smarter about handing over to more junior members of the team now.</p>
  807. <p>Michael Hayman: So when you&#8217;re advising leaders of organizations, what&#8217;s the central angst? Is it that the retiring end of the workforce, or is it the up and coming, and in terms of, who you need to keep happy and onside?</p>
  808. <p>I Brett Moffatt: think that the real challenge at the moment is how are you keeping the new generations of employees happy in the workplace? I think that if you&#8217;re 60 you&#8217;ve got a lot to offer. But there is an expectation that at some stage in the next 10 years you probably won&#8217;t be working there anymore.</p>
  809. <p>Brett Moffatt: But new generation&#8217;s coming in, millennials generation Z. They&#8217;re coming in and they&#8217;ve got the next 30 years in an organization. I think that if employers aren&#8217;t thinking about keeping them happy, they missing a trick.</p>
  810. <p>Michael Hayman: Presumably they&#8217;re not thinking about the next 30 years at one organization, mobility seems to be a big part of the mindset of a lot of people.</p>
  811. <p>Brett Moffatt: I think that&#8217;s the point. We just need to stop thinking that people are going to be with us forever. We need to think about what we can get out of the the employees, and what the employees can get out of us while they&#8217;re here, whether it&#8217;s one, two or three years.</p>
  812. <p>Michael Hayman: And when your parts of the economy, which is energy, oil and gas, when you&#8217;re looking at the specifics here, when you look at the debates about talent and how you retain it, are there other lessons from other parts of the business world? Or do you think they are quite unique to particular sectors?</p>
  813. <p>Brett Moffatt: Oil companies by definition are multi-site and highly complex. When we think about talent in organizations like that, again we&#8217;re thinking not just about the traditional sources of talent and the traditional skill sets, we&#8217;re thinking about what are those organizations going to look like in the next 20 years? Typically they&#8217;re going to be automated, they&#8217;re going to be digital in nature.</p>
  814. <p>Brett Moffatt: So looking at how we&#8217;re bringing people into those organizations, is again going to change the way those organizations look at.</p>
  815. <p>Michael Hayman: Do the leadership teams themselves need to change as well as the people that are coming in? But what about the decision making structures, the hierarchies, if you will, that are actually making those decisions? Are they going to have to change with the times?</p>
  816. <p>Brett Moffatt: I think it would be nice if they could. But I think that the best option here is, as I said earlier, to try and make sure that we&#8217;ve got a generational shift from the current leaders, and by leaders I&#8217;m not necessarily talking about the senior people in organizations, I&#8217;m talking about the people who know how the organization works. How is that information and knowledge, how is the soul of the organization being transferred to a new generation?</p>
  817. <p>Michael Hayman: One last tip, somebody who&#8217;s watching this is in a leadership position, they&#8217;re thinking about risk, talent flight, what&#8217;s something that they could do right now to make themselves a better risk resistant business?</p>
  818. <p>Brett Moffatt: They can stop the reliance on executive search. They spend a lot of time, they invest very heavily in internal succession. But so often when a vacancy occurs, an organization looks at the internal successes and realizes that actually those people they thought were ready now aren&#8217;t ready now. Even the ready later people are ready much later than they thought.</p>
  819. <p>Brett Moffatt: So their option then is go out into the marketplace via an executive search firm, and whilst they&#8217;re great at what they do, it is very reactive. If there&#8217;s one thing that an executive in any industry can do right now is, start connecting with executives in the marketplace today to build an integrated succession.</p>
  820. <p>Michael Hayman: So don&#8217;t wait for the distress. Look at it as the opportunity.</p>
  821. <p>Brett Moffatt: Yeah, well manage the risk.</p>
  822. <p>Michael Hayman: Brett Moffatt, thank you very much indeed.</p>
  823. <p>Brett Moffatt: Okay, thank you.</p>
  824. <p>Michael Hayman: And a big thank you to Brett Moffatt, making the case there for a new approach to talent retention. He says, businesses have to play the long game if they want to get their people strategies right. And in a new digital era, different generations have different expectations. But one thing remains constant, relationships matter. Invest the time and effort into them and achieve the continuity, and in so doing, transfer the soul of the very business to a future generation. I&#8217;ll see you for the next edition of the Attollo conversations.</p>
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  881. <h5>Attollo Conversation with Kim Atherton &#8211; Chief People Officer of Ovo Energy<span class="color">.</span></h5>
  882. <p>Michael: Hello, and welcome to the Attollo Conversations with me, Michael Hayman. It&#8217;s a series shedding light on technology disruption, and what&#8217;s next for the energy industry. My guest today is Kim Atherton. As Chief People Officer over energy, she scaled the first Growth Energy Supplies Team with a mission to be a positive force in the lives of its customers and its teams alike. Every day is a school day, although it&#8217;s part of our culture to challenge and learn Kim says.</p>
  883. <p>Kim. Teach us something there. What&#8217;s the Ovo secret?</p>
  884. <p>Kim: Goodness me, no pressure. It&#8217;s been a really, really fun journey and so I joined Ovo in 2012 when the team was round about 50 strong. And I&#8217;ve seen the scale through at 1500 employees now, and just short of a million customers. So it&#8217;s been a really fun journey.</p>
  885. <p>Michael: And it&#8217;s seen as one of the big sort of energy disrupters. If you give a sense of the magic. I&#8217;ve seen you talk about this, sort of the startup culture. What is that?</p>
  886. <p>Kim: So I think it&#8217;s easy to say this and feel quite trite, but we were born out of a purpose. And having a very, very strong purpose and values, it sounds really cheesy, but for our particular, we base who are typically millennials average age 26. That&#8217;s really, really, really important to them. So that&#8217;s certainly the kind of I guess the foundation.</p>
  887. <p>Michael: Foundation.</p>
  888. <p>Kim: And then we have done everything we can to retain the culture that we had as a startup. So, wherever possible, we have a distribution, the decision making to our employee base. And we have a very robust debate with our employees. We still communicate with them a lot, and we try to retain the essence of a startup.</p>
  889. <p>Michael: Is there a formula do you think in maintaining that kind of &#8230; &#8216;Cause a lot of people look back on the startup era as this sort of intense period of change and a breakthrough. I mean, is there a formula in maintaining that?</p>
  890. <p>Kim: I don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s a formula as such. I think that there are certainly conditions that you can put into place as you scale. And also, I mean people look at startups with where it&#8217;s a dispatch cause and I know I do, but there are also some negatives that we can try to avoid.</p>
  891. <p>Michael: So it&#8217;s all what &#8230; Give us an example of one of those.</p>
  892. <p>Kim: So I think that in the early days, we wanted to be very agile and very nimble, and so we wanted to pivot and be opportunistic, which was fantastic. What we didn&#8217;t do enough was to re-prioritize in light of the wider strategy, so that our people understood that there was an overarching plan, but then we did want to be opportunistic as well.</p>
  893. <p>Michael: Right. The hard right into the company&#8217;s mission was to disrupt the energy sector. Why was it right for the disruption that you sought?</p>
  894. <p>Kim: So when we first launched nine years ago, we were one of the first actually, believe it or not now that there are so many new entrants in the energy retail space, but we were one of the first. And, at the time, the big six really did have an enormous market share. Not many people were switching. And yet the consumer appetite for something different was there. So, to start with Ovo launched very much as an alternative to the big six. And actually we&#8217;ve seen such huge competition in that space that we&#8217;ve re-pivoted to being much more of an En Tech business.</p>
  895. <p>Michael: Do you feel that the wider energy sector has got the message in terms of the importance of innovation? Has it got better alongside you?</p>
  896. <p>Kim: I think so. I think there&#8217;s definitely examples. So one of our competitors, Centrica, I think are pretty good in the innovation space, and I think there are some exciting smaller companies doing some great things. But I think that fundamentally, there are a lot of the bigger energy companies, they have certain targets to meet, they have certain shareholders to keep happy, and that can sometimes mean that they drive for &#8230; less for investment in new technologies.</p>
  897. <p>Michael: Now you&#8217;ve taken the learnings of the culture and you&#8217;ve started to think about turning it into a software product. Tell us a little bit about that.</p>
  898. <p>Kim: Sure. So, as we scaled Ovo, we wanted to retain our innovation and as I mentioned, distribute the decision making to make sure that we were instead of being like a tanker, we&#8217;re more like a flotilla of small ships, able to really pivot and to ride out those waves. So, we looked at different models and came across the Spotify organization or design, which was to break up the big silos into cross-functional teams that are very much organized along the customer journey. So, for example, you might have a group of people across different functions coming together to say how do we build-</p>
  899. <p>Michael: Right. But presumably a lot easier if you&#8217;re a startup to take on a Spotify model than if you&#8217;re a large sort of established player.</p>
  900. <p>Kim: Yeah. So at this point we were medium sized. We were about 1400 people at this point. We found that once we moved to that model, we didn&#8217;t have the conditions for transparency that really, really allowed us more to really, really sing. And so we bought a piece of software that essentially is a goal-setting and alignment tool for use in this cross-functional world. So, we set up the strategy very clearly, and then we set up the three current priorities and the software&#8217;s called Just3Things.</p>
  901. <p>Michael: Right. So give us &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ve got time for three things, but we&#8217;re right at the end, but if you&#8217;re to think about an innovation culture, something that an organization could do now to get it right, what would be your final thought?</p>
  902. <p>Kim: So I think my top three things would be hire for agility rather than skills wherever you can. So, that ability to take on different rules. And distribute the decision making. And pay more attention to the values and the meaning.</p>
  903. <p>Michael: Kim, we got three in. I thought we might only get one in. Thanks very much indeed.</p>
  904. <p>Thank you.</p>
  905. <p>Michael: Kim Atherton, Chief People Officer of Ovo Energy there. Now, for Kim it&#8217;s all about the culture; how you capture it and how you take it forward as you scale. Maintaining that startup drive or the Spotify model, as she called it. Now that&#8217;s key. And keeping agility and focus at the core of everything you do is how you turn a mission into a reality.</p>
  906. <p>I&#8217;ll see you for the next edition of the Attollo Conversations.</p>
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