Decision Support for Weather

Sensitive Operations

StormGeo – a Voyage into Offshore Wind

NORWEPBergen, 9 March 2017

Camilla AlbertsenForecasting Manager

Camilla.albertsen@stormgeo.com

StormGeo Snapshot

Offshore Wind

Products and service

Challenges and growth

The road ahead

Who we are

Key facts

Global provider of decision support for weather

sensitive operations at sea

Founded: 1997

Revenue: MNOK 453

Employees: 350

Headquarters: Bergen, Norway

Customers: > 1900

Locations: 7 weather centres 24/7/365 and 26

offices in 15 countries

ISO 9001:2008 certified

Owners: EQT, DNV GL, employees, private

investors

Customers

EMEA

53 %

North America

26 %

APAC

20 %

Other

1 %

Shipping

51 %

Offshore

28 %

Renewables

8 %

Onshore

8 %

Media

5 %

Region

Segment

What we do

Shipping

Offshore

Oil & Gas

AviationOffshore Wind

Corporate

Enterprise

Hydro

Power

Media

Shale

Oil & Gas

Onshore

Wind

Silicon Valley

Anchorage

Houston

New York

Rio de Janeiro

Singapore

Tokyo

Seoul

Shanghai

Hong KongDubai

Baku

London

Aberdeen

Stavanger

Bergen

Oslo

Stockholm

Copenhagen

Hamburg

Where to find us

COMPETENCE - INSPIRATION - INNOVATION

26 Offices g 7 Forecast Centres -> One vision

24/7 Operation Centers / Sales

Daytime Operational Support / Sales

R&D

Miami

Muscat

Users’ data

How it all works

ServicesProduction chain

StormGeo Snapshot

Offshore Wind

Products and service

Challenges and growth

The road ahead

StormGeo back in 2008…

• 41 employees

• All in Norway - Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger

• A good customer base – but nearly all in Norway

• Offshore oil and gas, energy trading, media

Figure with O&G sites around that time –

can Hogne help?

Then, in late 2008 / 2009…

• Office in Copenhagen

• Office in Stockholm

• Wind energy the main target area for these new offices

• By the end of 2009 we had the first clients in offshore wind….

2009

And in 2010…

• Office in Aberdeen

• Oil and gas the main focus of the Aberdeen office - initially

• End 2010 No. of offshore wind projects had doubled...

2010

2011

StormGeo Snapshot

Offshore Wind

Products and service

Challenges and growth

The road ahead

What is StormGeo actually doing in offshore wind?

• Operational weather forecasting

- Transports

- Construction

- Maintenance

• Prediction of vessel/gangway motion

• On-site forecaster assistance

- All building on our experience

from oil&gas and shipping

State-of-the-art web portal

Live lightning

Forecast

locationsForecast charts

On-line weather window tools

All forecasts controlled and corrected 24/7

Hotline decision support

“Hi GOW – High risk of lightning between

1500 and 1800 today when front passes”

“OK RWE NSO – High confidence of

weather window tomorrow. Hsig falling

below 2.1m between 0300 and 2200”

“Yes LAL – Winds above 22m/s for next 12 hours,

but decreasing below by 0600 tomorrow”

“That’s me off to Meerwind Süd-Ost”

StormGeo Snapshot

Offshore Wind

Products and service

Challenges and growth

The road ahead

Challenges

• Offshore wind sites typically closer to shore – forecasting more complex

• Many smaller installations vs. few, large ones

• Lighter equipment

• Higher weather sensitivity

- Waves – widespread use of small boats

- Wind – e.g., lifts of blades up to 150 m

• High sensitivity to lightning

• Industry still young back then – some clients less experienced

- But we learned and are now probably the most experienced weather

forecasting provider for the offshore wind industry

2012

• Office in Hamburg

- 0.5 person (now 3.5)

• From the beginning focusing on the

emerging offshore wind market

• Successfully managed to win more

than 80 percent of German projects

over the next few years

2012

2013

2014

Who are the clients of these services?

• Project developers – e.g.

- Statoil

- DONG Energy

- Vattenfall

• IPC contractors – e.g.

- van Oord

- WindCarrier

• Other contractors – e.g.

- Vroon / MPI

- Cwind

Where are our markets?

• Germany

• UK

• Denmark

• Netherlands

• Belgium

…

Market share, Europe:

~45 pct end 2016

And it continues to grow…

2015

March 2017

StormGeo Snapshot

Offshore Wind

Products and service

Challenges and growth

The road ahead

The road ahead

• Increase our market share in a growing market

• Expand our services to North America & Far East

- First assignments in Taiwan late 2016 – 2017, incl. Formosa 1

• Involve the local sales force in the USA, China, Brazil…

• Develop new services using advanced analytics!

Advanced Analytics

Combine client data and

weather data to arrive at

predictive tools for

managing complex

operational systems

• Grid operation

• Wind farm O&M

• Damage modelling

• …

NEW!

Thank you from StormGeo!

Camilla AlbertsenForecasting ManagerCamilla.albertsen@stormgeo.comAnna.hilden@stormgeo.com