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Decision Support for Weather Sensitive Operations StormGeo – a Voyage into Offshore Wind NORWEP Bergen, 9 March 2017 Camilla Albertsen Forecasting Manager [email protected]
Decision Support for Weather
Sensitive Operations
StormGeo – a Voyage into Offshore Wind
NORWEPBergen, 9 March 2017
Camilla AlbertsenForecasting Manager
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!
