Offshore wind | Sercel

OVERVIEW

The offshore wind market is growing with a steady increase in installed capacity in recent years.

Offshore wind farms provide a clean, renewable source of energy to meet the growing demand for electricity. Offshore wind technologies have also undergone a significant evolution, offering ever larger and more efficient wind turbines as well as improved construction, installation and consequently monitoring techniques.

However, the high initial cost of offshore wind projects remains a challenge for the expansion of this market. This is why it’s essential to optimize exploration and geotechnics with precision, while paying particular attention to the protection of marine mammals in underwater environment.

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WHY SERCEL

Sercel offers a unique and proven range of solutions and products that will support your operations, both from a technical and economical perspective.

For demanding customers in a fast-growing market, we are here to assist in the design, preparation and execution of your offshore projects giving flexibility of choice.

Sercel helps decisionmakers to comply with regulations and reduce risks before, during and after maritime operations.

Sercel supports the offshore industry in order to collect sensing and monitoring data or Geotechnical testing for Offshore engineering for help in decision making

APPLICATIONS

Passive Acoustic Monitoring Equipment - Quietsea buoy

During all the steps of windfarm installation, it's very important to define mammal population presence but also to be alerted during operation.

Offshore windfarm projects are mainly in coastal areas either on cetacean (whale, dolphin, and porpoise) migration roads or with presence of marine mammals. When construction generates acoustic noise at sea (pile driving, vessels, etc.), measures to accurately assess the abundance of cetaceans on the area and to prevent any interference with cetaceans during maritime works are necessary and sometimes required by regulators.

Do you know that Sercel can provide an autonomous and real time monitoring solution on a buoy?

Passive acoustic monitoring real-time and autonomous quietsea buoy

Learn more about our QuietSea buoy solution

Shaping the future of energy logistics

Continuous improvement is at the heart of all offshore operations, whether it is operational efficiency, quality of delivery, or cost reduction that leads to increased profitability. Sercel developed the Marlin Application Suite to facilitate the implementation of these enhancements. The Marlin Application Suite is at the forefront of delivering bespoke and integrated digital solutions to the maritime industry's manual and often disparate processes. It improves safety and reduces operational downtime in congested offshore environments by ensuring that all parties have full situational awareness of the planned activities of every asset in the operational area.

Optimized operational performance
Improved safety performance
Enhanced collaboration between stakeholders
Full auditable database with payback

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SIMOPS Management

Whether you are doing seismic acquisition, offshore construction , offshore Wind farm operations or simultaneous E&P operations, vessels in these projects frequently dependent on real-time tracking, while operational plans are stored and visualized elsewhere, resulting in a lack of situational awareness. This can lead to operational conflicts not being identified until an operational deficiency occurs, increasing the risk of unplanned downtime. Marlin situational awareness and SIMOPS management solution, is used to ensure minimal disruption to concurrent activities