Offshore staff
ABERDEEN — Shell has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP) collaborative project, which is powering subsea equipment off the coast of Orkney, Scotland, through a combination of wave power and subsea energy storage.
The £2million ($2.5 million) demonstrator initiative, which is nearing 12 months in the water, has connected the Blue X wave energy converter (built by Mocean Energy) with a Halo underwater battery storage system (developed by Verlume).
Verlume says the fully operational project aims to show how green technologies can be combined to provide reliable low-carbon power and communications to subsea equipment, offering a cost-effective alternative to umbilical cables, which are carbon intensive with long lead times to procure and install.
The new investment has come via the Shell Technology – Marine Renewable Program, a global R&D group pursuing the mission of finding, screening, testing and developing marine renewable energy technologies to achieve more value with lower emissions.
The company will now join Mocean Energy and Verlume, alongside partners Baker Hughes, Serica Energy, Harbour Energy, Transmark Subsea, PTTEP, TotalEnergies and the Net Zero Technology Centre.
Joining RSP offers Shell access to all data and results from the current test program, alongside a feasibility assessment of the use of RSP technology at a location of its choice.
02.05.2024
