Bibby Marine Services Limited

The installation of large battery systems on SOV's has gained significant attention in recent years with the idea of utilising battery charging opportunities at offshore charging stations to augment the use combustion engines to reduce the vessel's fuel consumption and associated emissions. Further, this reduction in fuel use opens the door to implementin...

The market for OSW (Off-Shore Wind) support vessels is growing rapidly, with between 62-149 vessels required in UK Waters by 2030. However, even best-in-class vessels currently use fossil fuel and might do so throughout their entire life costing over £17.5m in damage to the environment. All the UK-operating SOV have been built abroad. Bibby Marine (BML), ...

During the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) phase of an offshore wind farm's lifecycle (typically 25 years), wind farm operators rely on extensive marine logistics between shore and the wind farm for transport of technicians, inspectors, equipment and spare parts. A range of vessels is used in these operations, but all are currently powered mainly by MGO ...

This _Feasibility study into decarbonisation of SOV newbuild and retrofit_ is a project to fully realise the ZE new-build and LE retrofit options available to mid-to-large size vessels. Building on Bibby Marine's existing research and development project _MarRI-UK_ _WaveMaster Zero C,_ this new project seeks to build on the knowledge learnt about ZE fuels...

In Project _LiNa-Wave_, the partners will demonstrate proof-of-concept for a sodium-nickel-chloride (NaNiCl2) battery platform for maritime applications. There is an acute need for solutions that deliver zero-emission shipping. In spite of the introduction of hybrid vessels, maritime GHGs are currently on track to increase by between 50% and 250% by 2050,...