1. Michael Cowie, Technical Director
“Success in Offshore Wind & Marine”
Michael Cowie, Technical Director

2. Presentation Overview
ESS Ethos
ESS Financials and Growth
Ecosse Subsea Systems – Business Overview
Who We Work With
Utilising Existing Knowledge
Success in Offshore Wind & Marine
Successful Projects
Conclusions

3. ESS Ethos Subsea Services that are focused on being: Client focused
Safe
Simple
Robust
Off-the Shelf Components
Negate the requirement for specialist vessels
Installable by local people and vessels
Recoverable, recyclable
ESS has been described as a ‘Pseudo’-Contractor – A business that not only undertakes subsea services but is continually re-investing in new technology and innovation – quite unusual!
Utilising their ‘technology advantage’ ESS perform most of the services that huge Contractors provide at a fraction of the cost. Cable Lay, Pipelay, Trenching, Lifting.

4. ESS Financials and Growth

5. Engineering Consultancy
Ecosse Subsea Systems
Personnel
ESS provide a specialist personnel and resourcing support business service across the full spectrum of offshore requirements. Today more than £350 million of subsea projects are managed by ESS personnel resource for and on behalf of our clients.
Engineering Consultancy
ESS offer bespoke engineering and design solutions with a team combining a vast experience curve, specialist subsea expertise, coupled with procurement, fabrication, and installation know-how.
Pipelay Technologies
ESS Technologies comprises of innovative patented offerings specifically developed over more than 25 years to address subsea operational challenges. These include trenching,cable/pipelay, and lifting applications
Ambient Lifting
ESS’s patented subsea lifting and positioning technologies
Ambient lifting is a flexible mechanism using incompressible gas which facilitates control of the accent, decent and underwater positioning of offshore structures
Equipment Hire
A wide range of equipment is available for hire to support and deliver subsea installation projects. Including Te Carousel, 10Te Hydraullic Tensioners, SCAR Plough in its four configurations and PREP (Plastic Reeled Elastic Pipelay System). 

6. Who We Work With…

7. Utilising Existing Knowledge
ESS combined Oil and Gas with Renewables Market
Transferable skills and tools
Success from projects is reinvested into the development of new technologies and innovation
Variety of project work supports the retention of personnel

8. Success in Offshore Wind & Marine
Researching and Targeting the Market
International Approach
Conferences and Exhibitions
PR and Marketing
Strong Sales Approach
Projects We’ve Worked On

9. SCAR Seabed Trenching System: Track Record
Date
Project Title
Project Description
March-April 2012
Laggan-Tormore Boulder Clearance Project
Boulder clearance along a single 67km corridor over 6 days, 2,000 large boulders were cleared. Water depths up to 640m. Client; TOTAL.
December 2012
Humber Gateway SCAR Demonstration Project
Demonstration project by SCAR was deployed in each of its current configurations (boulder clearance, first pass, multi-pass pre-cut trenching and backfill modes) in order to perform passes within several dedicated trial locations. Soils were soft, stiff and hard clays with shear strengths in excess of 300kPa in sections. Site featured many boulders and cobbles. Client; E.On C&R.
March-June 2013
Baltic 2 Offshore Wind Farm Project
Boulder clearance and pre-cut trenching of 86 array cable routes within the Baltic 2 site. Pre-cut trenching entailed two passes on each of the array routes, trenching to 1.5m Soils varied from soft clays, to stiff sands, to glacial till. Client; Siem Offshore Contractors. Total ploughing distance of some 240km and a total of >250 individual passes.
October-November 2013
Humber Gateway Export Cable Boulder Clearance Project
Boulder clearance on 2 x 7km Export Cable lines on the Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm project. Client; E.On C&R.
June – August 2014
Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm Project
Multi-pass Boulder Clearance operations on 37 inter array routes on Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm, Client; Dong Energy. 50,000 targets cleared

10. Baltic 2 OWF Project
A $7.5 million boulder clearing and pre-lay trenching project which has been one of the most successful ever conducted for the wind energy sector.
86 boulder clearing passes followed by 172 first and multi-passes over a 90km route during a 13-week boulder clearing and trenching campaign on the EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm project.
The project was on schedule and on budget.
Mobilisation on the 86 cable route work scope started in Gdansk/Poland, with ESS transporting its SCAR® ploughing technology by road from Aberdeen.
Mobilisation aboard the Siem Topaz took 48 hours with demobilisation being completed in only 12 hours.
Several thousand boulders ranging up to 4m in size were cleared from the individual cable routes and ESS performed 260 individual route passes in varying and sometimes challenging soil conditions.
Reliability of the plough equipment was excellent as expected with more than 95% uptime.

11. Humber Gateway OWF
Humber Gateway site is located is extremely tidal, with the current predominantly running north to south, frequently in excess of 3 knots.
Route clearance and multi-pass trenching modes demonstrated
Effective trenching achieved in hard clays and boulders
Shallow water operation (11-17m)
Higher than anticipated progress rates ( m/hour) and lower than expected tow forces (average 42Te)
Turn radius of <50m achieved with trenching plough
Boulder clearance run performed in stiff clays

12. Westermost Rough OWF
A $10 million boulder clearing project for Dong Energy
33 routes cleared in high currents on spring as well as neap tides
20m corridor required
Generally 5 passes per string, Centre line, 2 x Wing lines (accuracy essential) and lay downs at either end (accuracy essential)
Campaign was 72 days to include - Ploughing, Surveying, Transiting, Port calls
Mobilisation in 47 hours in Aberdeen
Demobilisation in 24 hours
Within the 20m wide corridors between the 35 towers towers there were 48,000 on seabed target boulders 0.35m and above.
The project was on schedule and on budget.

13. Displaced Boulder 11

14. SCAR Seabed Trenching System: Anticipate work Scopes 2015 / 2016
Date
Up coming Projects
Q1 – Q4 2015
European Oil & Gas Project - Trenching, Pipelay & Backfill Q
North Sea Oil & Gas Boulder Clearing Project Q
North Sea Oil & Gas Pre cut trenching and backfill Project
North Sea - Installation of Tidal Turbines using Ambient Lifting
Q2 /Q3 2016
European – Offshore Wind Farm Inter array and Pre cut Installation of Wind Turbines using Ambient Lifting
Q2/Q3 2016
UK Offshore – Boulder clearing Pre – cut / Post lay and backfill

15. International Approach

16. PR and Marketing

17. Strong Sales Message Keep to your business ethos and Values
Value Proposition
Versatility
Flexibility
Speed
Robust
Simple
Cost Effective

18. mcowie@ecosse-subsea.com 01330 826870 Conclusions
To be successful in the offshore wind and marine market ESS believe:
Export our skills, expertise and solutions
Attend/participate at key events
Establish a flexible sales approach
Publish track record
Network with the relevant parties