Master analysis collaboration settlement to ascertain Seatrium-TCOMS Ocean Lab was signed by (L to R) Chris Ong, CEO of Seatrium, and Professor Chan Eng Soon, CEO of TCOMS. The signing was witnessed by Singapore’s Minister of State for Trade and Industry Ms Low Yen Ling (second row, middle), Mark Gainsborough, Chairman of Seatrium (second row, left), and Frederick Chew, CEO of A*STAR (second row, proper).
Seatrium Limited, the brand new Singapore-based participant fashioned by the merger of Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), is up and working. In a sign of the place it sees the long run, it has simply reached an settlement with the Technology Center for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS) to ascertain the Seatrium-TCOMS Ocean Lab.
With this settlement, Seatrium and TCOMS will collectively pursue 5 foremost analysis thrusts centered on offshore renewable vitality resembling floating offshore wind techniques; cleaner oil and fuel options together with good floating manufacturing platforms; good marine techniques resembling autonomous vessels and inexperienced ships; new vitality options together with ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2) and carbon seize, utilization and storage (CCUS); in addition to digitalization & information analytics for enhanced predictability and reliability of ocean techniques and its infrastructure.
The settlement builds on joint initiatives carried out over the previous 5 years between TCOMS and Seatrium’s predecessor corporations, starting from the digital twinning of autonomous tugs and offshore vitality techniques to the design evolution and validation of future offshore wind platforms and marine infrastructure.
Some of the initiatives made use of the TCOMS ocean basin facility which may recreate excessive ocean circumstances that could be confronted by ocean techniques and infrastructure throughout their asset lifecycle. Information derived from numerical simulations and bodily checks within the ocean basin allow the business’s designers and TCOMS’ scientists to validate how the ocean techniques will carry out. They will even use this data to boost their system’s discipline efficiency, by way of applied sciences resembling digital twinning enabled by good sensing, synthetic intelligence and information analytics.
Chris Ong, CEO of Seatrium, stated, “We are glad to partner with a world class research center like TCOMS to advance our capabilities in the area of offshore renewables, new energy and cleaner solutions for the offshore, marine and energy industries. This collaboration will allow us to accelerate our strategic growth into the renewable and clean energy segments and further diversify our business portfolio into new areas of offshore renewables, electrification, gas value chain as well as carbon capture and storage solutions. Co-innovation by talents in both organizations will enable testing, simulations, digital twinning and analysis to be performed in this world class ocean basin facility. We look forward to pushing new boundaries of engineering excellence to create transformative and sustainable offshore, marine and energy solutions for a greener future.”
Professor Chan Eng Soon, CEO of TCOMS, stated, “We are delighted to have the opportunity to support Seatrium in their transformative journey to develop innovative engineering solutions for the offshore, marine and new energy industries, especially in advancing the design and operational capabilities of ocean systems deployed in challenging marine environments. With advanced capabilities such as cyber- physical modeling and simulation, TCOMS researchers and scientists work closely with our industry partners to co-create solutions and stress-test solutions for performance, safety and sustainability. Together with Seatrium, we will also seek to nurture Singapore’s engineering talent, particularly our younger generation of engineers, to create and build future ocean systems and infrastructure.”
