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Consultant Offshore Power Production Evaluation

Remote, Remote
For one of our clients in the utilities industry we’re looking for a freelance Consultant for Offshore gas-fired power production evaluation:

Project description:
The idea of the project “Offshore gas to power” is to evaluate gas-fired power production on jack-up platforms. Goal of the project is to assess the comparison between offshore and onshore gas-fired power plants in Germany, Benelux and the UK.

Task description
  • Conduct an analysis and estimate the offshore relevant cost elements, which means the CAPEX and OPEX of a gas-fired power production platform. Create documentation of this and present it to the client. The results are the basis for the client´s decision whether or not to deep dive further in this idea.
  • Compare the pros and cons of a new built vs. second hand platform based on experience and possibly based on the information coming from platform suppliers and expert interviews.
  • Identify, analyze and present the environmental, permitting, and HSSE elements of this potential project based on experience. Include the findings and insights of this in the enrichment PowerPoint slide deck.
  • Analyze and point out regulatory specifics of operations of platforms, considering EU-regulations (EU Parliament adopted a new directive on the safety of offshore oil and gas activities in May 2013) or other international law systems. Include the findings in the enrichment PowerPoint slide deck.
  • Consult the client project team on the main cost drivers of CAPEX and OPEX compared to onshore production. The findings of this explanation will be part of the quantitative and qualitative comparison between offshore and onshore production.
  • Identify opportunities and risks to use depleted oil or gas fields for carbon capture and storage. Create a PowerPoint slide deck with the findings of the identified opportunities and risk.
  • Create a PowerPoint slide deck which includes the pros and cons of a new built vs. second hand platform, the environmental, permitting, and HSSE elements of a project like this, regulatory specifics of operations of platforms and the opportunities and risks to use depleted oil or gas fields for carbon capture and storage. Present it to the the client project team.

Requirements:
  • Expert with longtime experience in building and operating jack-up platforms, e.g. from offshore exploration and production of oil or gas business
  • Very good holistic overview of commercial and technical aspects regarding CAPEX and OPEX of platforms like this
  • Ideally expert with combined experience of Engineering and commercial business would be excellent
Project start: November
Project duration: 4+ months
Project capacity: 5 hrs./week
Project location:  Remote

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