The true success of energy transition requires a drastic step towards energy sobriety. Direct use of environmental forces, such as wind, sun or waves will guarantee true sustainability of our future shipping and transport activities.
Zero emission power solutions are on the rise in all sectors and require new type of expertise and technologies. Sharing such expertise is key at this very moment of the transition, as we are all about to make important choices to create a sustainable future.
Renewable energy can be found in many ways across our oceans. True sustainable alternative energy carriers are at reach. Their production and storage can benefit from past experience in offshore activities. However, different approaches and expertises are also needed to respect and possibly repair our environment.
Human activities at sea requires a drastic change in our relation to the ocean. From today we must guarantee the sustainability of our activities: fishing, farming, biomass production or life conservation and protection. Much is possible if we are successful in taking part in the symbiosis of this delicate eco-system.
Dare to set ambitious goals, apply novel techniques to produce renewable ocean energy, rethink transport & shipping to reduce drastically energy use, set sails on all ships, develop and choose zero emission power technologies, protect and cherish the environment, while using all available past experience and knowledge from the Offshore sector: this is how we want to create, together, a sustainable future for Oceans, Energy and Shipping. Welcome onboard the BlueWeek 2022.
The maritime industry will come together again in 2021, with the FPSO JIP Week and the BlueWeek set to be held between May 31-June 4. All activities will be live streamed to reach out to you wherever you are on our blue planet. The seminars and the Forum on Wednesday will be open to the public, (following registration), while JIP meetings will be open to members only.
We need actions today if we are to build a strong foundation for the future. Taking decisions with long-term consequences and making choices in the short-term are not easy. So sharing experience and knowledge is the best possible way forward. By organising such an event, we want to help the maritime sector gain confidence, mitigate doubts, be inspired, innovative, dare to try, fail and try again, think, rethink, design and engineer operations with alternative sustainable solutions.
Please join us – virtually or in person – between May 31-June 4 to power the future with fresh ideas!
Our team members have a strong technological background and work daily on projects, research and innovation for the maritime sector. Their involvement in the BlueWeek is motivated by a wish to share knowledge and create synergies between people seeking sustainable alternative solutions in the maritime sector. If you wish to contribute to our seminars, do not hesitate to contact them! If you want to host a BlueWeek, please contact the chairman of the Blue Forum.
Chairman Blue Forum
“More than ever, collaboration is needed to realise a necessary and ambitious energy transition. Act to keep our planet blue.”
Chairman Natural Propulsion seminar
“Using natural resources and the environment to power ships.”
Chairman Zero Emission seminar
“Solutions to reach the 2050 emission ambitions and beyond.”
Chairman Ocean Energy seminar
“Let’s make the ocean our sustainable food and energy source.”
Chairwoman Blue Life seminar
“Shaping the future of sustainable activities at sea.”
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10.00 hr | Members only meetings: please check the exact planning directly with your consortium or project leader.
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12.00 hr | Registration & Lunch |
13.00 hr | Opening Blue Week 2022 |
Guilhem Gaillarde, Chairman Blue Forum Rogier Eggers, Chairman Natural Propulsion Seminar Gavin Allwright, Secretary International WindShip Assocation IWSA | |
13.10 hr | Session 1: Modelling |
Franceco Stella, Performance Engineer, Computed Wing Sail, France
Joost Schot, Project Manager, MARIN, The Netherlands
Sofia Werner, Manager Strategic Research, SSPA, Sweden
Joshua Lacey, Assistant Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
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14.45 hr 15.10 hr | Pause Session 2: Project updates |
Rogier Eggers, Project Manager, MARIN, The Netherlands
Thomas James, Marine Business Development, Hexcel Corporation, USA
Yves Parlier, CEO, Beyond the Sea, France
Jean Zanuttini, President, Neoline, France
Miles Keeney-Ritchie, head of company, Aloft Shipping, UK
Sarah Arntz, COO, Wattlab, the Netherlands
James McGarley, Managing Director, Bluewater Engineering Limited, UK
Anton Kisjes, Project Manager, MARIN, The Netherlands | |
16.20 hr 16.45 hr | Pause Session 3: Ships & Propulsors |
David Ferrer Desclaux, CTO, Bound4Blue, Spain
Greg Johnston, Founder & CEO, Advanced Wing Systems, USA/Australia/Spain
Nils Joyeux, CEO & Co-founder, Zephyr & Borrée, France
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18.00 hr | Closure |
9.00 hr | Members only meetings: please check the exact planning directly with your consortium or project leader.
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12.00 hr | Registration & Lunch |
13.00 hr | Zero Emission Seminar |
Welcome words and opening: Christian Veldhuis, Chairman Zero Emission Seminar | |
13.10 hr - | Session 1: Ships solutions Chair & moderator: Christian Veldhuis |
Emiliano Austi, Director Fleet Technology Maersk, Denmark
Alexandre Bellot, Research Project Coordinator, LMG Marin, Norway/France
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14.10 hr 14.20 hr - | Small pause Session 2: Storage Challenges Chair & moderator: Christian Veldhuis |
Hans te Siepe, Director, H2 Circular Fuel BV, the Netherlands
Willemien Verdonk, Senior Specialist, Lloyds Register, the Netherlands
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15.20 hr 15.50 hr - | Coffee and refreshment break Session 3: Power solutions Chair & moderator: Christian Veldhuis |
Kaj Portin, General Manager Sustainable Fuels & Decarbonisation, Wartsila, Finland
Jogchum Bruinsma, Application Manager Maritime, Nedstack, the Netherlands
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16.50 hr 17.00 hr - | Small pause Session 4: Zero Emission Chain Chair & moderator: Christian Veldhuis |
Jelena Dolecek, Water Revolution Foundation, the Netherlands
Alex Grasman, Specialist, MARIN, the Netherlands
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18.00 hr | Drinks at the bow |
from 8.30 hr | Registration & coffee |
8.30 hr | Morning pre-forum financial Session: Sustainable Investments enabling your route to zero A round table organised with Prow Capital, ABN AMRO, ING Bank, Rotterdam Maritime Service Community |
10.00 hr | Opening FORUM & Welcome words Guilhem Gaillarde & Olaf Waals, MARIN Petra de Groene, Director Economic Affairs and Sustainability, City of Rotterdam |
10.15 hr | Session 1: Renewable Energy Production & Storage Chair & moderator: Saskia Kunst - Chairman Supervisory Board Energy Transition Fund Rotterdam, Director Switch2Offshore Quandr session and audience interaction: Olaf Waals, Manager Offshore @ MARIN |
Fons Huijs, Consultant Floating Wind, GustoMSC, the Netherlands
Don Hoogendoorn, CTO, SolarDuck, the Netherlands
Jaap de Wilde, Senior Project Manager, MARIN, the Netherlands
Grégory Bartholomé, Engie, France
Robert Werner, General Manager, Heindl Energy, Germany
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12.00 hr 13.30 hr | Lunch Session 2: Sustainable Alternative Energy Carriers & Power: changes ahead in operations & logistics Chair & moderator: Guilhem Gaillarde, Manager Ships @ MARIN Quandr session and audience interaction: Olaf Waals, Manager Offshore @ MARIN |
Govert Wagenaar, Bluewater, the Netherlands
Philippe Lavagna, Product account Manager, Imodco / SBM Offshore Group, Monaco
Maarten van der Klip, PROW Capital, the Netherlands
Kentaro Shima, General Manager, Technology Research Center, MOL, Japan
Gavin Allwright, Secretary, International Wind Ship Association, UK
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15.15 hr 15.45 hr | Coffee & refreshment break Session 3: Local & Regional energy transition actions and strategies Chair & moderator: Guilhem Gaillarde, Manager Ships @ MARIN Quandr session and audience interaction: Olaf Waals, Manager Offshore @ MARIN |
Maarten Fonteijn, Head of Thrust, Enviu, Jonas Brendelberger, Co-founder zepp.solutions, Gijsbert van Marrewijk, Co-founder Flying Fish, the Netherlands
Meike Kolthof , Sustainability Manager, Heerema, the Netherlands
Nikolaos Chrysochoidis Antsos, Principal Hydrogen Consultant, Ricardo, UK
Pep Malagrava Rigo, DG Energy & climate Change and Ferran Rosa Gaspar, Institut Balear de l’Energia, Spain
Richard Rocheleau, Director, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, USA
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17.30 h 19.00 hr | Drinks on the deck Dinner |
8.30 hr | Registration |
9.00 hr | Mooring systems for Offshore Renewable Energy - morning sessions |
Chairmen: Arun Dugal (SOFEC) & Erik-Jan de Ridder Contributions covering experience of mooring systems gained in the Offshore Oil&Gas sector to be possibly applied for floating wind and solar as well as storage units will be presented. · 10 Years of the Mooring Integrity User Group – looking back and forward. A. Duggal, SOFEC · Overview of Floating Wind Development in Taiwan. KT Ma, Professor, National Taiwan University 10.00 Coffee break · FOW Mooring – Key Challenges & Opportunities and a new JIP to address Reliability in Design. T. Hordvik, DNV · Synthetic Rope Technologies: Addressing the Mooring Industry’s Evolving Requirements. C. Dewijngaert & G.Mozsgai, Bridon-Bekaert · Open Discussion: Future Requirements for Mooring Systems? | |
12.00 hr 13.30 hr | Lunch Mooring systems for Offshore Renewable Energy - afternoon sessions |
· High Strength Mooring Chain – Status & Actions. Dag-Børre Lillestøl, DNV · Mooring Chain Fatigue – New Knowledge with input to both O&G and Floating Wind Systems. O. Gabrielsen, Equinor · NorMoor JIP Phase 4 – On Chain Reassessment & Life Extension. S. Okkenhaug, DNV 15.00 Coffee break · Experiences with Full Scale Turret Mooring Measurements. B. Bodaghi & R. Leeuwenburgh, Bluewater · Mooring Line Failure Detection in the Absence of Load Monitoring. M. Naciri, SBM Offshore · Open Discussion: The Future of Mooring Monitoring for Improved O&M Performance | |
17.00 hr | Drinks on the deck |
Energy, food and nature are all competing for space on the North Sea. How do we find the ideal balance between all stakeholders involved? The North Sea is one the one hand already an important source of energy and food, and on the other hand also our largest nature reserve. At the same time, we are getting increasingly more dependent on it by the day. We are asking a lot from the North Sea and new plans to gain more from it are stacking up. That is why the Community of Practice North Sea (CoP North Sea), TKI Wind op Zee, and MARIN join forces to show a glimpse of a successful future of our dear North Sea. The challenge at hand: how can all the stakeholders together make the North Sea a balanced powerhouse? | |
9.00 hr | Registration & reception |
9.30 hr | Opening & Welcome |
Sophie van Hoytema, day presenter Floor Spaargaren, Blue Life seminar chairwoman | |
9.40 hr | Plenary session |
Bob Meijer, director, TKI Wind Op Zee
Heleen Vollers, Stichting De Noordzee (North Sea Foundation) Nico Buytendijk, program manager CoP Noordzee Julius Smith, Ørsted Floor Spaargaren, MARIN | |
10.25 hr 10.45 hr | Short break Session 1 |
Our current economic models are based on the principle of economic growth. Within this line of thinking, we want to keep growing our activity at the North Sea and use up more space. However, the North Sea is not infinite, which makes us wonder if there is an alternative, more sustainable business model to explore. We look at what really matters for a sustainable future and how we can use it wisely, whilst at the same time still prosper. Deltares - ROAD2SID consortium
Wind turbines deliver us the essential renewable energy we need for our society. | |
12.00 hr 13.00 hr | Lunch Session 2 |
Can you eat it? Can you make clothes out of it? Can you make money with/ from it? Seeing as the answer is ‘yes’ to each question, you might start to think that seaweed is the new gold. What can you actually do with seaweed? How big will the demand be, and how can we make that demand grow? And why should we invest in seaweed? We ask the new experts on this natural resource why it’s smart to move from bitcoins to seaweed in the new blue economy.
For the construction and maintenance of wind farms, an array of vessels are needed. With the offshore wind sector reaching maturity, the demand for more sustainable ships is growing. And the industry is responding to it. This is one other step needed towards emission-free wind farms.
The installation of wind turbines can be a disruptive process for the natural environment in which they are build, such as vibrations when drilling a monopile into the ground. GBM Works is one of the companies working on a solution to mitigate this disruption. Additionally, they are part of the consortium of SIMOX, a project that is researching alternatives to conventional hammering. But what are the consequences of these ‘new sounds’ and how can this project help policy in setting new norms and ways of measuring sound. | |
14.45 hr 15.00 hr | Break Session 3 |
There are different types of industrial areas at sea such as hydrogen, wind, and food farms. Looking at the activities above and under the water surface, is there a way to combine multiple activities at one location. At the moment, multiple pilots are being rolled out and can hopefully give us valuable insight into large-scale applications.
Wind and solar energy can complement each other, for they derive their energy from different weather elements. Some pilots are already in place near- and offshore, but is floating solar something we can fortify within our catalogue of renewable energy at sea? Looking at large-scale floating solar, some questions arise: how large can build solar panel fields on the water, how much space do they take up, and what are the effects of shadow for sea life below the panels? And what about other forms of renewable energy such as wave and tidal? What is their place in this ecosystem? | |
16.00 hr | Drinks and closure - End of the 2022 BlueWeek edition |
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