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Bourbon invests in fleetwide emissions monitoring
French offshore support vessel (OSV) owner Bourbon will deploy data analytics and vessel tracking to reduce fuel consumption and operating costs
Bourbon Marine & Logistics has committed to deploy software to monitor and track its 104-vessel fleet with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving fuel efficiency.
The French offshore support vessel (OSV) owner has already cut emissions from a pilot project involving 25 of its ships and wants similar results from the other 79 vessels.
Bourbon has signed a partnership agreement with Opsealog to roll out technology to monitor its fleet as the next stage of its digitalisation strategy.
Opsealog uses real-time data, enhanced reporting and analytics to get an accurate picture of each vessel’s fuel consumption and carbon emissions, and help Bourbon unlock tangible actions to immediately improve their performance.
This agreement covers Bourbon’s fleet of platform supply vessels (PSVs) and anchor handling tug and supply vessels which operate in West Africa, Asia and the Gulf of Mexico.
It follows a pilot deployment where Opsealog was used on 25 OSVs over six months, when Bourbon achieved average monthly emissions savings of 45 to 50 tonnes of CO2 per vessel.
“Our collaboration with Opsealog is marking a new milestone in the digitalisation of our fleet that was initiated about 10 years ago with the design of highly efficient vessels fitted with diesel-electric propulsion,” said Bourbon Marine & Logistics director of standards and innovation Frédéric Siohan.
Full fleet deployment will start with real-time vessel tracking and streamlined reporting, with data streams integrated into Opsealog’s Marinsights platform to provide insights enabling Bourbon to optimise vessels’ operational profiles to reduce fuel consumption, operating costs and associated GHG emissions.
“Through enhanced real-time monitoring of operations and fuel consumption, the partnership will equip our teams with the right insights, founded in data, to improve our fleet’s day-to-day performance and reduce its carbon emissions,” said Mr Siohan.
This initiative will support Bourbon’s commitment to reduce its environmental footprint through fleet optimisation, and to proactively prepare for upcoming regulatory requirements that will soon cover the OSV sector, such as the European Union’s emissions trading system (ETS) and monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) regulations.
“In the longer term, having this comprehensive overview of our fleet and potential improvements will enable us to establish new benchmarks for operational excellence and lead the way in sustainable practices,” Mr Siohan added. “This also offers our customers practical solutions to progress their own decarbonisation journeys.”
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