Strategic consulting for hydrogen deployment

We are dedicated to helping you identify the key drivers that inspire innovation within your company. We thoroughly analyse all potential evolution opportunities and provide you with the essential information needed to make strategic decisions. Our focus is on the technological, market, and business model aspects, ensuring you understand the technical and economic feasibility of your project. We also assist you in developing a robust strategy for intellectual property management.

We leverage our extensive experience to help you actively participate in the most significant Research & Development & Innovation programs and regional funds. When your company's innovation priorities align with a funding opportunity, we offer our expertise and our network of excellence centers to support your access to subsidised finance and project management. We provide comprehensive technical, financial, and administrative support throughout the proposal preparation and the project itself, once awarded.

We offer strategic services in the hydrogen sector tailored to your needs. Our market analysis identifies trends, opportunities, and risks to guide your project's positioning. We assess capital and operational costs (CapEx/OpEx) to ensure economic viability and optimise your project investments. Our business plans integrate these insights, outlining strategies, financial forecasts, and risk management to advance your projects successfully.

We offer a comprehensive technology scouting service tailored to your needs. We begin by analysing international patents, scientific databases, and startups to map out state-of-the-art technologies from technical, commercial, social, and environmental perspectives. We then focus on your specific needs to identify key opportunities using a holistic approach that includes the H2 value chain, potential partners and stakeholders. We engage directly with technology providers and assess future development trajectories to ensure you gain maximum strategic advantage.

We leverage our extensive experience to support you in verifying and validating innovative technologies and projects across various industrial sectors, including offshore pipelines transporting hydrogen. We evaluate and approve these emerging technologies through our "Approval in Principle" (AiP) and "Technology Qualification" (TQ) processes, based on our own guidelines. This service is designed to provide you with the highest level of reliability and safety for technologies not covered by traditional regulations and standards.

We offer comprehensive technical and financial due diligence to provide you with an independent project assessment. We support key players, financial institutions, and investors throughout the entire investment process, from initial evaluation to project completion. Our in-depth assessment, based on highly qualified technical skills, is designed to identify potential critical issues from both technical and financial perspectives, ensuring your project's success.

We are dedicated to supporting you from the initial concept and pre-feasibility studies, helping you screen viable concepts for any project or specific units within larger designs. We highlight key elements such as project schedule, technological risks, flexibility of the solutions considered, strengths and resilience of the proposed solutions, and environmental footprint, among others. Our Concept, Basic, and Front-End Engineering Designs (FEED) are provided in compliance with internationally recognized standards and design codes. We use commercially and technically recognized software, combined with the engineering judgment developed by our experienced engineers, to tackle new challenges.

We provide comprehensive support for the successful execution and management of your hydrogen projects, from initial concept to final validation and throughout the entire value chain. Our expertise includes Project Management Consultancy (PMC), Owner’s Engineering (OE), and Project Validation, ensuring that every aspect of your project is managed with the highest standards of safety, efficiency, and innovation.

We bring extensive experience in managing Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) issues across all types of projects. We are committed to applying safety programs that comply with best practices, norms, and standards, using the most advanced technical solutions. Our team is here to help you define HSE policies and strategies, and we provide assistance during the revision process with competent national and international authorities. Through specific studies and analyses, we support you in making informed decisions, achieving optimal performance, minimising risks, and maintaining a safe and satisfactory workplace.

We are dedicated to supporting you with siting, permitting, and licensing services tailored to local regulatory requirements. Whether you are constructing new facilities or upgrading existing ones, our team is here to assist you every step of the way. We leverage our offices and a network of local licensed consultants to provide comprehensive services, including assessing relevant environmental, territorial, and sector constraints. We also offer evaluation and thematic mapping of physical and environmental aspects, screening and selecting optimal sites or corridors, and assisting during permitting procedures. This includes preparing technical documents and liaising with relevant competent authorities to ensure a smooth and efficient process.

We are dedicated to providing comprehensive marine surveys tailored to your needs in the energy sector. Our complete package includes geophysical, environmental, and geotechnical investigations, ensuring that you receive accurate and reliable results. Supported by a strong laboratory and experienced geotechnical engineers, we guarantee that our findings are sound and fit for your final design. We offer a full range of site surveys for project development, whether offshore, nearshore, or onshore. Our services provide you with the essential data needed for the design of all man-made structures and address special issues such as geotechnical engineering and monitoring.

We understand that the safe storage and usage of hydrogen as an energy carrier is crucial for your projects. That's why we focus on developing materials and components such as vessels, pipelines, and fittings that meet the highest safety standards. By working closely with materials manufacturers and users, and utilising our state-of-the-art laboratories for high-pressure testing, we are committed to creating innovative materials, technologies, and solutions. Our goal is to help you overcome challenges and unlock the full potential of hydrogen, enabling the industry to meet ambitious climate goals.

We are committed to maximising the operability and safety of your existing assets while minimising maintenance costs. Our innovative services are designed to help you easily evaluate maintenance, repair, or replacement decisions through periodic verification, assessment, and certification of your equipment. By successfully extending the life of your assets, we help you meet regulatory challenges and adhere to increasingly stringent safety standards. In addition to verifying the fitness for service of your assets, we focus on the sustainability of our services, optimizing performance and reliability, and reducing risks to human life and the environment.

Our multidisciplinary team of experts is here to provide you with top-notch quality and safety testing services for hydrogen materials, components, and full-scale systems. Our state-of-the-art facilities include the Delta H Laboratory, which is dedicated to evaluating material and component performance in the presence of gaseous hydrogen at very high pressures (up to 1000 bar, 14500 psi). We also offer a combustion pilot line for the development and testing of industrial combustion systems, as well as a demo center for Direct Iron ore Reduction (DRI) to help decarbonize the steel industry.

We provide four distinct digital services tailored to enhance the efficiency of your energy projects. Our offerings include data acquisition and monitoring, AI-based data analysis and prediction, digital twins of real assets, and customized digital applications. These services are designed to support you in optimising your operations and achieving your project goals.