Independent engineering judgement for offshore and subsea infrastructure.

OMC provides senior engineering, project assurance and technical advisory support across the development and delivery of complex offshore infrastructure.

Capabilities

Engineering & Delivery

Engineering leadership, installation engineering and constructability from project definition through offshore execution.

  • Engineering management

  • Installation engineering

  • Constructability

  • Subsea / SURF

  • Cable systems

  • Tender & project definition

Assurance & Recovery

Independent technical review, project assurance and experienced intervention where engineering or delivery requires challenge.

  • Technical review

  • Project readiness

  • Owner / client representation

  • Technical investigation

  • Recovery and remedial support

Technical Risk & Capital

Engineering insight supporting asset, project and investment decisions where technical uncertainty influences value.

  • Technical risk advisory

  • Technical due diligence

  • Cost of non-quality

  • Capital-sensitive technical assessment

OMC can also support defined assignments through embedded specialist engineering resources and trusted associates.

Experience

Subsea Production & SURF

OMC draws on extensive experience across subsea field development, SURF and offshore construction, spanning flexible flowlines and risers, umbilicals, subsea structures, mooring and riser interfaces, installation engineering and pre-commissioning. This experience has been developed across contractor, operator and partner environments on major projects in the North Sea, West of Shetland, West Africa and internationally, providing a practical understanding of how design, installation methodology and offshore execution interact.

Subsea Cables & Telecommunications

Our subsea cable experience extends across power transmission, offshore wind and international telecommunications infrastructure. It includes cable installation and burial, route and seabed assessment, protection systems, crossings, trenching, maintenance strategy and offshore repair considerations. This breadth provides OMC with a cross-sector perspective on cable systems, recognising that many of the underlying installation, protection and asset-integrity challenges remain consistent regardless of the infrastructure being connected.

Offshore Wind

OMC brings substantial offshore wind experience covering export and inter-array cable systems, cable protection, crossings, burial, landfalls and HDD interfaces, contractor engineering and offshore installation readiness. Experience spans both developer and contractor environments, including major European and Asia-Pacific developments, with particular emphasis on the interface between engineering intent, installation methodology and the realities of offshore execution.

Marine & Installation Engineering

Marine and installation engineering sit at the centre of OMC's experience. Our background covers constructability, installation methodology, vessel and spread assessment, deck layouts, seafastening, installation aids, offshore procedures, vessel readiness and execution support across a wide range of subsea infrastructure. This practical offshore perspective allows engineering decisions to be considered not simply in terms of whether something can be designed, but whether it can be safely and reliably installed.

CCUS & Emerging Infrastructure

OMC's experience increasingly extends into new forms of offshore infrastructure, including carbon capture and storage, tidal energy and other energy-transition technologies. Recent work has included offshore CO₂ transportation infrastructure, HDD and landfall interfaces and associated pipeline, power and communications scopes, complementing earlier experience in marine renewable technology. OMC approaches emerging infrastructure by applying established offshore engineering and construction principles while recognising where new technologies introduce genuinely different risks and uncertainties.

About OMC

Odyssey Marine Consultants was established to provide independent engineering judgement across offshore and subsea infrastructure.

Our work is grounded in the practical realities of project delivery: how engineering decisions influence constructability, offshore execution, technical risk and ultimately project outcomes. OMC supports clients where experienced technical judgement, independent challenge or additional engineering leadership can help bring greater clarity to complex decisions.

The consultancy works across offshore energy and subsea infrastructure, including oil and gas, offshore wind, subsea power and telecommunications, CCUS and emerging marine technologies.

How We Work

OMC operates as a focused, senior-led technical practice.

Assignments are approached from first principles, with emphasis on understanding the technical problem, the project context and the decisions that genuinely matter. Our role may range from engineering leadership and installation support through independent assurance, project review, technical investigation and risk advisory.

Where additional specialist capability is required, OMC can draw upon experienced associates and subject-matter expertise appropriate to the assignment, while retaining clear technical responsibility and direct senior involvement.

We believe good technical advice should be proportionate, practical and capable of being acted upon.

Independence

OMC is independent of vessel ownership, equipment supply and construction contracting.

Our advice is therefore shaped by the technical requirements of the assignment rather than by the need to promote a particular asset, technology or solution.

That independence allows OMC to work across contractor, developer, operator and stakeholder environments, providing technical challenge where required while remaining focused on safe, practical and commercially realistic project delivery.

Barry Jones MSc CEng CMarEng FIMarEST

Founder & Principal Engineer

Barry Jones is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Marine Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, with more than 30 years of experience in offshore and subsea engineering.

His career has progressed from subsea product design and project engineering through installation engineering, offshore construction and engineering management, with later roles spanning contractor, developer, operator and independent advisory environments.

Experience includes flexible pipelines and risers, umbilicals, subsea structures, submarine telecommunications, offshore power cables, SURF developments, marine construction, cable protection and burial, offshore wind and CCUS infrastructure. His work has covered concept and FEED studies, tendering, detailed engineering, contractor evaluation, installation methodology, offshore readiness, execution assurance and project review.

Barry has held senior engineering and installation roles with organisations including Saipem, DeepOcean and Ørsted, alongside operator and partner-side assignments with OMV and TotalEnergies. His international project experience includes the North Sea, West of Shetland, West Africa, Russia, Australia, Taiwan and the United States.

OMC reflects that breadth of experience: combining detailed engineering understanding with the practical judgement that comes from seeing projects from design through to offshore execution.

Discuss an assignment

For enquiries regarding engineering, project assurance or independent technical advisory support, please contact OMC directly.