Chapter 3
Comparative Financial Analysis of Marine
Multipurpose Platforms Projects:
MERMAID and TROPOS Projects
Saúl Torres-Ortega, Pedro Díaz-Simal, Fernando Del-Jesus, Raúl Guanche,
and Phoebe Koundouri
Abstract The Oceans of Tomorrow (FP7-OCEAN) initiative aimed to foster
multidisciplinary approaches between different economic and scientific sectors and
disciplines, maintaining a common focus on marine and maritime challenges. Under
this umbrella, three projects were developed focusing on the development of multiuse offshore platforms: H2Ocean, TROPOS and MERMAID. The development of
all these three projects included the design of different concepts in terms of study
cases and application of the main findings of the projects. The financial aspect of
these design concepts was carried out in all projects, but the assumptions made to
perform this analysis were quite different among the projects. Although none of the
Oceans of Tomorrow projects had the objective to produce a viable proposal from
the economic point of view, it is necessary to analyse the possibilities of the concepts
developed. A common methodology and parameters need to be used in order to
achieve a constancy and homogeneity that allows comparing the results. This
chapter (This work has received funding from the European Union’s 7th Framework
Program under grant agreement N
288710 and N
288192) defines a common
financial framework that permits to obtain comparable results of the financial
performance of the different design concepts proposed in the Oceans of Tomorrow
projects.
Keywords H2Ocean · TROPOS · MERMAID · Financial framework · Multi-use
offshore platform
S. Torres-Ortega · P. Díaz-Simal · F. Del-Jesus · R. Guanche
Environmental Hydraulics Institute, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
P. Koundouri (*)
School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athens, Greece
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Europe, Paris, France
EIT Climate–KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
e-mail: pkoundouri@aueb.gr
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56847-4_3
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Comparative Financial Analysis of Marine
Multipurpose Platforms Projects:
MERMAID and TROPOS Projects
Saúl Torres-Ortega, Pedro Díaz-Simal, Fernando Del-Jesus, Raúl Guanche,
and Phoebe Koundouri
Abstract The Oceans of Tomorrow (FP7-OCEAN) initiative aimed to foster
multidisciplinary approaches between different economic and scientific sectors and
disciplines, maintaining a common focus on marine and maritime challenges. Under
this umbrella, three projects were developed focusing on the development of multiuse offshore platforms: H2Ocean, TROPOS and MERMAID. The development of
all these three projects included the design of different concepts in terms of study
cases and application of the main findings of the projects. The financial aspect of
these design concepts was carried out in all projects, but the assumptions made to
perform this analysis were quite different among the projects. Although none of the
Oceans of Tomorrow projects had the objective to produce a viable proposal from
the economic point of view, it is necessary to analyse the possibilities of the concepts
developed. A common methodology and parameters need to be used in order to
achieve a constancy and homogeneity that allows comparing the results. This
chapter (This work has received funding from the European Union’s 7th Framework
Program under grant agreement N
288710 and N
288192) defines a common
financial framework that permits to obtain comparable results of the financial
performance of the different design concepts proposed in the Oceans of Tomorrow
projects.
Keywords H2Ocean · TROPOS · MERMAID · Financial framework · Multi-use
offshore platform
S. Torres-Ortega · P. Díaz-Simal · F. Del-Jesus · R. Guanche
Environmental Hydraulics Institute, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
P. Koundouri (*)
School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athens, Greece
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Europe, Paris, France
EIT Climate–KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
e-mail: pkoundouri@aueb.gr
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
P. Koundouri (ed.), The Ocean of Tomorrow, Environment & Policy 57,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56847-4_3
39