Partrac

What Partrac does

Partrac is a UK-headquartered specialist metocean and seabed consultancy serving the offshore wind industry and adjacent marine sectors. Founded in 2003 in Glasgow by Dr Kevin Black, Sam Athey, and Peter Wilson, the company provides offshore measurement campaigns (deploying floating LiDAR, wave buoys, and current profilers), metocean consultancy and numerical modelling, marine environmental impact assessments, seabed mobility studies, and engineering design criteria support. The company operates from three UK offices (Edinburgh headquarters, Newcastle, and Devon) and has delivered measurement campaigns for major global offshore wind projects including Dogger Bank (3.6GW), Seagreen (1,075MW), Hywind Scotland, Moray West, and Oriel Windfarm.

The company's core technology portfolio comprises three proprietary products: V-LiDAR, a fleet of advanced dual-LiDAR buoys designed by Partrac and manufactured by Osbit at the Port of Blyth following a £10 million Venterra Group investment; V-Data, a cloud-based platform launched in June 2026 providing real-time API access to metocean measurement data with automated pipelines and quality control; and OCEAN.DAT, a GIS and database product containing over 100 parameter map layers and 500+ metocean hindcast timeseries across the Celtic Sea Region. These products complement the company's primary service offerings in metocean survey, metocean consultancy, and seabed/hydrodynamics services.

Partrac monetises predominantly through project-based professional services contracts with Tier-1 offshore wind developers and operators, supplemented by data product sales (OCEAN.DAT) and emerging subscription/platform revenue (V-Data). The client base includes Equinor, SSE Renewables, TotalEnergies, EDF Energy Renewables, Parkwind/ESB, and other global developers. Since June 2022, Partrac has operated as a subsidiary of Venterra Group Plc, a publicly traded offshore wind services company with 700+ professionals, providing access to broader market reach, capital, and cross-sell opportunities across the wind farm lifecycle. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales via senior leadership engagement, combined with industry event presence and direct technical networking.

Name

Partrac

Legal name

Partrac Ltd

Website

https://partrac.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Partrac is a UK specialist metocean and seabed consultancy, founded 2003, providing measurement campaigns, floating LiDAR surveys, and numerical modelling for offshore wind developers, cable operators, and aquaculture clients globally. Operating as a subsidiary of Venterra Group Plc since 2022.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Metocean and Seabed Consultancy Services

NAICS

Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (541360), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (334511), Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812), Oil & Gas Field Services, Nec (1389)

akta.pro primary industry

Marine Automation, Control & PLC/SCADA Systems (IMAJAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Navigation & Aids-to-Navigation Works (Beacons, Buoys, Markers) (IMAFAJAH)

Keywords

• Metocean surveys
• Offshore wind measurement
• Seabed consultancy
• Floating lidar services
• Marine environmental assessments

Headquarters

HQ city

Glasgow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Metocean Survey Services: Project-based professional services providing offshore measurement campaigns including deployment and maintenance of oceanographic equipment, real-time data delivery, and quality control and analysis.
2. Marine Consultancy Services: Technical consulting services including metocean analysis, seabed mobility studies, EIA authorship, numerical modelling, engineering design criteria, and expert witness support for offshore wind and marine projects.
3. Data Products (OCEAN.DAT): Sale of metocean and seabed atlas database products with spatial map layers and hindcast timeseries datasets available for purchase individually or in bundles for Celtic Sea floating offshore wind developers.
4. V-Data Platform Subscription: Cloud-based data platform with API integration providing ongoing data access and quality-controlled data management services to project teams.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Partrac is a marine data acquisition and metocean consultancy that delivers offshore measurement campaigns, numerical modelling, and technical advisory services primarily to the offshore wind industry. The company deploys proprietary and third-party oceanographic equipment, including its V-LiDAR floating LiDAR buoys, to collect wave, current, wind, and seabed data, and converts that data into engineering design criteria, EIA support, and bankable project intelligence through its V-Data cloud platform and OCEAN.DAT database.

Product overview

Partrac is a specialist metocean and seabed consultancy offering a portfolio of products and services for the offshore wind industry and broader marine sector. The core product offerings include V-LiDAR (advanced floating LiDAR buoys for wind resource measurement), V-Data (cloud-based data management platform), and OCEAN.DAT (metocean and seabed atlas for the Celtic Sea). These are complemented by comprehensive service offerings in metocean measurement, consultancy, and seabed/hydrodynamics analysis. Founded in 2003 and now part of Venterra Group, Partrac operates across offshore wind, cables and pipelines, ports/harbours/dredging, coastal industries, marine renewables, and aquaculture sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• V-LiDAR A global fleet of state-of-the-art dual floating LiDAR buoys designed and manufactured in the UK for offshore wind measurement, combining cutting-edge data architecture, advanced hardware, and precision marine engineering to deliver bankable wind data with lower uncertainty for financial due diligence and project consenting.
• V-Data Platform A cloud-based platform that gives offshore wind project teams direct, real-time access to metocean measurement data, bringing datasets, metadata, and operational reporting together with API integration, automated data pipelines, and quality-controlled data.
• OCEAN.DAT A comprehensive GIS and database product comprising over 100 parameter map layers and over 500 metocean hindcast timeseries datasets across the Celtic Sea Region, enabling high-resolution (sub-5km) understanding of extreme and operational metocean conditions for site selection and feasibility assessments, including 40-year hindcast modelling validated against in-situ measurement data.
• Metocean Survey and Measurement Services Comprehensive metocean data acquisition services including offshore measurement, wind resource measurements via floating lidar, coastal oceanography, and dredging and port construction monitoring for offshore wind and marine infrastructure projects.
• Metocean Consultancy and Analysis Expert consultancy services including metocean design criteria, metocean analysis, numerical modelling, survey scoping and management, and site feasibility studies for offshore wind and marine projects.
• Seabed and Hydrodynamics Services Specialised services including marine environmental impact assessments (EIA), seabed level variability prediction, engineering design and certification support, cable burial and foundation scour assessment, and expert witness services for marine and offshore wind projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Achieved 90-100% data return on Seagreen metocean survey deployments
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• OsbitcoreTechnology or Integration · 22 October 2025Osbit, Venterra's specialist engineering and manufacturing company, designed and built the V-LiDAR buoys at its new facility in the Port of Blyth. This partnership combines Partrac's metocean expertise with Osbit's manufacturing capability to deliver the world's most advanced floating LiDAR technology.
• Tonkin + TaylorflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 February 2025Venterra Group (including Partrac) signed MoU with Tonkin + Taylor for strategic alliance to power offshore wind development in Australia and New Zealand. Partnership combines Venterra's global expertise with Tonkin + Taylor's deep regional knowledge across five continents.
• Ocean Conservation TrustminorOthers · 1 January 2024Partrac selected Ocean Conservation Trust as Charity of the Year, contributing to OCT's initiatives in Ocean Habitats, Ocean Advocacy, and Ocean Engagement through employee volunteering and fundraising activities.
• British Standards Institute (BSI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 February 2020Partrac co-organized joint industry workshop on seabed mobility with BSI in London, attended by 45 representatives from standards bodies, developers, seabed managers, regulatory advisors, consultants, insurance sector, and academia.
• EOLOScoreTechnology or Integration · 1 October 2019EOLOS provided the FLS200 Floating Lidar solution for Oriel Windfarm measurement campaigns. Partrac deployed this technology for offshore wind resource measurement, achieving data availability exceeding Carbon Trust Stage 3 KPIs.
• MetOceanWorkscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Part of consortium with MetOceanWorks and Cooper Marine Advisors delivering detailed geomorphological assessment for Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 project for SSE Renewables.
• Cooper Marine AdvisorscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Part of consortium with Partrac and MetOceanWorks delivering geomorphological assessment for SSE Renewables' Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2. Bill Cooper from Cooper Marine Advisors co-organized BSI seabed mobility workshop with Kevin Black.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• OceanIQ: OceanIQ provides metocean and marine environmental data services to offshore energy clients, including offshore wind developers. It competes with Partrac on data products and metocean analysis services, particularly for European and APAC floating wind markets.
• MMT: MMT is a Swedish marine survey company providing geophysical, hydrographic and metocean services for offshore wind and cable projects. It competes with Partrac on multi-disciplinary survey campaigns for European offshore wind developers and has comparable scale in the specialist survey segment.
• ABPmer: ABPmer is a UK-based marine consultancy providing metocean, coastal processes and EIA services to offshore wind, ports and coastal infrastructure clients. It directly competes with Partrac in the UK metocean consultancy market and serves overlapping developer and regulatory advisory customer bases.
• AXYS Technologies: AXYS Technologies designs and manufactures oceanographic buoys, wave and metocean measurement systems used widely in offshore wind campaigns. It competes with Partrac on the measurement hardware/instrumentation layer and is frequently deployed alongside Partrac's consultancy services in joint campaigns.

Regional players

• Cefas: Cefas is the UK's Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, providing marine environmental survey and monitoring services. While primarily public-sector, it competes with Partrac on EIA and environmental monitoring services for UK offshore wind consenting work.

Broad incumbents

• Fugro: Fugro is the global leader in marine geophysical, geotechnical and metocean site characterization for offshore wind. It competes with Partrac on integrated survey packages for Tier-1 developers but operates at vastly greater scale and offers broader geoscience capabilities beyond metocean specialization.
• Sercel: Sercel (CGG subsidiary) manufactures marine seismic and subsurface imaging equipment and increasingly provides offshore site survey solutions for wind farms. It competes with Partrac on the geophysical survey side and offers integrated acquisition-to-interpretation workflows at scale that few specialist firms can match.
• LOC Group: LOC Group is a global marine and engineering consultancy serving offshore wind, oil and gas, and shipping clients with marine warranty, engineering and surveying services. It overlaps with Partrac's marine consultancy and survey scoping capabilities but operates at greater scale across broader maritime segments.

Emerging players

• Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG): GDG is an Irish engineering consultancy providing offshore wind foundation, cable and metocean design services. It competes with Partrac on the consultancy and engineering design criteria side, particularly for Irish and UK floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind projects.
• EOLOS: EOLOS is a Spanish specialist in floating LiDAR systems for offshore wind resource measurement, supplying the FLS200 platform that Partrac has previously deployed. It competes directly with V-LiDAR in the floating LiDAR procurement market for offshore wind developer measurement campaigns.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/partrac

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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