Our Business Segments
GL Group consists of three major business fields: ship classification, oil and gas, and renewables.
Maritime Services
Germanischer Lloyd is dedicated to ensuring the safety of life and property at sea, and the prevention of pollution of the marine environment.
To the shipping and shipbuilding world, the name Germanischer Lloyd has been synonymous with reliability, diligence and engineering excellence since the company was established as a ship classification society by German ship-owners in 1867. Today, more than 7200 vessels, equivalent to 100 million GT, are GL-classed. Every year GL performs about 24 000 inspections. Numerous international technical standards are based on GL know-how.
The ship classification Germanischer Lloyd belongs to the top five classification societies. As an independent third party, Germanischer Lloyd develops state of the art rules, procedures and guidance for ship owners, ship yards and the maritime supply industry in order to offer commercially sound answers in times of economic challenges and tight regulatory regimes.
Oil & Gas
GL Noble Denton is a world class technical service provider for the oil and gas industry.
As demand for energy takes exploration and production operations to ever more challenging extremes of geography and climate, the commercial and personal risks are amplified and the rewards ever harder to realise. GL Noble Denton offers expert advice and practical assistance from an independent position to help ensure that regardless of scale or complexity, projects and ongoing operations are both safe and profitable.
GL provides assurance, inspection, consulting, project management and execution. It focuses on technical services and solutions along the entire life cycle of oil and gas (upstream, midstream, and downstream) and energy installations onshore and offshore. The scope of technical services includes safety, integrity, reliability and performance management.
Renewables
GL Garrad Hassan is recognised worldwide as a provider of services at all stages of onshore and offshore wind projects.
It has developed industry standard software products for onshore and offshore wind turbine and wind farm design. Always at the forefront of research and development activities, GL Garrad Hassan has also had a dedicated marine energy team since 2003, which has worked on more than 65 wave and tidal projects across 15 countries, including prototype trials. It has delivered the world’s first tidal turbine design software.GL Garrad Hassan’s achievements in the field of mechanical renewables are being replicated in solar, its most rapidly growing sector, where it supports both
photovoltaic and concentrated solar power projects.
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GL Renewables Certification
GL Renewables Certification, part of the GL Group, is a leading certification body primarily focussed on the certification of wind farms, wind turbines and their components.
At the forefront of understanding in renewables technology, it is abreast of all the necessary standards and requirements and takes a harmonised approach in ensuring that these are met. Manufacturers, banks and insurers around the world rely on the state-of-the-art service provided by GL Renewables Certification.
