PaperSS - Safe Transfer of Liquefied Gas in the Offshore Environment
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas, USA
1 May 2010
In order to capture value from stranded gas reserves, operators are looking to offshore gas production from FPSOs and also from platforms stripping ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencetime-domain simulationsrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seatransport and shippingmodel testingmonitoringmooring and offloadingoffloadingfull scalesimulationslngoffshore engineering
PaperApplication of Fatigue Damage Sensors in the Monitas System
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, TX, USA
1 May 2010
This paper is one of a series of papers presenting research results from the Monitas Joint Industry Project (JIP). The name Monitas stands for ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamonitoringtrials and monitoringfatigueoffshore engineering
PaperThe Monitas System for the Glas Dowr FPSO
Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
1 May 2010
The paper is one of five papers about the Advisory Monitoring System (AMS) for controlling the fatigue lifetime consumption of FPSO hulls. The ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamonitoringtrials and monitoringfatigueoffshore engineering
PaperModel Tests and Simulations on a Wave Energy Converter Based on Inverse Offshore Engineering
Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
1 May 2010
This paper presents the initial simulations and model tests into the 'Green Water Concept' for wave energy conversion. Instead of reducing the ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at searenewable energywave loadsoffshore engineering
MagazineBridge simulator training for the Munin FPSO
MARIN Report 99
29 Apr 2010
Reading time 6 minutes
Bluewater recently started operating the Munin FPSO at the Huizhou 21-1 Field in the South China Sea, after the field's permanent FPSO suffered ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesstability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuraldynamic positioningrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructureauthorities and regulatorstransport and shippingoffloadingsafetywaves & motions
MagazineDCV Balder instrumented for lifetime extension
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 3 minutes
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) contracted MARIN to design, install and maintain a Fatigue
Monitoring System for the J-Lay Tower of the Deepwater ...
waves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controldata scienceoil and gastransport and shippingmonitoringfatiguestructural response
MagazineFatigue Lifetime Assurance with Monitas
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 3 minutes
MARIN is completing a specification and pilot application Joint Industry Project (JIP) of advisory hull monitoring systems for FPSOs. Report ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controldata scienceoil and gasmarine systemstransport and shippingmonitoringfatigueonboard advisoryperformance based assessmentstructural response
MagazineNew initiatives probe thruster interaction effects
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 9 minutes
MARIN has a long history in research into the performance of thrusters during Dynamic Positioning
(DP) operations. Research on ducted propellers ...
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MagazineCFD for offshore applications
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 6 minutes
In 2009, MARIN took a major step towards the commercial application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools for offshore-related problems. This ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesrenewablesoil and gaslife at seatransport and shippingoffloadingwaves & motions
MagazineTandem offloading of LNG by means of DP
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 3 minutes
Recently, SBM commissioned MARIN to perform model tests to investigate the feasibility of tandem
offloading of LNG from an LNG FPSO to an LNG ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuraloil and gastransport and shippingoffloading
MagazineBigLift Shipping and MARIN in joint aNySIMpro operations
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 3 minutes
In the past few years BigLift Shipping has been operating in shielded waters to replace thrusters on DP vessels and semi-submersibles. In a joint ...
oil and gastransport and shipping
MagazineINPEX's eternal flame in Indonesian Arafura Sea
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 3 minutes
During drilling of the first exploration well in 2000, the Japanese operator INPEX discovered a large gas accumulation in the Masela block in the ...
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MagazineFull depth TLP model testing
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 3 minutes
The 30 m deep pit in MARIN's Offshore Basin makes it possible to test TLPs, including their tendons, in ultra deep waters without truncation of the ...
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MagazineFour decades of DP innovation at Transocean
MARIN Report 99
26 Apr 2010
Reading time 9 minutes
Gurbachan Singh Virk, a Transocean Consultant and formerly Manager of Engineering, Global
Marine Drilling Company, has a wealth of experience in the ...
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PaperThe implementation of risk analysis as an integrated operational and legal instrument with respect to maritime traffic
Risk Analysis VII & Brownfields V
26 Jan 2010
This paper emanates from the European Research Project MarNIS. The possibility of monitoring traffic has improved considerably since the ...
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