Verification

Marinatec has a strong reputation in consultancy relating to all aspects of marine operations. This is reflected in Marinatec's involvement as marine advisers on offshore projects

This reputation has been built upon an analysis capability and sound practical skills in the full range of offshore technology, starting from environmental description of the field, to in-place performance measurements and calibration of the installed platform.

Marinatec engineering and consultancy work is applicable for most of the following offshore structures:

• Jack-ups
• Semi-submersibles, drillers and Floating Production Systems
• Tankers
• Gravity based structures
• Jackets
• Other structures such as caissons, conceptual platform designs and wave energy devices.

Consultancy

For platform integrity verification, Marinatec can provide consultancy in the following areas:

• Review project criteria and assess overall implications for safety and integrity
• Review of the scope and detail of the environmental data
• Specify, review, attend and approve model tests
• Analytical reproduction and calibration of model tests
• Frequency and time domain analysis
• Detailed finite element models
• Code Checking
• Reliability analysis for innovative issues
• Responses via statistical methods to verify relevant design loads
• Acceptance Criteria