ORCA Offshore offers operational risk consultancy and analysis for marine operations in power generation facilities. Using extensive offshore operational experience and thorough knowledge of advanced simulation technologies to identify and quantify risks, realistic risk assessments, sound design advice and realistic design analysis are guaranteed.
The company provides engineering and consultancy services for offshore construction and transport activities. These services are aimed at controlling the risks associated with exposure of personnel and equipment to marine environments.
Understanding of the behaviour of offshore construction equipment in these environments is vital for developing safe and efficient work procedures. As well as delivering this knowledge, ORCA Offshore can use various simulation tools to translate the effects of environmental conditions to equipment behaviours.
Offshore construction risk consultancy and support
ORCA Offshore delivers support and consultancy services for the power generation sector. These services include the design of offshore marine procedures and advice on operational limits, as well as reviews of these services and health, safety and environment (HSE) systems. Construction superintendents and client representatives are also included in the support services.
Offshore operations workability analysis
ORCA Offshore performs offshore operation workability analyses at various levels. By combining offshore environment, marine spread hydrodynamic behaviour and operational procedures into a single simulation model, the workability assessment provides insight into an operation’s environmental risk.
Concept design services
The risks and costs of an offshore structure’s transportation, installation and removal will strongly affect the selection of best concept for the structure’s planned purpose. While operational requirements are important for generating required revenues, the significant costs of an offshore structure’s installation, maintenance and removal can contribute to the success or failure of a chosen concept.
Good knowledge of offshore installation technology and weather risks is therefore invaluable for concept design of offshore platforms and other structures. Depending on risks and costs, the choice between operational requirements and certain offshore construction methods needs to be carefully made.
Marine analysis for offshore structures
The knowledge and tools of ORCA Offshore can determine the effects of wind, waves and current on any floating structure. From a simple barge to complex multi-body systems, any offshore structure can be analysed for both static and dynamic responses.
We offer marine analysis of motion, launch, upending, mooring, dynamic lift and lowering, and transport, including stability, bollard pull and longitudinal strength.
ORCA Offshore uses Ultra Marine’s MOSES, a structural and marine simulation language that evaluates motions, loads and stresses in multi-body marine structures.
Structural steel design expertise
ORCA Offshore offers experience in structural steel design for a variety of structures related to shipping, dredging and offshore industries. These include ship structural design, offshore platforms, castings or fabricated lift points, and design of grillage and seafasting.
Online marine engineering capabilities
Our online marine engineering service provides online simulations and analysis of marine operations. To find out more about this service, please visit the Transport Analysis website that can be found in our contact details.
Decision support for offshore operations
ORCA Offshore can provide operational decision support (ODS) using an approach that integrates a range of data sources. These include data on weather forecasts, waverider buoys and motion monitoring, as well as load measurements and operational limits based on dynamic models.
This service combines different data sources into one model that provides the actual and predicted utilisation of the offshore operation’s defined operational limits for the offshore installation manager.
The service includes support from a senior naval architect but can also be set up as a standalone system for operation by the offshore crew depending on the operational requirements.