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DIGITALIZATION MIROS

What we do is give real- time wave measurement within the farm, and maybe mix it with the weather forecasts. It’s all about maximizing the weather window.

Jonas Røstad, Chief Commercial

Of? cer, MIROS

All images courtesy Miros and Seven Sun vessels, and the deal will see Subsea 7 gain ac- clients that they can work more hours than the competitor. cess to Miros Cloud services delivering real-time sea state data. With knowledge about the sea state, they can work more hours

On awarding the contract, Filipe Salvio, Operations Manag- because they take away that uncertainty.” er at Subsea 7, said “the cloud-enabled WaveSystem onboard The other thing is that Subsea 7 can link this to external our three pipelay support vessels allows us to deliver the best systems, like dynamic positioning, for example, to check if service to our customer independently of offshore weather they can increase the working limits of the vessel based upon conditions. This system provides us with accurate wave, cur- real data. “So if you have limits and with experience from the rent and speed through water data granting us to work safe, data and how the vessel moves, they can actually change the precise and highly effective at all times”. limits to a higher number based upon the real-time data. Every

According to Røstad, Subsea 7 aims to use its system as vessel that has a limitation on the sea states [in which it could a competitive advantage. “Subsea 7 wants to promise their work] would bene? t from this.” www.marinelink.com 41

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