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Dockwise Shipping loads out the SHWE platform.

Photo from Dockwise.

Great expectations

As the ofshore industry grows

US$600 million. Offshore wind turbine oftware is playing an increas- For Bentley, some of the key trends in arrays is also a very strong business ingly large role in the offshore the industry are about those using the in complexity – in terms of

S area for Bentley. It is relatively large in oil and gas industry, both as an systems, how they want to use systems

Europe and growing in Southeast Asia, engineering tool but also providing the and where they’re using them from. projects and geographies offshore China, Korea and Japan - post glue between the ever more global and Phil Christensen,

Fukushima. widely distributed workforce, not least vice president – software is playing an

Bentley Systems also bought MOSES when it comes to platform installation Offshore & Marine, analysis software just over a year ago, a projects. says, in terms of soft- increasing role in engineering, suite of analysis software for the installa- For Bentley Systems, the growth has ware system user age, tion of offshore structures and the design been notable. Clark McDonald, Bentley’s there is an age gap both to aid engineering and of all types of foating offshore systems. It vice president, global offshore engineer- between the devel- collaboration, as projects provides hydrostatic and hydrodynamic ing, says the increasing use of foating oped markets, where analysis, used by the likes of Dockwise production systems means there is a the average user age

Phil Christensen increase in complexity and for foatover projects. growing market for Bentley’s offshore was probably in the

MOSES brings additional capabil- software products. 40s, and the developing markets, like diversity. Meg Chesshyre ity to Bentley’s existing range of prod- He says that in a period of just three Southeast Asia, where the average age ucts, which includes fagship product, years there has been a 100% increase was more in the 20s. These two groups learned more at the Bentley

SACS, an integrated suite of software for in terms of the revenue associated with have pretty different expectations of how structural analysis and design of offshore the sale and delivery of offshore soft- software should work, he says. Bentley’s

Systems’ Year in Infrastructure structures, including oil, gas, and wind ware, which represents about 10% of approach, he says, is an aim to achieve a 2014 conference in London.

farm platforms and topsides. Bentley’s annual turnover of a little over “best of both worlds” approach, keeping

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