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Centrica’s F3-FA self installing platform being transported ofshore. Image from Orca Ofshore.

US$600 million. Offshore wind turbine For Bentley, some of the key trends in the old, world-proven solver, but adding Offshore Engineering award. Dockwise arrays is also a very strong business the industry are about those using the modern graphical capabilities to improve was tasked with the transportation and area for Bentley. It is relatively large in systems, how they want to use systems the ease of use. installation of the SHWE (meaning gold)

Europe and growing in Southeast Asia, and where they’re using them from. Christensen also says there’s an jacket and topsides with deck support offshore China, Korea and Japan - post Phil Christensen, increased geographical distribution of frame at the Bay of Bengal by EPCI

Fukushima. vice president project teams, and the increased collabo- contractor Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Bentley Systems also bought MOSES Offshore & Marine, ration between different departments, Dockwise performed the operation and analysis software just over a year ago, a says, in terms of soft- particularly marine and structural. engineering for the jacket transporta- suite of analysis software for the installa- ware system user age, “As projects get bigger there has got to tion, jacket launch, topsides transporta- tion of offshore structures and the design there is an age gap be a lot more technical collaboration tion, and topsides foatover. The jacket of all types of foating offshore systems. It between the devel- between the teams as well as human weighed 22,000-tonne and the topsides provides hydrostatic and hydrodynamic oped markets, where collaboration.” 30,000-tonne.

analysis, used by the likes of Dockwise the average user age Bentley Systems’ MicroStation and

Phil Christensen

SHWE for foatover projects. was probably in the ProjectWise were used by team mem-

MOSES brings additional capabil- 40s, and the developing markets, like As an example of where collaboration bers in project of?ces located in The ity to Bentley’s existing range of prod- Southeast Asia, where the average age between different departments across Netherlands, United States, and China. ucts, which includes fagship product, was more in the 20s. These two groups geographies was the SHWE jacket An innovative bottle-shaped barge

SACS, an integrated suite of software for have pretty different expectations of how transportation and installation, offshore design to transport these massive struc- structural analysis and design of offshore software should work, he says. Bentley’s Myanmar, carried out by Dockwise. tures was produced using MOSES and structures, including oil, gas, and wind approach, he says, is an aim to achieve a The project won Bentley Systems’ SACS, and data access, accuracy, trace- farm platforms and topsides. “best of both worlds” approach, keeping 2014 Be Inspired – Innovation in ability, and workfow were addressed oedigital.com January 2015 | OE 55 054_OE0115_EPIC3_Bentley3.indd 55 12/22/14 7:00 PM