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PRODUCTS MOORING SOLUTIONS

Welaptega SBM STEVADJUSTER inspect their critical infrastructure. In- stead of mobilizing general inspection personnel, operators can have multiple specialists connect to the IMR vessel to perform inspection tasks for limited pe- riods. This increases inspection quality while reducing POB and cost.

Vryhof

Rethinking how mooring lines are in- stalled and adjusted is a real need when hundreds may need to be deployed, such as for commercial scale foating offshore wind farms. Vryhof’s STEVADJUSTER is an innovative, cost-effective and time- al Maritime’s GMoor mooring analysis

LOC saving solution for chain adjustment, software. According to the company,

Remote extension to existing pre-tensioning of moorings and easy con-

GMoor10’s modern interface sets it apart

DP Inspection service nection or disconnection of anchor lines.

from competitors through an enhanced

In response to current market chal-

STEVADJUSTER enables modest in- user experience which simplifes the work- lenges including COVID-19, LOC has stallation vessels to pre-tension a mooring fow in fnding a feasible mooring spread. developed a Remote Dynamic Position- system, with signifcant safety benefts and

New features include a scripting engine ing Inspection programme, offering reduced risk profle as the tensioning op- for running batch cases and post-process- an alternative, cost-effective and time- eration is performed away from the foater. ing results, with output to both PDF and friendly solution, to comply with an-

Adjustment takes place subsea, re-

Excel; environment tables by heading for nual DP trials, regardless of current lim- moving the need for winches or other different return periods; multi-threaded its on travel to vessels. The technology heavy equipment on the platform be- batch execution and the ability to make allows for continuous, real time remote ing moored.

any previously saved case interactive.

monitoring, with the trials undertaken

The unit is designed for the lifetime

As GMoor10 is capable of solving in by the vessel, as is standard procedure. of the project and requires no specifc the quasi-static frequency domain, re-

The footage is assessed in-house by DP maintenance. It can be used for a wide sults can be obtained very quickly. An specialist consultants, followed by a de- range of different mooring systems and is optional time domain evaluation of low- tailed report. According to LOC, the particularly effcient when used in a 3-leg frequency motions still allows capturing programme guarantees clients the same mooring where adjusting a single leg al- of transient effects such as ‘swing-back’, level of technical expertise as LOC’s tra- lows tensioning of the complete system.

that would not be evident in frequency ditional physical DP inspections, but domain alone. The speed and fexibility with the fexibility to spread the test

Global Maritime of the software enable simultaneous en- program over a period of time to work

GMoor10 vironmental and failure cases to be run around a vessel’s commercial needs and

GMoor10 is the latest release of Glob- in minutes, instead of overnight.

other commitments.

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