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Mitigating Offshore Integration

Risk as Project Complexity Grows

GLO Marine’s investment in its production facilities benefts offshore owners, providing a single source of contact, from engineering to deck, with control and visibility through the entire project chain.

ver the past fve years, GLO Marine has worked days of berth time that follow. On a modern OSV, that is with some of the most demanding names in off- the difference between proft and loss.

shore — Tidewater, DEME, Bourbon Offshore, What owners are asking for, what GLO Marine pro-

OVARD, OSM Thome, Bluewater — delivering vides, is one accountable team and the agility to absorb more than 200 end-to-end retroft projects, including scope changes without renegotiating fve contracts.

more than 50 vessel mobilisations and conversions, in the most demanding charter and class environments offshore

Closing the Chain: From Feasibility to Deck work presents. A complex offshore upgrade has four stages: feasibil-

That body of work has produced one consistent lesson: ity, engineering, fabrication, and onboard installation and offshore service work is fragmented. Engineering, struc- commissioning. GLO Marine has been delivering three of tural fabrication, electrical scope and onboard installation them in-house for years. The investment in the Technol- typically live in different companies, and the integration ogy Centre in Gala?i — operational from October 2026 risk between them sits with the owner. — will close the fourth.

For straightforward projects, this still works. For com- This is what changes for the client.

plex multi-discipline scopes — mobilisations, mission- • One company is accountable for the entire equipment integration, electrical retrofts — it increasingly pr oject fow. The same project manager who does not. scopes the feasibility study owns the engineering,

The cost of that fragmentation is rarely abstract. A foun- the pr oduction schedule, the riding-crew dation arrives at the yard eight millimetres out of tolerance mobilisation and the class sign-off. There are no against the equipment supplier’s bracket. The welder waits. contractual seams between disciplines, and no

The class surveyor, who few in for the integration sign-off, commercial conversation to have when something fies home. The owner pays for both — and for the three needs to move.

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