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Installation Method

How an offshore installation or removal is carried out, step by step.

Class B
Installation
Marine operations
Schedule
Risk

What this expert provides

The Installation Method expert engineers how an offshore installation or removal operation is carried out: the method, the step-by-step sequence, the schedule, the weather window, the vessel spread, simultaneous operations, risk, contingency and the documents a marine warranty surveyor and offshore crew need.

Expert Profile

Covers fixed platforms, floating units, subsea structures and tie-ins, pipelay and trenching, power cables, wind foundations and turbines, and decommissioning. It plans and integrates without repeating the specialists' calculations: lift loads, motions, capacities and stability are taken from the experts that own them. Works from DNV-ST-N001 and DNV-RP-N101 practice.

Key Capabilities

  • Method selection with reasons for rejected options
  • Numbered sequence with hold points and go/no-go criteria
  • Schedule, critical path and contingency
  • Weather criteria and expected waiting on weather by month
  • Vessel spread, SIMOPS, risk and contingency