Introduction

Last time we outlined the analysis of cable installation operations for a hypothetical operation at WaveHub.  We looked at the map and the shelter characteristics of the vessels we intend to use and outlined the main objective of the analysis, which is:

“When should we take the trenching vessel on hire, relative to the installation vessel?”

In addition we sketched out our operations, at quite a high level, ahead of putting them in to Mermaid, this sketch is shown below:

In this post we are going to look at how we can model these operations in Mermaid and consider, in a little more detail, how we vary the length of the lay and trench operations. Read more >