Vattenfall adopts James Fisher’s pioneering marine project optimisation system, Mermaid®.

Vattenfall adopts James Fisher’s pioneering marine project optimisation system, Mermaid®.

  • James Fisher Marine Services secures order from one of Europe’s leading energy companies, Vattenfall, for Mermaid®
  • Vattenfall will utilise Mermaid® for the strategic planning of its offshore wind farm operations
  • Mermaid® is a sophisticated marine project optimisation and weather risk mitigation system set to enable huge operational cost-savings

James Fisher Marine Services, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, is proud to announce that Vattenfall, one of Europe’s leading -wind park operators, has ordered a full Mermaid® system license for the strategic planning of its offshore wind farm operations. Read more >

Mermaid Release Notes v1.1.1.3

We are pleased to announce that the latest version of Mermaid is now available. In this release we’ve made a number of changes to improve the user experience, particularly when working with the map.

New Features and Functionality

MM-1869: Improvements to map side bar.

After adding support for Shapefiles in version 1.1.1.1 we decided to make a number of changes to how items on the map are added and edited. These changes should make it much easier to add and items and to edit them. Read more >

Mermaid Release Notes v1.1.1.2

The newest release of Mermaid is now live.  Over the past couple of weeks developed a new utility to assist our European users called Treylya. We’ve also performed a number of small bug fixes and usability improvements for Mermaid.

New Features and Functionality

MM-1502: Tool to convert ZIPS from UK-CSV to Euro-CSV.

Some of our European users wanted to access the contents of the raw ZIP files that the Mermaid simulator kicks out (details here). Unforunately because Mermaid works in UK/US CSV format, it’s not easy to open these CSVs in Excel when running in a European culture. Read more >

Mermaid Release Notes: v1.1.1.1

The latest release of Mermaid is now live. We are pleased to have added importing of ESRI Shapefiles to your map, and added further ways to analyse the progress of your operations. Please see below for details of the new features and fixes.

If you’re not already a Mermaid user, you can get a free two-week trial and see for yourself just how effectively Mermaid can control weather risk on your operations. We are holding online training webinars over the 27th and 28th of July, so do get in touch and we can add you to the course. Read more >

Mermaid Release Notes: v1.1.1.0

We’re thrilled to be announcing a new release of Mermaid with a whole slew of new features and improvements. You’ll find all the details below, but as there are so many improvements, we thought that we’d produce a couple of videos to show off the biggest ones – enjoy!

Remember that if you’re not already a Mermaid user, you can get a free two-week trial and see for yourself just how effectively Mermaid can control weather risk on your operations.

To view the Metocean Features video directly on YouTube then click here. Read more >

Vessel Utilisation – Part 5: The analysis of results outside Mermaid

Introduction

In the last part we looked at how we can use Mermaid outputs to perform a bespoke analysis and discussed the process of writing a script to extract additional information.  This example is reasonably simple, but the timestep by timestep nature of the results allows substantial detail to be considered.

In this post we’ll take a look at the results we generated by running this script on our cases, considering only simulations starting in June.  We’ll also consider the process we have undertaken and the impact that this type of analysis can have on the success of a project. Read more >