- High level site specific project analysis.
- Strategic weather risk quantification.
- Support to high level yield analysis.
- Support to high level funding analysis.
- Project strategy optioning and design.
- Device & Balance of Plant technology selection.
- Installation Strategy design.
- O&M Strategy design.
- Project Planning and Programming support.
- Develop project schedules.
- Evaluate task durations for chosen vessels, ports, methods and processes.
- Understand what the weather risk drivers are.
- Gain a complete understanding of the potential weather delays.
- Use the information to develop lumpsums, target prices, pain/ gain offerings.
- Present detailed graphs and tables of analysis in support of proposals.
- Have a detailed understanding of the weather risk to inform contract negotiations.
- Simulate submitted schedules against hindcast weather data to evaluate actual durations.
- Understand what the weather risk drivers are.
- Gain a complete understanding of the potential weather delays.
- Compare and contrast bid submissions. Which has the best weather risk profile?
- Use the information to develop target prices and baselines.
- Have a detailed understanding of the weather risk to inform contract negotiations.
- Develop a project baseline based on initially selected vessels, ports, methods and processes.
- Simulate the operation against hindcast weather data.
- Evaluate task durations, identify the weather risk drivers.
- Optimise the project – changeout vessels, ports, methods or processes.
- Re-simulate and compare with the baseline.
- Develop an optimised project with the lowest possible weather risk profile.
- Make procurement and project decisions based on solid analysis – reduce the risk of project cost over runs.
- Carry out installation and O&M methodology analysis to inform key design decisions.
- Simulate installations and O&M campaigns against hindcast data to evaluate durations.
- Use optimisation techniques to test different vessels, ports, methods or processes.
- Understand the impact of design decisions on the weather risk profile associated with the required marine operations.
- Make procurement and project decisions based on solid analysis – reduce the risk of project cost over runs, increase lifecycle yields.
- Develop a project baseline based on initially selected vessels and ports.
- Include weather and tidal data for ports to be considered.
- Set realistic weather limits for vessels including port arrival, site arrival, transit speeds, on station limits.
- Simulate the operation against hindcast weather data.
- Evaluate task durations, identify the weather risk drivers, understand the impact of port limits (lock in, height of tide etc).
- Optimise the project – try different ports and vessels.
- Re-simulate and compare with the baseline.
- Develop an optimised project with the lowest possible weather risk profile.
- Understand the balance between vessel capability, vessel cost, port distance form site, port limits and a low weather risk profile.
- Detailed analysis of projects to understand “weathered” durations.
- Use of multiple years of hindcast data to understand the risk profile.
- Repeatable analysis before and after claims.
- P25, P50, P75, P80 and P95 durations all based on the range of simulated durations.
- Detailed, and validated, analysis methodology gives a good estimate of the weather risk “tail”.
- Ability to offer competitive premiums.
