Continuing the series of posts on the analysis of offshore wind turbine installation methods, this post looks at the improvements, if any, which can be gained by increasing the carrying capacity of the installation vessel.  It is thought that time spent transiting between the vessels home port and the wind farm could be better spent[…]

We’re looking at ways in which we can install the foundations for a North Sea offshore wind farm and using Mermaid to make decisions on the vessels and the strategy which best suit our needs.  In the previous post in this series we discussed the base case for this analysis process, this being our first[…]

This is the first in a series of posts looking at how we can use Mermaid to: Analyse a large offshore operation; Make decisions about which vessels and strategies we want to use; Optimise our offshore operation. We’re going to perform a series of simulations to help determine what vessel and strategy we should use[…]