Analysing Wind Farm Foundation Installation – Part 6: Work Faster – Two Vessels On Hire

As we’ve moved through this analysis process and applied Mermaid to the consideration of how we can baseline and improve our performance two main objectives have repeatedly arisen:

  • Work entirely in the spring and summer to reduce winter downtime.
  • Maximise the time spent performing offshore operations when favourable conditions occur by reducing the number of transits required.

Here we are going to perform two simulations which it is hope will improve our performance.

The Simulations

There are two scenarios under consideration here:

  • Two vessels operating, both vessels can carry a set of foundations at a time, one vessel is from the base case, the other is a different, slightly less capable vessel (i.e.
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