MagazineMARIN and OCEANICA start partnership
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 2 minutes
On September 17, 2007 MARIN President Arne Hubregtse and OCEÂNICA Director Marcos Cueva signed an agreement which now makes OCEÂNICA MARIN's ...
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MagazineNew SCR capable Disconnectable Mooring System tested for SBM Atlantia
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 6 minutes
The MoorSparTM mooring system is a new, SBM Atlantia design that allows an FPSO to be moored using existing yoke technology. To investigate the ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controldata sciencerenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamodel testingmooring and offloadingmotionswaves & motionsoffshore engineering
MagazineMARIN leads EU project for the prevention of environmental disasters
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 6 minutes
MARIN is project coordinator of the European research project Double Inverted Funnel for the Intervention on Shipwrecks (DIFIS), which aims to ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiescfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencetime-domain simulationsauthorities and regulatorstransport and shippingmodel testingsafetysimulations
MagazineMARIN develops anchor-handling simulator for Swire Pacific Offshore
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 3 minutes
With oil exploration moving into deeper and harsher waters, anchor- handlers and their crews are often working
to the limits of their capabilities ...
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MagazineThe world's largest production vessel
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
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The Agbami Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel is one of the largest production vessels ever built and is currently being ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesstability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiessafe operations and human factorstime-domain simulationsnautical operationsoil and gastrainingoffloadingsimulations
MagazineNew OWME system assists motion critical operations offshore
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 6 minutes
Many offshore operations are dependent on wave-induced vessel motions. The On Board Wave and Motion Estimator (OWME) predicts floater motions some ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controldata sciencerenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamonitoringtrials and monitoringmotionsfull scaleoffshore engineering
MagazineCurrent Affairs JIP improves current insight
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 3 minutes
In the last few years the importance of current on the behaviour of offshore structures has become evident. For example, the strong loop current in ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencetime-domain simulationsrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamodel testingvortex induced motions (vim)simulationswaves & motionsoffshore engineering
MagazineNorway FPSO Forum to focus on harsh environments
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 6 minutes
As FPSO designers, developers and researchers prepare to meet in Trondheim for the 21st FPSO Research Forum and JIP Week, Report provides a preview ...
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MagazineMARIN tests two Prosafe FPSO's destined for Australia and Brazil
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 6 minutes
Prosafe was awarded two major contracts for the supply and operation of the Ningaloo Vision FPSO for Apache's Van Gogh field, offshore Australia and ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controldata sciencerenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamodel testingmooring and offloadingslammingwaves & motionsoffshore engineering
Magazinee-MARIN - a new way of working
MARIN Report 93
1 Apr 2008
Reading time 3 minutes
Report interviews Ir. Enrico Della Valentina, project manager of e-MARIN - the first completely web-based hydrodynamic service in the world. ...
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PaperTradeoffs in ship propulsion control - engine overloading and cavitation inception in operational conditions
9th International Naval Engineering Conference and Exhibition (INEC), Hamburg, Germany
1 Apr 2008
Off-design conditions can have a severe impact on ship propulsion system behaviour. Resistance increase for instance leads to a higher engine ...
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PaperCase studies of ocean transports using the SafeTrans simulator
Royal Ibstitution of Naval Archutects (RINA), London, UK
29 Mar 2008
SafeTrans is a recently developed software package that calculates motions imposed by winds, waves, and currents on large vessels, barges, ...
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PaperTowards a CFD-based prediction of ship performance - progress in predicting full-scale resistance and scale effects
RINA MARINE CFD Conference, Southampton, UK
26 Mar 2008
This paper discusses scale effects on the viscous and wave resistance of ships, as found from CFD computations; and compares these with the usual ...
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PaperComputational Analysis of Propeller Sheet Cavitation and Propeller Ship Interaction
RINA conference ’MARINE CFD2008’, Southampton, UK
26 Mar 2008
This paper describes a computational procedure which is being developed for the practical analysis of propeller sheetcavitation and propeller-ship ...
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PaperModel Tests and Computer Simulations for Njord FPU Gas Module Installation
Marine Operations Specialty Symposium (MOSS2008), Singapore
1 Mar 2008
Recently, two gas modules have been installed on the Njord FPU, on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, to enable gas exports from the Njord Field ...
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