Offshore wind & vessels
Industry · Offshore Operations

Turn marine uncertainty into operational advantage.

Site-specific marine forecasts and intelligence for offshore fleets, wind farms, oil & gas operations, dredging campaigns and subsea installation — calibrated to your assets, your thresholds, your contracts.

The challenge

Sea state is the binding constraint on productivity.

Every day on an offshore asset costs hundreds of thousands of dollars — and a misjudged weather window costs more. Idle vessels, paused drilling, missed crew transfers, late installations, schedule penalties: when the marine environment closes a window, the costs cascade through the entire operation.

Standard public-domain metocean forecasts give a broad regional picture, but offshore operators need site-specific intelligence calibrated to their assets and operational thresholds. Wave height matters less than wave height relative to your specific operational limit. Current direction matters less than current direction relative to your moored asset's allowable orientation.

Beyond the day-to-day weather, less visible events can also disrupt operations: solitons, sediment plumes, and sudden current shifts — rarer than a misjudged weather window, but just as costly when they arrive.

Who we serve

Built for the operations that depend on the marine environment.

Offshore wind

Resource assessment, construction window selection, crew transfer planning, O&M optimisation.

CTV · jack-up · helideck · lidar buoy
Oil & gas

FPSO operations, drilling weather windows, soliton detection, subsea integrity protection.

FPSO · drilling · subsea · soliton
Marine fleets

Vessel routing, weather-window selection, anchor handling, heavy-lift scheduling.

AHTS · construction · supply · heavy-lift
Dredging & subsea

Sediment-event forecasts, cable-lay window selection, pipeline installation, dredge productivity.

DREDGE · CABLE-LAY · PIPELINE
Our service

Three integrated solutions for offshore operations.

We combine in-situ buoys (including our Wind Lidar Buoy for offshore wind), satellite earth observation, and custom oceanographic models — calibrated to your specific asset, location, and operational thresholds.

Solution 01
Real-Time Monitoring

Continuous metocean and water-quality data from our buoys (including offshore-wind Wind Lidar variants) or from sensors already on your vessels and platforms.

  • · Wave height, period, direction
  • · Wind speed, direction, gust
  • · Current speed (surface + depth)
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Solution 02
Early Warnings

3-to-7-day forecasts of the metocean parameters governing your operations, with thresholds you define and alerts that reach the right people.

  • · Site-specific weather windows
  • · Soliton & sediment-event prediction
  • · Categorised: safe / caution / warning
Solution 03
Site Selection & Hindcasts

Historical metocean heatmaps for new asset siting, wind farm layout decisions, anchor analysis, and post-event diagnostic studies.

  • · Up to 40 years of hindcast
  • · Compare candidate sites objectively
  • · Storm-window probability analysis
Parameters we forecast for offshore

Predict the conditions that move your fleet.

Wave Height & Period

Significant wave height, peak period, swell direction. Calibrated against your operational thresholds.

Wind

Speed, direction, gust profiles. Powered by Fugro Weather, the in-house 24/7 marine forecasting desk.

Currents

Surface + depth profiles. Critical for anchor handling, ROV operations, and subsea installation.

Solitons & Sediment

Sub-surface waves (Andaman Sea, others) + sediment-plume forecasts. The events public weather services miss.

…plus storm surge, marine heatwaves, sea-state probability, water-quality parameters, and bathymetric & seafloor inputs. Ask about your specific operation.
Benefits for fleets & offshore operations

What changes when every weather call is forecast-driven.

Benefit 01
Higher fleet utilisation.

Site-specific forecasts identify more usable windows than regional forecasts allow. Vessels work more days. Idle time on standby falls. Day-rate productivity improves measurably across a season.

Benefit 02
Less waiting on weather.

WOW (waiting on weather) is one of the largest hidden costs in offshore ops. Knowing 3–7 days out which windows hold up means crews, equipment and consumables are positioned right — instead of paying for them to sit.

Benefit 03
Improved safety.

Fewer marginal-condition operations means fewer near-misses, fewer injuries, fewer regulatory escalations. Crew transfer windows, helideck operations, and over-the-side work all benefit from accurate, asset-specific forecasts.

Benefit 04
Tighter schedule reliability.

Contracts increasingly carry liquidated damages for missed milestones. Predictive scheduling around accurate forecasts protects the critical path — and your commercial position.

Benefit 05
Asset protection.

Predictive intelligence for solitons, sediment events and extreme metocean conditions lets you de-risk mooring loads, riser stress, subsea infrastructure exposure, and equipment positioning before the event arrives.

Benefit 06
Heavy-lift & crew-transfer windows.

Crane operations, jack-up positioning, CTV transfers and helideck approaches all have strict sea-state thresholds. Forecasting which windows clear the threshold turns guesswork into planning.

Benefit 07
Multi-asset coordination.

Fleet operators running multiple assets across a region get a unified forecast view — coordinate vessel routing, anchor handling and supply runs around the same forecast horizon.

Benefit 08
Insurance & regulatory.

Continuous, documented marine intelligence supports environmental compliance reporting, insurance underwriting positions, and claim defence when incidents do occur.

Featured case study
ENI · Andaman Sea

Enhancing offshore asset safety with soliton early warnings.

ENI Krueng Mane's operations in the Andaman Sea face one of the world's most active regions for internal solitons — large sub-surface waves that produce sudden currents capable of overloading mooring lines, risers and subsea infrastructure.

SEAWATCH® combines satellite remote-sensing detection with custom propagation modelling to deliver days-of-advance notice before each event reaches the asset — turning a reactive scramble into predictive operations.

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Ready to plan around the marine environment instead of fighting it?

30-minute discovery call. We map your operational thresholds to the marine parameters that drive them, and recommend whether SEAWATCH® is a fit.

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