The horizontal added mass of a suction bucket jacket (SBJ)

The new rapidly growing wind energy market has been moving to offshore waters the last few years. New techniques and growing experiences make it possible to move to challenging offshore domains and towards harsher conditions and deeper waters. From the oil & gas industry a lot of expertise is already available on support structures. The...

Offshore Load and Discharge of a turret moored FPSO

Boskalis subsidiary Dockwise is the global market leader in heavy marine transport. Their fleet of over 20 semi-Submersible Heavy Transport Vessels (SHTV) is capable to carry the heaviest and largest structures. Until today the load or discharge operation of a floating body has only been performed in sheltered waters. Here, the influences of the...