Solutions for Offshore and Marine Systems


The combination of harsh envrionments, large economical opportunites and risks as well as significant potential ecological impacts make the use of state-of-the-art risk assessment tools a must in the offshore and maritime industry. Matrisk co-founder Prof. Dr. Michael Faber has been actively involved in the development and application of risk assessment for offshore systems since the late 1980s, and many of those developments have become a standard by now.\

Matrisk is working on the optimization of inspection and maintenance strategies for fixed offshore structures, floating production systems as well as process and pipe equipment. Our iPlan software is used by various offshore operatiors to plan their inspections and we have been assisting other engineering cousultancies in developing software for optimizing inspection and maintenance activities. By targeting the inspection and maintenance towards the critical system components, available resources are utilized much more efficiently.

Matrisk experts have been performing risk assessments for novel technologies, e.g. for floating offshore systems in the Gulf of Mexico. Furthermore, they have developed probabilistic multi-scale models of marine systems that enable the consistent evaluation of the effect of damages at different levels of the system (structural element - structural component - functional unit - overall system). These models, for the first time, enable quantitive model that provide risk estaimates at the level of an installation based on detailed engineering models at the element level.

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