The new express service helps clients make quicker weather dependent decisions by offering 24/7 access to ABPmer’s SEASTATES weather downtime calculator.

ABPmer, a recognised provider of metocean services, has launched an on-demand weather downtime service.

Developed in conjunction with the offshore wind industry, the new express service helps clients make quicker weather dependent decisions by offering 24/7 access to ABPmer’s SEASTATES weather downtime calculator.

A user inputs vessel position, tasks and limiting metocean conditions.  Once provided, various weather window statistics are calculated and returned within minutes.

The results include: weather downtime and extended task duration at all probability levels, project risk profile, and a breakdown of downtime per task, to enable programme optimisation. All results are provided as both tables of values, and in easy to understand graphics.

Bill Cooper, ABPmer Managing Director, said:

“We are delighted to respond to industry need and offer a fast-track route to our weather downtime statistics.

An online service was a logical next step; we originally developed the weather downtime calculator as an in-house tool, we then offered it as software, now we are giving offshore developers and operators the means to generate statistical information themselves whenever they want."

The statistics are based on ABPmer’s SEASTATES hindcast database which holds validated historic weather data back to 1979 for NW Europe and the Baltic Sea.

The calculator can consider any combination of home ports, take into account multi-stage operations with multiple limiting parameters and process any number of scenarios. 

ABPmer’s SEASTATES weather window statistics are regularly used by the offshore and subsea sector for operational planning and tender pricing.  Clients include Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, National Grid, RWE Innogy and SeaJacks UK Limited.

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Learn more about calculating weather downtime by downloading our White Paper.

To arrange a free trial of our weather downtime calculator, Call +44 (0)23 8071 1879.