OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE SECTION SPONSOR O&M
Millions of pounds can be saved through intelligent operations and maintenance contracts designed to reduce downtime to a minimum.
MAJOR SAVINGS
O&M is now an expanding frontier for wind innovation and efficiency – where potential offshore downtime costs can be cut by up to 30%, and often more.
The starting point is a series of probing questions. These are designed to show how many traditional time-inefficient work scopes can be delivered better together. The result is 12 modern cost-efficient O&M packages.
However, because offshore conditions change rapidly, rescheduling individual tasks swiftly around moving weather windows, equipment failures, accidents and supply delays is vital if expensive vessel, men and machinery stand-by time is to be minimised.
Green Marine Solutions (GMS) is a pioneer in this critical area where it is helping to make major in-roads into multimillion- pound downtime losses. The net benefit for managers is unprecedented levels of financial and technical control over valuable assets that can be measured on the bottom-line. Health, safety, environmental and quality performance are rising in parallel.
With crew transfer vessels costing many thousands of pounds a day, and construction vessels tens of thousands, this is critical stuff.
COMES OF AGE
How these packages are delivered is important. To maximise savings, skilled O&M implementation teams are trained to eliminate costly duplications and disruption before they happen.
FREEDOM TO RESPOND High wind industry costs mean that modern O&M is increasingly being delivered through versatile modules built around weekly, monthly and annual calendars. Flexibility means that tasks can be executed to high quality levels for a guaranteed fixed lump- sum price. All risks lie with the confident supplier.
As a confident supplier, GMS puts a powerful combination of extra O&M skills into its work packages. These include extensive marine coordination and vessel management expertise gained on large UK and European offshore wind farm projects. It also adds competencies in auditing, inspection, specialist repair and maintenance work, compliance and essential documentation.
The company’s introduction of four-man O&M teams who can switch over instantly to have emergency and rescue operations up and running very quickly in a tough environment if things do go wrong is further added value that helps to cut critical risks and losses.
VESSEL DOWNTIME LOSSES The scope for O&M savings is illustrated clearly by recent vessel utilisation data. By one reliable estimate, work and transfer boats are typically effective for a little over 55% of their charter time averaged out annually. Because vessels are usually chartered for a year, this means that only some 190 days annually may be really productive.
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