New Monitas Group successor of Monitas JIP


Following the success of the Monitas Joint Industry Project, which will complete this year, the Monitas Group is being created to continue providing services related to Monitoring Advisory Systems for offshore floating structures. Pieter Aalberts, p.aalberts@marin.nl


Within the JIP, the system was installed and successfully validated for both the Glas Dowr FPSO (Bluewater Energy Services) and the USAN FPSO (TOTAL).


Within the Monitas JIP, an Advisory Hull Mo nitoring System (AHMS) has been devel- oped and successfully implemented for testing two FPSOs. And during the project, contract awards were received for the delivery of two more systems, showing that the system is already being recognised by the industry.


The AHMS is an advanced hull monitoring system, which helps with the approval process of possible field lifetime extension and for the assessment of fatigue loading


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for relocation purposes. It explains reasons for potential deviation of the actual lifetime consumption from design predictions and translates the monitoring data into opera- tional guidance and advice in an easily understandable format. The AHMS software has been developed in cooperation with Amarcon and WaveForce Technology and can easily be tailor-made for any FPSO.


Starting in 2006, the Monitas JIP is supported by 16 participants, including the major oil companies and Classification Societies.


In order to continue to provide Monitas related services to the industry, the Monitas Group will be initiated this year. The group is aiming to further develop the added value of advisory monitoring systems for integrity management by the correlation of measure- ments and by exchanging experiences, in addition to providing software updates, support and training. Activities may include analyses of the tool accuracy factors obtained from different floaters and further development of the AHMS software with, for example, the backward prediction module for existing floaters. New participants are welcome to join.


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