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6 Successful testing campaign for the Barge Master Martijn Koppert, creator and director of Barge Master, explains how the success of


a test campaign at MARIN paved the way for the start of this pioneering product, which is already being warmly welcomed by the industry as a solution for safe, motion compensated offshore lifting.


9 Investigating the challenges of the deep New deepsea mining concepts under test in the Deep Water Offshore Basin.


10 Tests for one of the largest floating platforms in the world MARIN carries out a model test campaign for Samsung Heavy Industries for a semi-


submersible, which is destined for the Ichthys Field, offshore Australia.


11 Efforts to improve the modelling of thrusters continue New thrusters built with a 7-degree tilted thruster axis.


12 MARIN goes with the wind Model tests for floating wind turbine concepts


13 Wind Load modelling JIP underway MARIN is conducting fundamental research into wind modelling, aiming to develop


a generic, practical outcome for the industry.


14 Complex model tests on MOHO NORD Tension Leg Platform


In an ambitious campaign the MOHO NORD TLP was extensively tested in the Offshore Basin.


16 Minimising fatigue damage during FPSO transport Using dedicated tools, MARIN can advise about how to minimise fatigue damage


already in the design phase of an FPSO.


17 MARIN introduces two full tug simulators MARIN has upgraded two part task simulators into full tug simulators. And they are


already proving a big success with clients.


18 Joint R&D in JIPs An update on the latest Joint Industry Projects


21 SHARES shows unique results The SHARES project on the understanding of thruster dynamics is showing unique


results, both at full and model scale.


22 New Monitas Group successor of Monitas JIP Following the success of the Monitas JIP, which will complete this year, a new


group is being created to provide Monitoring Advisory Systems for offshore floating structures in the future.


23 Obelics JIP successfully achieves goals as project concludes The “Operability of Ballasting and Lifting Operations of Extreme Loads with Integrated


hydrodynamiCS” JIP is concluded after two years of intense cooperation. report 3


Bas Buchner President


Offshore wind also continues to be an important focus and MARIN is involved in several projects from scale model tests on floating wind turbines to wind load modelling. Our special wind set-up for these tests is very successful and we are delighted to be involved in these ‘projects of the future’.


We hope to see you soon at OTC and Nor-Shipping, or of course, somewhere else in this challenging industry!


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Dear Reader,


An Offshore Special in MARIN’s Report has a bit of a family photo album feel about it, allowing you to look back over the year with its highlights and meetings with family and friends. This year’s special shows the large variety of projects and clients that MARIN has been working with. On the one side, we were involved in the largest semi-submersible in the world for the Ichthys project, and on the other, we were helping the new start-up company, Barge Master, with its innovative motion compensation system. It is this large variation in projects and the related challenges that stimulates MARIN’s people.


The Ichthys semi-submersible model for Samsung Heavy Industries was in fact, one of the most detailed that has ever been engineered and manu- factured by MARIN. Testing the motion compensa- tion of Barge Master was challenging in another way. MARIN developed a model scale version that mimicked the exact behaviour of the Barge Master’s hydraulics and its controls. This model facilitated the careful validation and tuning of the Barge Master system. In this issue we interview Martijn Koppert, creator of the Barge Master.


Report provides a good insight into recent develop- ments in our industry. New deepsea mining concepts were recently under test in the Deep Water Offshore Basin. MARIN organised a demonstration model test to show the feasibility of two typical systems and to investigate their hydrodynamic challenges.


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