The Nederlands: Dynamic Positioning Capability Forecast: Planning of Operations, Hours and Days Ahead

One of the extensions within OCTOPUS-Onboard is the Dynamic Positioning capability forecast function, DP for short. The OCTOPUS-DP functionality gives offshore vessels the possibility to make optimum use of a safe time window for their weather-sensitive operations. An important remark has to be made here. The OCTOPUS-DP functionality can not be compared with already existing Dynamic Positioning Systems.

Where traditional DP systems try to keep the vessels position during an offshore operation, OCTOPUS-DP takes it one step further. A forecast is given if the vessel is capable of maintaining her position and heading in changing environmental and weather conditions, hours and days ahead. In 2010 OCTOPUS-DP was installed on the Hoegh LNG vessels Suez Cape Ann and the Suez Neptune. Both vessels use OCTOPUS-DP to plan and document safe time windows for discharging LNG from the vessel to shore trough a turret mooring and transfer system designed by APL – Advanced Production Loading – of Norway.

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