Engineering solutions provider leading the way for a bluer future
Established in 2015, our Engineering Business Unit is at the forefront of providing specialized services for the Marine Energy Sector, with a strong emphasis on Submarine Cables. Leveraging collaborative expertise inherited from our subsidiary, Kraken, we are committed to driving innovation and excellence in engineering solutions.
Site Characterization
Geoscience & Geohazard
- Geophysical interpretation and geological mapping
- Geotechnical soil characterisation
- Geotechnical earthquake engineering
- Slope stability analysis
- Seabed morphodynamics study
- Survey technical specifications & Operations assistance
Metocean & Coastal engineering
- Desktop/Feasibility metocean studies
- Definition of metocean conditions for specific sites and/or sea transports (database or hindcast/modelling data)
- Nearshore metocean criteria
- Advanced statistical analyses
- Weather downtime assessment
- Wave/Hydrodynamics modelling
- Wave diffraction/agitation studies inside port/harbour
- Operations downtime
- Tropical cyclones modelling
Foundations & Offshore structures engineering
- Shallow and deep foundations design
- Pile drivability
- Geotechnical anchor design
- Pipeline and cable route optimization
- Soil-pipe interaction
Cables & Flexibles design
- Concept / Feasibility / Pre-FEED
- Risk analysis
- CAPEX & OPEX estimate
- Owner engineering
- Support to tender
- 3rd party technical review
- Root cause analysis
- R&D and technology screening
- Route definition and optimisation
- Cable burial risk assessment (CBRA)
- Burial assessment study (BAS)
- Cable/flexible soil interaction
- Cable protection design (Rock berm, concrete mattresses, rock bags, etc.)
- Cable crossing design
- On-bottom stability,
- On-bottom roughness, free-span assessment
- Cross section design
- Ampacity calculation
- Electrical layout/ architecture optimization
- OSS Preliminary design suitability review
- LCOE optimization
- OSS preliminary layout
- All type of cross sections
- Non-linear behaviour of material
- Stress behaviour of each component
- Load sharing
- Capacity curve
- Crush loads
- Lazy waves, tethered wave, lazy S…
- Configuration design (lazy waves, tethered wave, lazy S …)
- Accessories specifications (buoyancy modules, bend stiffener, …)
- Optimization
- All type of floaters (Floating wind turbine, O&G floaters, …)
- Unbounded / bounded hoses
- CPS design verification
- General arrangement verification
- Stabilization design and optimization (rock berm, mattresses, rock bags, …)
- Flow amplification
Transportation and installation (T&I)
Sea transport
- Route definition
- Weather criteria definition
- Motion analysis
- Grillage & Seafastening design
- Preparation of towage procedures
- Bollard pull & Resistance calculations
Installation analysis
- Cable and flexible installation analyses (free-lay, pull-in, shore pull, etc.)
- Lifting & Deployment analysis
- Load-in / Load-out
- Weather downtime assessment
- Offshore structures (jackets and topsides): floatover, lifting, launching
Installation methods
- Installation methods design
- Detailed procedures, tasks plan
- Storyboards and drawings preparation
Ships and floating structures
Ships and floaters hydrodynamic
- Loading cases: weight distribution and inertia
- Hydrodynamic database generation (RAO, QTF, etc.)
- Motion analyses: operating, extreme or fatigue
- Model tests specification, follow-up and post-treatment
Vessel design & Conversion
- Concept and feasibility design (new built & conversion)
- Vessel selection and deck layout
- Vessel mobilization design
- Global & Local structural analysis
- Stability analysis (trim&stab, inclining experiment, etc.)
Mooring system (Catenary & Quay)
- Mooring systems design and verification (quasi-dynamic or fully coupled time domain)
- Mooring hook-up
- Mooring installation method
- Heading analysis for turret system
Pipelines engineering
Pipelines installation analyses (shallow and deepwater)
- Rigid and flexible pipeline systems,
- S-Lay, J-Lay, Reel lay installation analysis,
- shore pull analysis, AWTI analysis, lifting and lowering analysis, J-tube pull in analysis, fatigue analysis, curve stability assessment
- Advanced installation analysis (in-line structure deployment and installation, stalk-on riser installation, DAF analysis, lazy wave riser installation, weld repair analysis, weather stand-by assessment, spooling analysis)
Pipelines in-place design (shallow and deepwater)
- Field layout development
- Flexible and rigid single and pipe-in-pipe systems design
- Rigid spools design
- Pipe and spool bend FE capacity
- Pipelines global buckling and walking analyses
Offshore methods engineering (shallow and deepwater)
- Installation and contingency procedures
Conventional offshore:
- Rigid pipeline installation methods (export lines and infield flowlines)
- Offshore structures (jackets and topsides)
- Subsea installations (subsea structures installation, flexible flowlines installation, umbilical and flying leads installation, spools and jumpers installation)
- Project engineering management