Is the total logistics system supporting your offshore activities well-tuned on risk, cost and environmental performance?

Purpose

All operations associated with offshore activities are normally either time critical or very costly – or both. In addition, all operations need to continuously improve in terms of reducing their environmental footprint. One logical extension of these facts is that exploration, construction and production offshore requires efficient, resilient supply and support functions that minimises the risk of service interruption while also optimising the environmental efficiency.

We assist you in analysing, optimising or designing your total supply operations and logistics infrastructure in terms of energy efficiency, environmental impact, risk and robustness.

Benefits

When performing a total review of the transport and logistics network for a given operation, bottlenecks and redundancies will be revealed. An analysis of the energy efficiency of the transport system will identify potentials for improving the performance of the supply services.

A typical analysis will consider the use of supply bases, the number and performance characteristics of vessels to be employed, routing and scheduling (frequency) issues, to name a few. This will be translated and modelled into our analysis or optimisation software (depending on the type of problem), which will provide the basis for the actual recommendations.

Rating and benchmarking of alternative scenarios or solutions, actual cost of resources and cost/benefit of changing critical resources in the network, such as bases, vessels, schedules and restrictions.

Our approach

The ability of DNV to draw on world-class expertise within logistics and optimisation, ship and offshore vessel operations, energy efficient vessel design, Rules and Regulations, risk and vulnerability analyses and more will make this a truly unique service.

A transport network analysis may easily evolve into a problem of unsolvable complexity unless the scope is properly defined. In practice, this is done by selecting the correct breakdown level of the transport system in cooperation with the client; some problems will have to consider the whole transport chain or a fleet, but for others it will suffice to look at a vessel. This might also be regarded as a modular approach, where different analyses, success criteria, metrics and KPIs for assessing the solution are applied as defined by the problem characteristics.

The calculation and analysis model allows all potential improvements to be tested against the KPIs, and the selected scenarios documented and quantified in terms of performance.