New Zealand-based MetOcean Solutions is introducing a new weather prediction tool to improve the safe operation of moored offshore facilities in Australia.

The tool, dubbed Offshore Motion Forecasts, will help the Australian oil and gas industry better prepare for the consequences of marine weather and avoid operational delays, as well as heavy damage from unanticipated conditions.

The tool will calculate predictions for a specific location and vessel in marine and adverse weather situations.

MetOcean said the tool will solve the problem with a set of analytical equations that will work for any floating facility, such as a floating production storage and offloading vessels (FPSO).

"The tool will calculate predictions for a specific location and vessel in marine and adverse weather situations."

Specifications including length, beam and draft will be used to initially predict the orientation of the vessel.

MetOcean Solutions managing director Peter McComb said: "Many of the facilities onboard these vessels are not designed to operate in rolling conditions, which can occur when the waves, winds and currents are not similarly aligned.

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"These moored vessels will weathervane in response to the environmental conditions and sometimes the vessel can find itself beam on to distantly generated swells.

"These waves typically have a period range that will excite the rolling motion of the vessel and that’s where the problems start."

The company plans to offer the new tool in the last quarter of 2014 for oil and gas operators and support industries in western Australia.

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