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Offshore Energy

Ensuring operational performance for the complex development and production of energy across sectors, climates, and geographies.

Our solutions support your commitements to safety, security, and operational optimization amidst evolving climates and regulations, while safeguarding people, assets, and the environment.

Optimise your offshore energy operations

  • Insights, forecasts and alerts are all delivered through simple and easy to understand dashboards
  • Our certified meteorologists are always available—via telephone, email or even on-site by assignment.
  • We provide site-specific monitoring and alerts to protect your assets and employees.
  • Receive daily threat reports that forecast severe weather conditions

Trusted by the industry

We support more than 100 offshore wind farms and support more than 2500 offshore sites worldwide, issuing more than 2.7-million-point forecasts yearly. 

2500 offshore sites worldwide

Offshore solutions

Warnings and alerts

Ensure safety with precise, early severe-weather alerts and site-specific monitoring. Get daily forecasts and tailored alerts for immediate threats like lightning, heavy rain, and tornadoes tailored to your location.

Forecasts and observations

Tailored global and local forecasts, intuitive delivery, and simplifying technical data for confident weather risk management at all levels.

Dedicated experts

Certified meteorologists offer 24/7 guidance for severe weather, ensuring safe, efficient business decisions with custom insights.

Warnings and alerts

Ensure safety with precise, early severe-weather alerts and site-specific monitoring. Get daily forecasts and tailored alerts for immediate threats like lightning, heavy rain, and tornadoes tailored to your location.

Forecasts and observations

Tailored global and local forecasts, intuitive delivery, and simplifying technical data for confident weather risk management at all levels.

Dedicated experts

Certified meteorologists offer 24/7 guidance for severe weather, ensuring safe, efficient business decisions with custom insights.

"StormGeo has an excellent feedback and rapport with its customers. StormGeo is willing to look at and revise prediction models based on actual observed data."

Gareth Turner
Shell E&P

Weather window long-range forecast

  • Assess long-range weather un-/certainty to effectively plan your operational requirements.
  • Interactive probabilistic 15-day-ahead forecasts of weather windows based on your operational criteria, with daily updates. 
Long range planner

Asset overview

  • Plan and review the weather windows for all your operations in one view to immediately gauge when you will have working weather.
  • The asset overview is configured individually for each client and project.
Asset overview

Dedicated meteorologists 24/7

  • Our meteorologists are available 24/7/365 and based out of ten global operations and support centers.
  • For on-site assignments, a forecaster with the required offshore certificates will follow your operations over an extended period of time. By working on your installation, they can provide immediate decision-support within operational windows. 
StormGeo meteorologists on-site

7-Day-Ahead forecasts

  • 7-Day-Ahead forecasts based on continuous assessments and corrections of weather and ocean model forecasts by our meterologists.
  • Forecasts are updated several times daily.
  • Available in dashboards and exportable. 
7 day forecast

Overview and hindcast

  • Use interactive dashboards with maps pinpointing at forecast sites and dynamic charts for a 10-day weather outlook, including various meteorological elements and satellite/radar visuals.
  • Retrieve detailed forecasts and historical data analyses to provide you with insights into local wind patterns and turbulence, crucial for efficient energy planning and operational management.
Weather overview page

Lightning proximity alerts

  • Advanced notification of dangerous weather conditions, including lightning strikes, heavy rain, hail, strong winds and increased threat of tornadic activity, based on polygons drawn for your exact location and alerting needs.
  • Receive real-time alerts for observed lightning strikes for safety and critical infrastructure with lightning sensitivities.
Lightning warnings and alerts

Multipoint daily briefing

  • Configurable forecast featuring regional or a roll-up of any assets into a color-coded daily summary.
  • Adjustable color codes and parameters to highlight specific business impacts. 
Multipoint daily briefing

International alerts

  • Combining government issued alerts with our proprietary alerts and threats polygons through a single, consistent, alerting system.
  • Available for more than 40 countries.
International alerts

Critical temperature advisories

  • Hourly temperature data and forecasts based on user-defined thresholds and parameters.
  • Includes winds, pressure, humidity and visibility.
Critical temperature warnings

Optimize your operations whilst protecting your people, and assets.

Hydrodynamic analysis and modeling forecast

  • Advanced hydrodynamic models forecast motions of offshore floating units to improve performance and ensure cost-effective operations.
  • Rig and drilling deck forecasts predict heave, sway, surge, pitch and roll motion tailored to each floating structure.
  • Helideck motion forecasts predict the helideck’s heave, pitch and roll movements, then give the appropriate green, red or yellow light to support planning a more optimal helicopter schedule.
  • Forecasted modeling optimizes positioning of a flotel, by forecasting the relative movement of the flotel and the gangway stroke to the attached platform. It simulates multiple headings in a predefined sector, ensuring maximum availability of the gangway connection.
  • Improved HSE performance. We are using SIMO or MIMOSA models, which receive information from ECMWF wave models and allow you to make knowledge-based decisions to save costs.
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Flotel and gangway continuous decision support

  • Our high-quality weather insight is combined with advanced rig dynamics modeling (from Deep Sea Mooring) to simulate and forecast the relative movements of the flotel, gangway and attached platform. It simulates multiple headings in a predefined sector, allowing for the easy planning of optimal positioning of the flotel, which ensures maximum availability.
  • In situations where a disconnect cannot be avoided, the system allows users to plan and schedule to disconnect according to procedures.
Wave risk for energy production

Response forecasting

We forecast weather-influenced motions and provide decision support.

Response forecasting is designed to predict the movements of the rig and drilling deck by combining accurate weather information with detailed knowledge of the predicted response of each floating unit. 
Increase the accuracy of your operational planning and logistics, reducing risk, shutdowns, and drilling costs.
Response forecasting minimizes the need for using over-conservative limits based on wave height only. It allows for planning around a more accurate prediction of when heave compensation systems will no longer cope with weather conditions.
The basis of the technology is to combine the advanced hydrodynamic models of the vessel with weather forecasts. The result is accurate forecasts of rig motions for the planning of drilling and helideck operations.

Wave risk for energy production

Spectral Wave Analysis

  • This service provides non-vessel response service for 2D ocean conditions.
  • It calculates the wave height, direction and period based on swell systems and winds.
  • The service can be accessed through an API or a portal, where the results are displayed as spectra graphs.
  • Spectra show the energy distribution of the waves in different frequencies and directions.
Wave analysis

Availability analyses

  • Availability analyses reduce the uncertainty of downtimes caused by rig motion, resulting from weather (wind and waves) interaction with the drilling rig.
  • We use hydrodynamic analysis together with high-quality hindcast weather data to calculate the probability of a defined rig motion occurring or the likelihood of breaching a certain motion limit criteria. 
  • The results are used to estimate the operational availability of a specific drilling rig in a specific location when considering rig motion limitations, e.g. heave amplitude limitations due to heave compensating system.
Heave motions