Mooring Integrity

Bureau Veritas’ Research and Development (R&D) teams are committed to helping our clients find more efficient ways to monitor and assess the mooring systems of their assets. Through our work, we have been able to develop sophisticated in-house software that can be used to model mooring lines and simulate their integrity over time.

As offshore wind farms grow in size and number, this investigation and monitoring work is increasingly vital. With our extensive background in assessing mooring designs for the offshore oil and gas industry, we are now helping new renewable energy installations scale up and play their role in the energy transition. 

our projects

	MONIMOOR #UserGroups #Offshore Monimoor is a Joint Industry Project (JIP) lead by MARIN. Its goal is to develop a framework to manage and monitor the mooring integrity of floating wind turbines to improve safety and efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. Read more
	MOORING INTEGRITY USER GROUP #UserGroups #Offshore The Mooring Integrity User Group is a forum of exchange between operators, Class Societies and engineers to share experience and build up industry knowledge on mooring systems.
	EOLINK #OtherCollaborativeProjects #MRE Bureau Veritas has partnered with Eolink on the component certification of their pre-commercial 5MW floating offshore wind turbines.
	LIFELINE   #UserGroups #Offshore The LifeLine Group follows on from a JIP to support the practical application of the outcome technology in the field. An onboard software can provide real-time feedback on the health of FPSO mooring lines and thus help extend their use. In phase 2 of the LifeLine Group project an Approval In Principle (AIP) will be obtained from BV. Also the need of a LifeLine system for floating wind turbines will be investigated. Read more
	DONUT  #MooringIntegrity #Offshore Donut is a multiple-phase Joint Industry Project (JIP) aiming at enabling remote assessment of mooring systems underwater. Reliable assessment of the integrity of mooring lines is of critical importance for the operation of floating energy production units, such as Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWT) and Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO). Damage in the mooring lines can create unacceptable risks to the entire asset and the subsea environment. The feasibility of detection, localization, and characterization of corrosion and fatigue damage in subsea chain links using active and passive techniques are investigated in this project, with the aim of creating/updating a digital twin of the mooring system. Read More
	BAMOS #MooringIntegrity BAMOS is a four-year project led by Ensta Bretagne and France Energies Marines. It aims to improve the modelling of short- and long-term behaviour of nylon ropes and expand the knowledge on fatigue and degradation mechanisms Read More
	OC7 #JIP #MRE#MooringIntegrity OC7 is a research project managed by NREL. It is a new iteration following the Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration, Continued, with Correlation, and unCertainty (OC6) project. It aims to improve the modelling of hydrodynamic viscous loads for floating offshore wind platforms to validate the accuracy of load predictions (especially aerodynamic loads) in a wind farm, with a specific focus on the influence of the floater flexibility. Read More

Our Software

	ARIANE #Software #Offshore ARIANE is our in-house software for mooring simulations. It is especially focused on offshore oil & gas industry requirements, and has been developed for greater efficiency using simplified assumptions such as catenary lines models. Offloading operations, including side-by-side configurations, can also be simulated. Read more
	OPERA #Software #MRE OPERA is our in-house simulation software for moorings and operations at sea, currently under development. OPERA can run complex simulations, including kinematic constrains and beam or lines dynamic behaviors.