Maintaining a floating production, storage and offloading vessel means dealing with two sets of problems at once. It is a process facility, with pressure systems, rotating equipment and the inspection obligations those bring. It is also a ship, with a hull,
Read MoreCorrosion under insulation is the most expensive damage mechanism on many offshore facilities, and the reason is simple. It happens out of sight, under cladding that looks intact, on lines that pass every visual inspection until the day one of them
Read MoreEvery offshore operator runs an inspection programme. Far fewer get useful decisions out of it. The gap is almost never a shortage of data. It is that the data arrives in a form nobody can act on, or it arrives about
Read MoreEvery offshore operator faces the same question when a structure needs inspection, blasting, painting or a welded repair: how do we get technicians safely to the workface? For decades the default answer was scaffolding. Today, on fixed platforms, FPSOs and drilling
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