Now offering ROV Audits

BRAGER solutions is pleased to announce that we have expanded our services and are now providing special Audits for remotely operated vehicles (ROVs).

As official IMCA Accredited Vessel Inspector, we are qualified to carry out special ROV Audits which we offer our clients in addition to IMCA CMID and MISW Audits. A survey report is a verification tool for clients prior to charter an ROV that states its condition and operational readiness.

The Audits focus on all aspects of equipment, personnel and operations related to remotely operated systems that are used to support marine activities.

Technology transfer from Offshore Oil & Gas to Offshore Wind Industry

Jendrik Odenwald (General Manager, Surveyor) commenting in Renewable Energy World magazine:

"We have been observing the German offshore wind industry since 2009 when the projects got bigger and were springing up like mushrooms due to high financial incentives they received. The dynamic lead to the fact — as we noticed — that the whole industry basically started from scratch. Offshore wind farm operating companies were set up by German Energy supplying companies from nothing. The development and construction of wind turbines and the building of wind farms was so highly specialized and specifically engineered that there was no use for existing vessels or equipment from the oil and gas industry.

The German government’s regulations, decisions and money flow pushed the offshore wind industry into a vacuum that created an urgent need for knowledge, people and vessels and the capacities are there to supply the market sufficiently.

With the current oil and gas crisis it will be interesting to see whether and how oil and gas vessel operators will move into the wind market to compensate for their decreased revenues and how the offshore wind industry will react. This could potentially bring about the first stress test for the most highly financed wind vessel operators."


http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/05/the-big-question-day-1-the-big-question-what-opportunities-exist-for-technology-transfer-from-offshore-oil-and-gas-to-the-offshore-wind-industry.html