Construction and intervention vessels for Arctic oil and gas (2008 - 2012)

is a Knowledge-building project with user involvement financed by The Research Council of Norway and industrial partners. The project objective is to extend the operational season for construction and intervention vessels in regions with seasonal ice. To obtain this main objective some secondary objectives must be realized:

• A revised intervention philosophy where unplanned intervention takes place in periods with seasonal ice
• Operational limits based on vessel and subsystem motion characteristics
• Vessel design to optimize operational envelope and minimizing the environmental footprint from normal, abnormal end emergency operations

The project was ended March 2012.