Offshore staff
HELSINKI, Finland – Wärtsilä has signed an optimized maintenance agreement with Siem Offshore concerning two of the latter’s well intervention vessels.
The Siem Helix 1 and Siem Helix 2 each operate with eight Wärtsilä 32 engines on oil fields offshore Brazil.
The five-year deal includes measures to lower the vessels’ fuel consumption and emissions though application of digital technology for real-time monitoring and support; and selective catalytic reduction emissions-abatement systems installed with the engines.
Included in the agreement is Wärtsilä’s Expert Insight predictive maintenance service which employs AI and advanced diagnostics to monitor equipment and systems in real-time, detect anomalies, predict potential problems, and allow swift response.
If any issues are detected, these will be flagged to the Wärtsilä Expertise centers for follow-up action.
Also included is Wärtsilä’s Data Driven Maintenance concept and the Lloyd class-approved Wärtsilä connectivity solution with enhanced cyber security. The former allows the ships’ crews to perform condition inspections using borescope optical instruments.
Digital images are then sent to Wärtsilä’s technical teams for evaluation, and should in most cases (the company claims) lengthen the time required between engine overhauls. The connectivity solution allows use of onshore digital tools providing cloud-based services such as remote monitoring, remote optimization, and support.
By optimizing maintenance procedures, safety should increase while exhaust emissions come down, the company added.
“The benefit of being able to efficiently monitor the equipment and support customers remotely is enhanced even more today, since due to Corona-related travel restrictions, in-person visits by service engineers can be difficult to arrange,” said Henrik Wilhelms, director Agreement Sales, Wärtsilä Marine Power.
“Since our engineers need to travel less, their carbon footprint is reduced, while at the same time we can optimize the performance of the asset.”
02/11/2021
