LOG904-116 Offshore Upstream Logistics (Autumn 2023)

The seminar gives an outline of energy production offshore including wind, oil, and gas, the technologies used, the offshore oil and gas fields and offshore wind farms development projects worldwide. The offshore oil and gas and offshore wind supply chains will be studied, focusing on typical offshore upstream logistics activities and logistics resources, illustrated on examples of large energy companies operating offshore. The course will concentrate on logistics challenges during design, installation and maintenance of offshore wind farms, and on logistics challenges during supply of materials and personnel to offshore oil and gas installations. The offshore wind energy production and logistics systems, logistics resources, logistics operations, and logistics planning and management software for flow of material and personnel during offshore wind farm siting, design, installation, operation, and maintenance will be studied. The cargo supply and the offshore personnel transportation from supply bases to oil and gas offshore installations with known decision support tools for planning of logistics resources and logistics operations on strategical, tactic and operational levels, together with the design of the offshore emergency response systems will be also studied.

Supply chain planning and operation, logistics activities in supply, resource planning and management, decision making, optimization, routing, scheduling.

Knowledge:

After completing the course, the students will know about historical development and trends in offshore wind production, current advantages and disadvantages, offshore wind farms examples, offshore wind turbines components, structures and characteristics, logistical challenges when designing, scheduling installation and performing maintenance of offshore wind farms, as well as logistical resources used. The students will have knowledge of typical planning problems arising during offshore wind farm design phase including site selection, wind turbine location, and cabling layout. The students will know about logistics resource planning and process scheduling during offshore wind farm installation phase, and logistics planning problems for offshore wind farm operations and maintenance required on strategical and tactical levels.

After completing the course, the students will also know about offshore oil and gas supply chain, historical development of offshore oil and gas logistics infrastructure at the Norwegian Continental Shelf, upstream part of offshore oil and gas supply chain, and various offshore upstream logistics activities. The students will have knowledge of typical logistics planning problems in offshore oil and gas supply chain, such as cargo and personnel transportation planning from supply bases to offshore installations by vessels and helicopters, planning of emergency response system and rescue resources positioning, on the examples of offshore operating energy companies, and which decision support tools they use.

Skills:

After completing the course, the students will be able to apply the knowledge achieved to

• define the phases of offshore wind projects, the offshore wind farms logistical infrastructure and resources, the types of logistics activities and operations

• identify different planning level problems in offshore wind farm logistics

• describe logistics challenges in wind farm siting, wind turbines location, cabling layout, installation scheduling planning, fleet planning for wind farm maintenance, scheduling of maintenance tasks for offshore wind farms and routing and scheduling of maintenance fleet

• describe the parts of the offshore upstream oil and gas supply chain, the supply chain logistical infrastructure and resources, the types of offshore upstream logistics activities

• identify the types of supply vessel planning, helicopter personnel transportation planning and emergency response system planning problems on strategical, tactical and operational levels

• derive logistics challenges in supply vessel planning and helicopter personnel transportation planning to offshore oil and gas installations on different levels, discuss planning practices and tools

General competence:

After completing the course, the students will be able to

• explain current advantages and disadvantages of offshore wind and oil and gas production

• describe typical upstream logistics activities in offshore wind and offshore oil and gas production

• identify levels and types of planning problems arising in upstream offshore energy logistics networks in research and work contexts

Lecturing full days from Monday to Wednesday (including guest lectures from industry), working on examination assignments from Monday to Thursday (full day), examination on Friday.

• Form of assessment: Home exam without presentation
• Proportion: 100 %
• Duration: TBD
• Grouping: Individually or group
• Grading scale: Letter (A - F)
• Support material: All printed and written supporting material.