For Heavy-Lift, Pipelay, PLSV & FOWT Contractors

Installation Screening, Overnight. P.E.-Stamped, Code-Ready.

Send us your vessel data and a design matrix at 6 PM. By morning you have a parametric go/no-go report — DNV/API/ISO compliant, audit-trail traceable, and ready to defend to your client and the marine warranty surveyor.

Why we wrote this: contractor engineering teams are losing tenders to screening bottlenecks. Three weeks of manual Excel for vessel selection means the bid window closes on partial coverage. We codified 23 years of subsea/installation engineering into parametric tools that run hundreds of cases overnight — so your team can defend vessel choice with data, not tribal knowledge.

What we do for vessel contractors

Installation-engineering screening

Vessel-structure-seastate matrices run overnight. Heavy-lift to splash-zone slamming, jumper VIV to mudmat lowering. Go/no-go heatmaps with the governing load case identified per cell — DNV-RP-H103, DNV-ST-N001, API RP 2A.

Operability-envelope analysis

Weather windows, RAO-driven operability, and seastate-limited execution logic for tow-out, hook-up, S-lay, and PLSV operations. Identifies where your real operating envelope is wider — or narrower — than the standard rule of thumb.

Contractor-specific tooling

Your vessels, your structures, your metocean — not generic examples. We benchmark against your in-house tools first. Re-runs at marginal cost when inputs change. Outputs match the format your engineering manager already presents to clients.

Comparison matrix showing five overnight parametric installation engineering demos: freespan VIV, wall thickness, mudmat installation, pipelay, and jumper installation.
Proof: 992 parametric cases across four installation-engineering disciplines — freespan VIV (680 cases), wall thickness (72 cases), mudmat installation (180 cases), S-lay pipelay (60 cases) — plus a Ballymore manifold-to-PLET jumper worked example with 27 auto-generated OrcaFlex line sections and 81/81 validated tests. All five computed overnight on a single workstation.

Niches we serve

How a 48-hour custom run works

Send three things — vessel name or class, structure type and weight range, water-depth range. We pull or use your RAO data, configure the parametric sweep against your project metocean, and return a full screening report 48 hours later: heatmaps, governing load case per scenario, and seastate operability limits in the same format as our published demos. Screening engagements run $5K–$15K. If feasibility checks out, detailed engineering follows at $25K–$75K.

Get the one-page capability summary

Download Capability Summary (PDF, 1 page) Or email us directly: info@aceengineer.com