Offshore award
A transfer system designed to safely transport personnel to offshore installations recently won the Offshore Technology Conference 2009 Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award in Houston, Texas.
A transfer system designed to safely transport personnel to offshore installations recently won the Offshore Technology Conference 2009 Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award (BMEA), in
The Offshore Access System (OAS) marketed by AMEC in the
The system is designed to safely transfer personnel in sea states of up to 2.5m wave-height.
The OAS works with a combination of smart electronics, measuring the vessel movements with a patented connection sequence.
Such systems can be used for transporting personnel to offshore structures such as unmanned oil and gas platforms, navigation towers, offloading buoys and offshore wind farms.
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