MOC acts as a Marine Warranty Surveyor either on behalf of the underwriters or for self-insured Clients.
Our marine surveyors have experience in a wide variety of marine environments – including deep water and shallow water projects. From single operation approvals right through to major offshore energy projects, our marine surveyors have the knowledge to ensure that risks are minimised while the workability and project efficiency remain high.
A Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS) provides independent third-party review, operational monitoring that lead to approval of high value and/or high risk offshore construction and marine transportation projects, from planning to the execution stages.
In order to create a friendly and straight forward MWS understanding, we have developed our own Minimum Requirements for each operation typology while giving the liberty to our customers to follow an internationally recognized MWS requirements package of their choice (e.g. DNV-GL-Noble Denton Guidelines).
We offer support to other MWS in case of lack of capacity or extremely difficult cases where our expertise is required.
We offer our own MWS Training Course to other entities (e.g. MWS Companies, Subcontractor Management, Offshore Developers) whenever there is a need for understanding the MWS principles and concepts in detail.
We can cover a wide variety of MWS specific instances such as (but not limited to):
– Fixed Off-shore Platforms related operations
– Loadout, Transport & Installation of Steel Jackets, Gravity Base Structures (GBS), Topsides
– Floating Offshore Platforms related operations
– Floating Storage Offloading (FSO), Floating Production Storage, Semi-submersible Platforms, Tension-leg Platforms, off-shore mooring systems, topsides, production and injection modules, risers and umbilicals, etc.
– Float-on / Float-out operations
– Mobile Offshore Units (including Drilling Units) related operations – positioning, relocation and towing operations
– Offshore Wind Farms related operations – Loadout, Transport and Installation of Foundations, Wind Turbine Generators, Cables, Substations, Accommodation Platforms – Tidal Turbines – Loadout, Transport and Installation
– Decommissioning of Offshore Energy Facilities related operations – Environmentally friendly removal of decommissioned offshore oil and gas platforms, modules and wind farms
– Pipe and Cable related operations – rigid, flexible, pipe in pipe, bundles, tie-ins, deep and shallow water specific operations, landfalls, cable jointing, umbilicals (control, communication, power cables, hydraulic connections) installation
– Subsea related operations – Manifold, Christmas Trees, flow lines and umbilicals, end sleds, assemblies, jumpers, flying leads, various subsea equipment / modules installation
– Towages and Marine Transports (self-propelled vessels) related approvals – by barge / floating modules / damages vessels
– Refineries, Power and Petro-chemical Units – Land and Marine Transport of pre-assembled modules, towers, structures and equipment
Addressing the offshore MWS environment, the following generic classes of operations can be covered by our experts:
– Weighing Operations – Whenever a certain Module needs to be weighed on Client’s demand or due to objective COG or mass sensitive operations, our experts can assess accept, witness and report
– Land Transportations – For high value or high risk land transports of oil and gas or renewable industry assets
– Load-outs / Off-loading Operations – Loadouts and Off-loading operations of various high value or high risk cargoes for Oil & Gas and Renewables Industry
– Float-on / Float-off Operations – relevant for dry transport of floating units
– Marine Transportations / Towages – these are specific to a very diverse and complex class of MWS operations that are mainly linked to the sea transport of high value ort high risk cargoes (related to their potential loss and subsequent impact to certain projects)
– Offshore Installation Operations (Including Subsea Operations) – this class of operations occurs in the final stage of the Off-shore Construction and it may lead (if successful) to the termination of the MWS scope
– Asset Approach and Departure – these are sets of operations generally related to moored or DP units
– Jack-up & Jack-down Operations – these are sets of operations related to jack-up units
Typically a Loss Adjuster is an independent survey house employed by insurance companies, governmental agencies or corporate entities to investigate, manage and adjust a claim (it is sometimes referred as “claim adjuster”). The Loss Adjuster is employed by and acts on behalf of the insurance companies, assessing large and complicated claims mostly.
As Loss Adjusters, we look at the amount of loss or damage and decide how much compensation the insurance company pays out to the policy holder.
We, as loss adjusters, compile our vast expertise gained on years of offshore experience to assist key stakeholders, insuring a fair and reasonable outcome from complex and contentious losses.
Our Company through its technical experts has extensive involvement with regulatory bodies like (but not limited to) ISO (International Standardization Organization), DNVGL (Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd), IMCA (International Marine Contractors Association) or ASRO (Romania Standardization Association). With support of internationally recognized software platforms of in-house developed applications we can insure reduced operational risks in condition of limited schedule, tight budget and strict quality requirements.