Oil and Gas
Safety is a key issue in the success of offshore oil and gas projects. Adverse weather like squalls, tropical cyclones or frontal systems can be anticipated with mission-critical weather forecasts, backed by support from seasoned marine weather forecasters. Terra Weather specializes in providing reliable, site-specific weather forecasts and long-term risk assessment tools for offshore installations during drilling and production, including route forecasts for rig moves.
How can unforeseen weather conditions affect you?
O&G industries form the backbone of many offshore operations:
SAFETY
Avoid danger to your personnel, accidents and damages to your assets during bad weather
PLANNING
Your pre-project planning team needs thorough environmental study for feasibility assessment and engineering design
ENGINEERING
Knowing extreme weather is important for engineering design
TerraMet
Our weather experts provide you with highly detailed and accurate studies, advice, analysis and reports on global weather conditions and long-term weather trends to aid you in your operations planning, time-critical decision-making and engineering design. We specialize in ocean weather (deep-water current, temperatures), allowing you to schedule your operations and select materials for deep-water drilling or installations. Also manage your entire fleet with a single click.
All these are available on our user-friendly, cloud-based platform (on web, phone or tablet). Poor connections offshore? We also offer email forecasts, with 24/7 customer support.
TerraStats
You gain access to long-term weather tools for planning your offshore operations, a year ahead of time. With TerraStats, you can assess weather downtime and weather windows, taking into account your weather thresholds. Our tools are based on our historical weather database that is constantly updated, 24/7, and tailor-made to make your life easier. Risk-analysis and delay probability of your vessels due to unfavorable weather conditions are just a few of the solutions we offer.
Find out more about TerraMet or TerraStats, or contact us here.
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drilling contractors
Terra Weather specializes in providing weather forecasts for rig moves and weather studies for drilling campaigns.
How can unforeseen weather conditions affect you?
Your situation
Drilling contractors are
usually involved in high-stake,
high-reward operations. You
possess high-value assets:
• Drilling rigs
• Highly skilled staff
to conduct drilling operations, which require
precision and state-of-the-art
techniques
Due to low oil prices, you face
fiercer competition to secure drilling contracts. At the same time, operators often let drilling contractors bear the brunt of risk by giving you lump sum contracts.
With a low margin contract, it is essential for you to avoid risk and cut costs as much as possible, by avoiding damages and penalties for delays.
Drilling contractors are also at the frontlines of offshore O&G exploration projects. Although rigs are stable on location, drilling is often conducted in areas of severe weather, and thus exposed to high-risk situations such as tropical cyclones.
The Weather, in Real-Time
With TerraWaves, our weather experts provide you with highly detailed and accurate studies, advice, analysis and reports on global weather conditions and long-term weather forecasting to aid you in your operations planning and time-critical decision-making.
We specialize in ocean weather (deep-water or surface currents, temperatures, winds), allowing you to detect long period swell, schedule your operations and select your drilling equipment with ease. Also manage your entire fleet with a single click. With our user-friendly, cloud-based platform, you can input your vessel’s site position and speed, and obtain your forecasts immediately on your web, phone or tablet. Poor connections offshore? We also offer email forecasts, with 24/7 customer support.
The Weather, A Year Ahead
As our clients, you gain access to long-term weather tools for planning your offshore operations, a year ahead of time. Our tools are based on our historical weather database that is constantly updated, 24/7, and tailor-made to make your life easier.
With TerraStats, you can assess weather downtime and weather windows, taking into account your weather thresholds. Scheduling your operations instantly becomes more time-efficient, as you can avoid periods of bad weather and better estimate your journey’s duration.
offshore construction
As a major player in the maritime industry, accurate weather forecasts play a critical role in ensuring that your offshore construction operations (as well as many other projects that rely on the success of your operations) are completed safety and on time.
We understand that your projects are time-sensitive and require high precision, where the smallest weather disturbances could cause delays, accidents or structural damage to your equipment, resulting in losses of time, money and even lives. Terra Weather tackles these issues by providing you with reliable, site-specific weather forecasts and long-term planning tools for your operations.
How can unforeseen weather conditions affect you?
What you need
Site-Specific Forecasts
Your offshore construction projects can be affected by several weather conditions such as wind, waves, surface currents, ocean currents and temperature. You need reliable weather forecasts to anticipate potential problems, and prepare accordingly.
Route Forecasts
Construction vessels are very susceptible to weather. Route forecasts provide insight into the weather of your vessel's planned path, hundreds of miles ahead, enabling you to identify potential delays and take necessary measures to maximize your time.
The Weather, in Real-Time
With TerraWaves, our weather experts provide you with highly detailed and accurate studies, advice, analysis and reports on global weather conditions (surface currents, waves, winds, etc.) and long-term weather forecasting to aid you in your operations planning and time-critical decision-making.
With our user-friendly, cloud-based platform, you can input your vessel’s site position and speed, and obtain your forecasts immediately on your web, phone or tablet. Poor connections offshore? We also offer email forecasts, with 24/7 customer support.
The Weather, A Year Ahead
As our clients, you gain access to long-term weather tools for planning your offshore operations, a year ahead of time. Our tools are based on our historical weather database that is constantly updated, 24/7, and tailor-made to make your life easier.
With TerraStats, you can assess weather downtime and weather windows, taking into account your weather thresholds. Scheduling your operations instantly becomes more time-efficient, as you can avoid periods of bad weather and better estimate your journey’s duration.
Find out more about TerraWaves or TerraStats, or contact us here.
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HEAVY LIFTS
Heavy lift operations require high precision and handling your assets with extra care. Because they involve huge loads, even the smallest disturbances in swell or wind could cause significant structural damage to your equipment, your lifting surroundings and possibly even endanger your personnel. Terra Weather provides reliable and accurate weather forecasts specialising in long period swell detection to help ensure safe and efficient heavy lift operations.
How can unforeseen weather conditions affect you?
During heavy lifts operations
Long Period
Swell
Common yet hard to predict, this weather phenomenon can be damaging for lifts even if it’s low
Swell hits your vessel
Causes vessel to heave, albeit slightly
Heave & heavy loads
Generate momentum = great force
GREATER FORCE
Destructive enough to damage your structures and cranes
Huge Loss of Money + Time
1. Damages your heavy lift crane
2. Damages to your client’s assets
We provide you with reliable, site-specific weather forecasts that include long period swell as well as high-resolution winds, waves and currents. Using our user-friendly online platform, you can access weather updates instantaneously on your computer, phone or tablet, with dedicated support and troubleshooting –anytime, anywhere.
Find out more about TerraWaves, or contact us here.
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Offshore Engineering
Terra Weather provides offshore engineering and consultancy companies with reliable, high quality weather statistics and long-term weather tools for decision-making and engineering design criteria.
How can unforeseen weather conditions affect you?
accurate information, better decisions
Marine
Warranty
Rig
Approval
Drilling
Campaigns
Mooring
Design
Marine
Warranty
Rig
Approval
Drilling
Campaigns
Mooring
Design
As an offshore consultancy or marine warranty surveyor, you are tasked with handling multiple engineering projects and approvals for offshore locations. Having accurate weather information and understanding long-term weather risk on-site are essential for your design criteria and during planning stages.
TerraMet
Our weather experts provide you with highly detailed and accurate studies, advice, analyses and reports on global weather conditions and long-term weather trends. Information such as return period conditions for design criteria, scatter diagrams for surface currents, waves, winds and swell are available on our user-friendly cloud-based platform (available on web, phone or tablet, with dedicated customer support).
Decision Support Tools
As our clients, you gain access to decision support tools for planning your offshore operations, months ahead of time. Our tools are made to simplify accurate decision-making. Weather downtime
(TerraStats) and delay-probability (TerraNav) of your vessels due to unfavorable weather conditions are just a few of the solutions we offer.
Due to our investments in technology and staff expertise, we are able to generate these reports with significantly lower lead-time compared to our competitors.
Find out more about TerraMet, TerraStats or TerraNav, or contact us here.
heavy transport
As a heavy transport company, you utilize large vessels with bulky cargo that are highly susceptible to bad weather: projects are easily delayed due to weather downtime. TerraWaves and TerraNav were created as mission-critical, route-specific services to help keep your voyage safe and efficient.
How can unforeseen weather conditions affect you?
During HEAVY TRANSPORT OPERATIONS
HEAVY TRANSPORT VESSELS
Your vessels carry heavy and bulky structures (topsides, jack-ups, semi-subs, platform rigs, etc.)
SEVERE WEATHER
(e.g.,winds, waves, storms)
Instability
Affects vessel stability and cargo integrity
Huge Loss of Money + Time:
1. Damage to you or your client’s assets
2. Possible penalties from delays
TerraWaves
Our weather experts provide you with valuable advice, analysis and reports on global weather conditions to aid you in your operations planning. You can access real-time weather forecasts (surface currents, waves, winds, etc.) and cyclone tracking up to 7 days ahead. Our user-friendly cloud-based platform is available on web, phone or tablet, and we provide 24/7 customer support.
TerraNav
TerraNav is a user-friendly, interactive route-delay calculator that allows you to make quantitative estimates about the delay probability of your voyages due to bad weather, using our historical data and your vessel’s weather thresholds.
Find out more about TerraWaves or TerraNav, or contact us here.
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TerraStats – Risk analysis tools
Offshore SURVEY
As a survey company, you are concerned with project delay due to weather downtime. TerraStats was thus created as an objective, site-specific assessment of long-term weather risk (weather downtimes, weather windows), instantly available at your fingertips.
Inaccurate information, poorer decisions
Contracting Offshore Market
Low Oil Prices
Many offshore survey projects cancelled or put on hold
More players competing for less work
IT'S A BUYER'S MARKET
Survey companies are now forced to take on greater weather risk by working on lump-sum basis
What makes things worse?
Unanticipated weather downtime
Project completion delayed
Cost overruns and possible penalties
Current Solutions to Assess Weather Downtime
All companies experience attrition of experienced staff to competitors or through retirement.
Traditional weather studies are costly, have a long lead time and require expert interpretation.
Estimates might not be exact, as they are done based on intuition or experience (e.g., exceedances).
Feasibility studies lack the flexibility required to input specific vessel weather thresholds interactively.
TerraStats is a user-friendly and interactive tool designed to help your personnel analyse long-term risk, by easily assessing weather downtime up to a year in advance (in days or dollar value), taking into account your weather thresholds.
Find out more about TerraStats, or contact us here.
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Maritime Support
Support vessels are more susceptible to bad weather: projects are easily delayed due to weather downtime. TerraGo! was thus created as a cost effective, site-specific weather forecast to suit your unique needs.
How can unforeseen weather conditions affect you?
The offshore market is growing increasingly competitive. As a support vessel company, you want to expand your services and market reach to other regions, where your projects are subject to unfamiliar weather.
Free weather
forecasts from
NAVTEX
Less accurate, as it is area-based
Infrequently updated:
forecast is old by the time it is needed
Shorter time-range forecast:
may not be useful for planning
Weather forecasts
supplied by your
clients
Your clients determine their forecast
duration and locations, leaving you
with forecasts that may not contain
the information you need.
During off-hire periods, a support
company must source for their own
forecasts or rely on ‘free’ products.
THE LARGER PROBLEM
Your vessels are weather-sensitive. A small increase in sea conditions
could affect crew comfort, or even safety. We provide readily accessible
and highly accurate weather forecasts, which address both of these issues.
With our user-friendly online platform, you gain access to real-time, site-specific and highly accurate weather forecasts for as many locations as you need – all at a flat price. With attractive flat-price packages and pay-as-you-need modular add-ons, you control exactly what you need anytime, anywhere. TerraGo! is accessible from your computer, smartphone, or tablet.
Cruise Ships & Luxury Liners
As a cruise ship or liner, your voyage involves thousands of passengers and crew. Extreme weather not only causes significant weather delays, but also compromises the luxury experience that your guests are expecting during their stay with you. You want to be fully informed about weather risk and delay, ahead of time.
How can unforeseen weather conditions affect you?
An Example
Winds and Swell:
Common yet hard to
predict, worsened with lack
of high-quality forecasts
Wind or swell
hit your ship or
liner, causing roll
Your Guests Feel
Uncomfortable with
All the Movement:
You are obliged to slow
down to stay safe
Huge Losses of Money, Time and Reputation
TerraCruise
- High Quality Forecasts. High resolution, real-time weather forecasts, using our proprietary multiple models and data
- Route-Specific. Just send us your passage plan, and get forecasts up to two weeks ahead
- Support, 24/7. Call our meteorologists anytime, anywhere, for expert advice about critical weather
- Instantly Available. Results are delivered to your onshore and offshore staff via smartphone, tablet, web or email
- Only Pay for What You Need. With our pay-per-use system, keep your cruise experience stellar without the unnecessary cost
Find out more about TerraCruise, or contact us here.
Government
Weather prediction needs in Government
Public
Safety
Commercial
Operations
Military Use
Offshore
Current solution: national weather service
- Typically specialize only in local waters = limited global expertise
- Reliance on a single model = inaccurate data and lack of high-quality datasets
- Time wasted on developing solutions for new requirements
- Less time and tax payer dollars devoted to technological exploration
Turnkey Solutions
- Full Access & Customisation. You get complete control over usage. We can customize E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
- Privacy & Security. All our models and display software run on your premises, with highly secure IT infrastructure. Only you know the locations of your weather forecasts and hindcasts.
- Unlimited Locations Worldwide. Access unlimited locations at a flat fee. Why pay more and go through the trouble for forecasts on a daily basis?
- High Resolution Forecasts. With our multiple weather models, you get unparalleled accuracy and reliable datasets.
- Reduced Lead Time. We integrate our hardware and software into your in-house systems, giving you forecasts immediately, using our TerraWaves platform.
- Support, 24/7 (And We Mean It!). Get expert analysis and troubleshooting anywhere on the globe, at any time. Just call or email us.
Find out more about Turnkey Solutions, or contact us here.
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