Safety Flash
Don’t lose your tow in heavy weather
Don’t lose your tow in heavy weather
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 32/16
- Emergency ResponseMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Vessel grounding
- Towing
- Marine industryUpstream oil and gas
- Marine waters
Summary
This safety flash highlights planning for significant towing operations through the groundings of Kulluk in Alaska and Transocean Winter near the Isle of Lewis. It points readers to investigations and a workgroup report addressing towage of mobile offshore drilling units in high-latitude environments, with wider relevance to offshore engineering.
Classifications: Vessel grounding.
Classifications: Towing; towage.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Marine waters.
Summary
Guidance from major drilling-unit towage incidents highlights preparation, weather monitoring and operating limits during heavy-weather movements.
IMCA SF 32/16. Themes: emergency response, marine operations, vessel and mooring.