StormGeo Service Helps Cable Layers Avoid Bad Weather

Bergen-based StormGeo has launched a new weather forecasting service aimed at providing operators, owners and supporting agencies engaged in cable laying operations with tools to assess weather risks related to operations at sea and identify suitable weather windows for all operations.

StormGeo’s Cable Lay Service provides a Common Operating Picture (COP) with an intuitive portal interface which allows users to control displayed layers including metocean data, vessel locations, AIS tracking, satellite and radar imagery, visibility, ice conditions and other parameters.

The service is developed to help cable owners and cable operators improve the planning of their operations and make informed decisions, in order to know when, where and for how long weather conditions will allow for safe operations, StormGeo says.

“Cable laying operations are challenging, time critical and dependent on weather conditions,” StormGeo’s CEO Kent Zehetner said.

”It requires extensive expertise and highly accurate, up-to-date information to prevent project delays caused by bad weather and rough sea-state conditions. In an effort to support operators to reduce weather uncertainty we created StormGeo’s Cable Lay Service for better planning of operations and for keeping their employees safe, while reducing costs and saving time.”

If required, StormGeo can support operations with a dedicated onsite meteorologist that will provide decision support on operative windows, reducing the alpha factor for the operation, the company said.