Current state of the art for predicting downtime for offshore equipment is briefly reviewed and a new method for calculating downtime, using a Markov chain probability model to simulate all known operational and weather constraints, is described.The results of this method, applied to Santa Fe Engineering and Construction's Choctaw II pipelaying barge, are compared wi th actual downtime exper ienced dur ing one working season in the North Sea.
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