An advanced metocean risk management tool to plan, test and optimise - before you mobilise
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20+ years
of historical metocean data available per simulation
fixed + floating
both wind farm types supported
±2 days
forecast accuracy on a real 7-month construction campaign
Plan and optimise offshore wind farm construction and operations in a virtual environment. ForeCoast® Marine simulates entire construction and O&M campaigns using historical weather constraints and operational constraints, drawn from global metocean data spanning many years.
Weather delays are one of the biggest risks in offshore wind campaigns, driving up costs and causing missed milestones.
ForeCoast® Marine is a web-based tool that helps developers, consultants and O&M managers plan more effectively, identify campaign bottlenecks, minimise downtime, and optimise project delivery across both construction and O&M phases. By leveraging metocean data, it delivers significant CAPEX and OPEX savings.
Proven accuracy, tested on real projects
ForeCoast® Marine’s forecasts have been validated against real, completed campaigns, including a 7-month construction programme where its campaign duration prediction was within 2 days of its actual finish date.
Why ForeCoast® Marine?
Optimised timing & resources
Identify bottlenecks and potential downtime earlier to optimise vessel, personnel and resource allocation.
Reduce risk & cost
Reduce costly downtime and delays with quantified simulation results.
Lower environmental impact
Efficient campaign planning and reduced vessel time help meet sustainability goals.
Enhanced transparency
Clear simulation outputs and risk metrics demonstrate proactive risk management.
Flexible modelling for real project conditions
Every offshore wind and marine campaign carries different risks – from stress-testing a new product concept, to comparing installation strategies, understanding weather-driven bottlenecks, or modelling how an O&M strategy will perform over the long term. ForeCoast® Marine lets teams model a campaign around the specific questions that matter for their project, using historical metocean data from hindcast models or on-site observations.
Because it tests campaigns against historical weather data rather than a single assumed scenario, ForeCoast® Marine surfaces the bottlenecks, weather sensitivities and cost drivers that a simplified, average-year assessment can miss.
From concept validation to installation and O&M
ForeCoast® Marine supports decision-making:
Early concept validation – test how installation and O&M campaigns for a new foundation, floater or installation method would play out under real-world weather conditions, before committing to physical prototypes or sea trials.
Installation planning – simulate full construction campaigns, from port-to-vessel transfer through to offshore works and return to port, to compare strategies and manage weather window predictions.
Operations & maintenance – evaluate O&M strategies and understand the downtime impact of maintenance events across the project’s operational lifetime.
By making this kind of testing possible earlier and more convenient than physical trials, ForeCoast® Marine helps teams understand the real-world implications of design and strategy decisions while there is still time to act on them.
Who is it for?
Offshore wind developers
Marine logistics & installation contractors
Vessel chartering & procurement teams
Marine operations & risk analysis teams
Wind farm operators & O&M planners
Insurers, lenders' advisors & consultants
Optimisation backed by real-world offshore wind engineering expertise
ForeCoast® Marine has been developed by experienced offshore wind engineers and project developers, ensuring the software reflects real project constraints, practical logistics and the realities of delivering offshore wind and marine projects at scale.
This means the modelling isn’t purely theoretical. It’s grounded in real-world offshore wind engineering judgement, helping teams explore realistic, buildable strategies and reduce the risk of late-stage surprises.
ForeCoast® Marine is used across real projects and research programmes, including by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), Marine Power Systems, Walker Subsea, and the University of Bristol working with Wood Thilsted on the Buoyant Guyed Column (BGC) foundation concept.
Key features
All features
Strategic planning & risk management
| Offshore construction strategy simulation |
Simulate offshore construction campaigns to test, optimise and compare installation strategies before committing to real-world plans |
| Offshore operations & maintenance simulation |
Model long-term O&M strategies, including planned & unplanned maintenance events, vessels, technicians, weather downtime, energy generation and costs |
| Logistic risk management |
Assess how vessels, technicians, ports, transit routes, task durations, weather windows and resource constraints interact across complex marine operations |
| Project performance forecasting |
Forecast key performance indicators such as campaign duration, vessel cost, availability, energy generation and revenue |
| Multi-year statistical simulation |
Run many campaigns across historical datasets to build a robust statistical evidence base for decision making |
Metocean & weather risk
| Metocean weather window modelling |
Use historical metocean data to understand how wind, waves and other metocean thresholds affect project delivery and operational performance |
| Metocean database integration |
Select metocean data points from an integrated database as an alternative to uploading .csv files |
| Metocean data CSV upload |
Upload metocean time series data and map file columns to variables such as significant wave height and wind speed |
| Weather window analysis |
Apply metocean thresholds and delays to quantify when operations can be safely and efficiently carried out |
Project setup & geospatial inputs
| Port management |
Add one or more ports with coordinates and use them as mobilisation, loading, technician transfer and vessel home-port locations |
| Asset layout import |
Upload asset layouts using shapefiles, CSV files or CAD files, enabling realistic project layouts to be used in simulations |
| Asset generator |
Create asset layouts directly in the webapp interface, helping users simulate campaign scenarios quickly |
| Context map layers |
Add geospatial context layers, such as bathymetry rasters via user upload, to support project set-up and review |
| Asset design configuration |
Configure asset properties such as hub height, components, maintenance requirements and power output characteristics |
Construction planning
| Construction work packages & activity modelling |
Break offshore construction campaigns into work packages and underlying detailed activity chains with operations, durations, metocean thresholds, suspend–ability and component outcomes, allowing granular definition of logistical interactions and metocean dependence |
| Multiple work package scheduling |
Model dependencies and delays between work packages to quantify programme sequencing and overlap |
| Transit route definition |
Define outbound and return vessel routes between port and site, including customisable waypoints to represent realistic marine transit paths |
O&M strategy & maintenance planning
| Corrective maintenance modelling |
Define frequency, power reduction and associated maintenance tasks to simulate unplanned random failure events |
| Scheduled maintenance modelling |
Model recurring planned maintenance, such as annual servicing, with configurable intervals and start dates |
| Task resource requirements |
Specify whether maintenance tasks require technicians, vessels or particular vessel types, supporting realistic resource planning |
| Power curve upload |
Upload wind turbine power curves to support energy generation, availability and revenue modelling in O&M simulations |
Resources & logistics
| Vessel modelling |
Create vessel groups with capabilities, transit speeds, installation speeds, day rates, home ports and operational activities |
| Technician resource modelling |
Model technician groups, working rates, shifts, home ports, hiring arrangements and task resource requirements |
| Hiring and day rate configuration |
Configure long-term or short-term hiring assumptions and daily rates for vessels and technicians |
Workflow Efficiency & Reuse
| Simulation input validation |
Use required and optional input cards with dependency checks to confirm that simulations are ready to run |
| Template library |
Save and reuse input templates for assets, vessels, technicians, tasks and work package activities to improve consistency and efficiency |
| Simulation cloning |
Clone existing simulations to test alternative assumptions or strategies without rebuilding the simulation from scratch |
Scenario comparison & reporting
 Results comparison and downloads |
Compare simulation results across scenarios, view statistics and plots, and download results for reporting and further analysis |
| CAPEX and OPEX modelling support |
Generate evidence to support capital and operational expenditure modelling across construction and O&M phases |
Use ForeCoast® Marine to
Compare installation strategies
Compare vessel, feeder vessel and vessel-grouping options
Test different work sequencing approaches
Compare how different components and installation strategies affect campaign outcomes
Benchmark novel technology against established solutions
Assess weather downtime and bottlenecks
Identify which metocean thresholds are driving the most delay
Pinpoint the vessels, technicians, ports or activities creating the biggest bottleneck
Quantify weather-driven schedule and cost risk
Support FID and investment decisions with evidence-led risk assessment
Run sensitivity analyses and scenario evaluation
Test the impact of changes to vessel day rates
Test the impact of changes to metocean thresholds or timing
Test the impact of a change in port
Compare multiple scenarios side by side to support decision-making
Plan offshore construction campaigns
Forecast P10/P50/P90 campaign durations under realistic logistics and metocean constraints
Simulate full installation sequences from port to site and back
Compare strategies to identify weather-driven bottlenecks
Model floating and fixed-bottom wind farm campaigns
Plan O&M strategy
Evaluate maintenance strategies and their downtime impact
Understand the lifetime cost of failure events
Compare O&M vessel strategies
Support long-term O&M planning and budgeting
Validate new products & concepts
Test new foundation, floater or installation concepts before physical trials
Assess installation cost and schedule impact of new designs
Support product development and technology R&D
Flexible ways to use ForeCoast® Marine
Whether you want to build optimisation capability in-house, access our expertise or develop something tailored to your needs, ForeCoast Marine can be delivered in the way that works best for your organisation.
Use it
Build optimisation capability in-house
Bring ForeCoast Marine in-house with flexible licence options to suit your project requirements. Choose short-term or long-term access, with full training and ongoing support from our team, so you can make the most of ForeCoast Marine within your own workflows.
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Integrate it
Connect ForeCoast Marine with your existing tools and workflows.
Integrate ForeCoast Marine with your existing systems, data and processes, making advanced optimisation part of your wider engineering and design workflows.
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Solve it
Access ForeCoast Marine through Kinewell consultancy.
Let Kinewell apply ForeCoast Marine and our campaign modelling expertise to your challenge. We can carry out case studies, investigate design options, benchmark existing solutions or support your engineering team with complex project decisions.
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Build it
Build on ForeCoast Marine technology.
We can use ForeCoast Marine’s underlying algorithms and optimisation technology to create solutions tailored to your requirements. We can adapt existing capabilities, add new modules and functionality, or develop entirely new applications to address specific challenges and workflows.
Explore what’s possible with our custom solutions.