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UNLOCKING 20 YEARS OF STRUCTURAL CAPACITY FOR A SHORE ASSET IN THE NORTH SEA

Shell

PERFORMANCE IMPACT

Unlocking 20 years of additional structural capacity with engineering-grade certainty:

Extend asset life safely through physics-based structural simulation.
Optimize inspection and maintenance planning for real structural fatigue.
Reduce unplanned downtime through enhanced fatigue monitoring.

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CLIENT PERSPECTIVE

Akselos gives essential insights in extending asset life for fixed platforms in the uk sector. Its ability to eliminate conservatism in a timely manner, is expected to help extend operations of our platforms in the north sea beyond the year 2035.

Shell Structural Integrity Lead

CLIENT PERSPECTIVE

Akselos gives essential insights in extending asset life for fixed platforms in the uk sector. Its ability to eliminate conservatism in a timely manner, is expected to help extend operations of our platforms in the north sea beyond the year 2035.

Shell Bonga’s Asset Manager

THE CHALLENGES

50-year-old fixed platform operating in the North Sea.

Safe and sustainable extension of operational lifespan.

Eliminate structural conservatism without compromising integrity.

OUR APPROACH

Akselos deployed a high-fidelity structural twin of the 50-year-old fixed platform, capturing its real fatigue condition and structural behavior under operational loads. By replacing conservative assumptions with physics-based modeling, the operator gained visibility into true fatigue margins across critical components.

This structural insight enabled targeted inspection planning and evidence-based life extension decisions. With validated structural capacity, the operator could safely extend platform life while optimizing maintenance strategies and reducing unnecessary interventions.

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