RYDER is setting new benchmarks in offshore infrastructure security and reliability with its advanced cables and pipelines services. By leveraging meticulous analysis and optimisation, the company delivers tailored solutions that address the unique challenges of seabed installations. From site-specific insights to holistic risk management strategies, RYDER’s expertise ensures infrastructure is built to endure and perform, even in the harshest marine environments.
RYDER begins every project with a rigorous site-specific analysis, employing comprehensive surveys and data collection to assess seabed conditions, geological features, and environmental variables. This level of detail uncovers potential risks and vulnerabilities, enabling precise, project-specific risk mitigation strategies.
Their Cable Burial Risk Assessments (CBRAs) follow Carbon Trust guidelines and incorporate bespoke modelling innovations. These assessments are designed to ensure regulatory compliance while identifying optimal burial depths to protect cables from the greatest potential threats. The result is a comprehensive risk analysis and practical solutions that maintain product integrity during installation and throughout the asset’s lifecycle.
For pipelines, RYDER’s Pipe Soil Interaction (PSI) evaluations address seabed stability at every stage of a project, from touchdown to long-term operations. Their assessments integrate seabed conditions, hydrodynamics, and installation parameters to guarantee infrastructure resilience against shifting underwater landscapes.
Cable routeing, a cornerstone of efficient offshore infrastructure, is performed using advanced GIS and CAD tools. RYDER meticulously integrates input data, including multibeam echosounder surveys, side-scan sonar, and sub-bottom profiler data, to design routes that account for seabed topography, obstructions, and trenchability. The result is a route optimised for installation and operational success.
RYDER’s commitment to comprehensive solutions extends to holistic risk management strategies. Through a detailed process of hazard identification, risk analysis, and customised mitigation planning, they address threats across all phases of infrastructure design, installation, and maintenance.
Specialist services, such as crossing design optimisation and secondary protection design, further enhance the resilience of offshore infrastructure. RYDER evaluates options including mattresses, rock bags, and rock berms, ensuring each solution is tailored for stability, installation efficiency, and long-term performance. Whether pre-lay or post-lay configurations are required, their designs account for hydrodynamic forces and stability needs, minimising risks throughout the project’s lifespan.
By combining innovation, precision, and a commitment to excellence, RYDER safeguards the future of offshore infrastructure. From the seabed to operations, their services ensure reliability and security at every step.
RYDER specialises in delivering bespoke cables and pipelines solutions, enhancing offshore infrastructure with expert analysis and tailored risk management.
Tekmar Group plc (LON:TGP) vision is to be the leading provider of technology and services to the global offshore energy markets. The Group’s three primary operating companies are RYDER, Tekmar Energy and Pipeshield International.
