
DNV, through its commercial software house DNV Software, has acquired Jardine Technology Limited (JTL).

The shipping industry is increasingly focusing on hull integrity - both for reasons of safety and of cost-efficiency. Continous control of a ship's hull condition creates business advantages to ship operators and owners, providing an important selling point in relation to charterers.

There is a growing need for more advanced hydrodynamic analysis of offshore structures. To support this, DNV Software has enhanced its computational engine to include such nonlinearities.

BMT TITRON, based in Newcastle, UK, recently purchased DNV Software’s Nauticus Early Design package.

From a record high attendance last year, we more than doubled the attendance at this years DNV Software Conference at Høvik in June. The latest news from our Nauticus, Sesam and Safeti suite of products and solutions were covered along with many interesting customer presentations. The main highlight was the key note speech from CEO in DNV, Henrik O. Madsen, where he pinpointed DNV’s position in the market and the importance of these software conferences held world-wide every year.

Customers have played an important role in the current release of Nauticus Early Design, based both on pre-studies and on implementation projects.

DNV is currently running a major research programme to investigate the effects of hull flexibility on various ships types.

Focus has been on enhancing both productivity and quality of ship design and approval work. With this release we have made a leap toward the future of class rule software.

An agreement has been signed between China Special Equipment Inspection & Research Centre (CSEI) and DNV on Orbit Onshore AST.

DNV Software is releasing a new multi-user version of Nauticus Machinery with new versions of the Nauticus Shaft Alignment and Nauticus Gear Faceload distribution calculation tools.

SCG CHEMICALS and DNV Software signed a purchase agreement on the Risk Based Inspection software Orbit Onshore and Orbit+ IDS in March.

The 2008 SEA Software Conferences were held 8 April in Singapore and 10 April in Kuala Lumpur with more than 160 participants in four different symposiums.

The launch of DNV Software's new DeepC Riser Analysis Package, based upon MARINTEK's Riflex software, is taking place during OTC in Houston next week. To mark the event we will be hosting a riser seminar at DNV's Houston office on 6 May.

DNV Software is releasing new versions of Framework, Postresp, Stofat and Xtract, including updated features for the ISSC spectrum, the wind fatigue model, unit conversions and export model & result for external presentation.

30 delegates from 5 different divisions of SINOPEC recently received a Safeti software application advanced training in Beijing. Moreover, DNV has won a new software contract with Shengli oilfield, SINOPEC, followed by a Safeti software product training to Shengli.

Succesful Sesam training held in March 2008 for CSBC, NTU and NKMU in Kaohsiung covering Hydrodynamic and Wave Load analyses.

With this release of Brix Explorer – Sesam Configuration version 3.0-10, DNV Software has included important new features as possibilities of exporting analyses and projects between users and a simpler and more intuitive user interface.

The most recent HydroD version 3.0-01 enables our users to do hydrostatic and hydrodynamic analysis both in frequency and time domain from one unique program.

DNV Sofware is pleased to announce that a new version of Sestra, version 8.3-05, was released 25 January 2008.

We are please to announce the release of Phast version 6.53.1, which was completed in December 2007. This latest version of Phast includes a number of developments to address issues raised following the Phast v6.53 release in July 2007.

2007 was the most successful year ever for Phast and this has resluted in high demand for training globally. DNV Software recently completed on-site training at the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) in the middle-east.

Behzad Stéphane Vahida of CGGVeritas, the world’s leading international pure-play geophysical company, explains why Sesam was the best choice.

Just three months after the launch of Nauticus Hull Integrity, DNV Software won new contracts for three major ship operators. The last member of the family is containership operator APL in Singapore, who signed a contract on Nauticus Hull Integrity for 12 of its container ships in October.

The biggest ever DNV Software Conference with more than 200 participants is going on in Shanghai 8-9 November 2007.

“Sesam will be an important implement of our own-developed codes and experiment facilities, helping us to take the challenges in the developing market of ocean engineering in China,” says Zhu Dexiang, Vice Director of China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC). “Now we are looking forward to more close cooperation with DNV in research and innovation on ship and offshore technology.”

Following on from the DNV Software Conferences held in Oslo and Korea and the Safeti User Conference held in South Africa earlier this year, DNV Software’s Safeti Product Marketing team were back ”on the road”, hosting Safeti User Conferences in a number of locations.

The offshore community in and around Houston is busier than ever, and still key engineers from most of our Sesam users invested time in participating at this years Software Conference in Houston 17 October.

DNV Software's yard applications for analysis and design of ship structures are regarded as the most advanced tools to support the application of CSR for tankers and bulkers. Developments and application of this leading technology were presented at the conference through three well received papers.

building on the September 2006 version with added functionality for strength evaluation of tank and bulk carriers according to the IACS common structural rules.

The Sesam software package will be an important implement of own-developed codes and experiment facilities for China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC)

Following on from the recent successful Safeti suite product training held in Beijiing, 12 delegates from 5 different divisions of Sinopec visited DNV Software in London to receive advanced Safeti QRA training from 9 to 12 July.

It was full house at the French public Phast and Safeti software training at the hotel "Le Meridien Etoile" in Paris 10-13 July. This was the second time DNV Software offered an open course in French, and like the first time the event was successful and fully booked.

Looking for a set of calculation tools for strength assessment of rotating machinery components and systems? Look no further.

We are pleased to announce the release of Phast Version 6.53 containing updates to a number of areas of the program.

to meet the growing demand for software solutions for offshore structures

DNV Software and DNV Energy joined forces to ensure DNV had a high profile at the 12th International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 22nd to 24th May.

More than 70 customers attended the traditional DNV Software Conference in Busan 18 June. This year's conference covered, for the first time in Korea, all DNV Software brands: Brix, Nauticus, Sesam and Safeti.

PetroChina will use their Liao Yang plant for evaluating Orbit+ as their future Asset Management System. The agreement has a potential for 20 more plants in the next phase, pending a successful pilot project.

More than 70 customers attended the traditional DNV Software Conference at Høvik 31 May - 1 June 2007. This year's conference coverered our Brix, Nauticus, Sesam and Safeti brands. We received very positive feedback from the participants and would like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and lecturers who participated in order to make the conference such a success.

DNV Software firmly believes it is on the right track when it comes to providing software tools and solutions to help designers and operators manage risks throughout an FPSO's life cycle, thereby ensuring continued fit-for-purpose asset condition.

Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry is one of the biggest shipyards in China. Bohai has purchased Nauticus Hull as the first CSR tanker design in the world since the IACS Common Structural Rules came into effect.

With improved modelling capabilites of floating structures, seamless integration between the various software tools, and efficient capacity checking, Sesam has become a complete and modern tool for the efficient engineering of offshore structures.

One of the important benefits of Nauticus Early Design is the ability to produce classification drawings automatically from the 3D concept model.

During recent months, we have seen an increasing number of French customers requesting Safeti training, ranging from introductory Phast product training to advanced modelling training.

The first ever Safeti public training in China was held at the DNV Academy in Shanghai 2-5 April. It was arranged due to the increasing demand for Safeti products in the market and as a follow up of the Risk Management Conference in 2006.

The largest shipyard in China, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard (SWS), has recently purchased the Nauticus Torsional Vibration and Shaft Alignment modules from DNV Software's Nauticus Machinery suite of software products.

Wasim is a time-domain motion and load prediction program capable of analysing practically any displacement vessel, including multi hull wave interaction and forward speed effects in its direct time step analysis. Since obtaining Wasim in January 2006, Viking Systems has used Wasim to predict motions and structural loads for trimarans, FPSOs, OSVs, and ocean-going barges in support of its structural designs.

With the new capabilities of GeniE and HydroD, you create one concept model only for hydrostatics, hydrodynamics and structural analysis. Key benefits are reduced cost and higher quality.

DNV Software is to supply the China Classification Society (CCS) with the Nauticus software. This is a further indication of China’s technological advance.

21. November 2006, DNV Software in Houston invited existing and potential clients to our yearly software conference with main focus on Sesam. Even though this was arranged in the week of the Thanksgiving Holiday, more than 30 participants attended. We were especially pleased to have many of the new Sesam clients present.