Weather Windows is a software tool that allows the potential impact of weather downtime to be quantified for any offshore operation. It is available either as a service or can be purchased as a software package.

This software can assist decision making in the following areas:

• Commercial aspects of contract letting
• The level of commercial risk when bidding on a lump sum contract
• Selection of the most effective engineering solution

The software requires the following inputs supplied by the user:

• Definition of the offshore operation in terms of operating thresholds on each metocean parameter.
• Historical time series of relevant metocean parameters. Suitable wind and wave data may be obtained from the WorldWaves global database if required.