ServicesReducing risk in the marine environment

At MetOceanWorks, we provide tailored metocean consultancy for offshore and coastal developments - helping clients make confident, data-driven decisions in complex marine environments.

From feasibility through to detailed design, installation, and operational planning, our expertise is built on advanced numerical modelling and deep sector knowledge. We deliver insights that enhance safety, efficiency, and reliability at every stage.

Our collaborative approach ensures robust metocean design criteria, operability assessments, and high-quality model data, all shaped to meet project-specific needs. Whether supporting offshore wind, marine energy, or coastal infrastructure, we work closely with industry leaders to transform metocean data into applicable understanding - driving smarter decisions and stronger outcomes.

Metocean insight you can trust - built around your project.

Expert metocean consultancy for safer, smarter marine projects

Metocean Consultancy

Specialist consultancy in meteorology and oceanography

Each site presents unique challenges - shaped by environmental factors, engineering demands, and client specifications. While standard analyses offer a useful starting point, we go further to uncover the critical details that drive project success.

Our consultancy blends established industry practices with innovative, bespoke solutions. This flexible approach allows us to tailor each project to the ideal mix of proven methodologies and cutting-edge techniques.

Using advanced numerical modelling and the latest analytical tools, our experienced team simulates estuarine, coastal, and offshore systems worldwide - providing compliant metocean assessments that capture location-dependent environmental processes.

Trusted expertise, tailored solutions, and deeper metocean insight.

Numerical Modelling and Data Services

High-quality numerical modelling and data to support marine projects

Our modelling expertise supports informed decision-making across all phases of marine projects. We provide global, regional, and site-specific data to support consultancy, operability studies, design bases, and environmental impact assessments.

With extensive experience in simulating estuarine, coastal, and offshore systems, we routinely apply advanced modelling tools such as SWAN and MIKE21 to generate reliable, high-resolution datasets - delivered as time-series or in spatial formats.

We combine cutting-edge in-house models with diverse external hindcast datasets. Through established strategic partnerships and streamlined data access tools, we deliver robust, comprehensive coverage.

Improved understanding and reliably reducing uncertainty, ensuring successful outcomes

Metocean Operability Statistics

Assessing environmental conditions to optimise marine operations

Effective planning in the early stages of a marine project is key to reducing risk and ensuring success. A detailed understanding of metocean conditions can enhance safety, optimise efficiency, reduce costs, and minimise downtime.

We offer a comprehensive assessment of how metocean factors influence marine operations - whether under typical conditions, during extreme events, or across complex installation or operational sequences.

Our standard offerings include simple summary statistics such as joint frequency distributions and rose plots, through to more sophisticated sequential downtime simulations and route planning.

Leveraging our deep expertise in numerical modelling and consultancy, we customize and expand these analytical frameworks to address each project's distinct challenges - delivering precise, operationally relevant information.

Data-driven insights enabling more resilient and efficient marine operations.

Metocean Design Bases

Analysis to support offshore feasibility and design

Accurate characterisation of metocean conditions is essential for the safe and efficient design, installation, and operation of offshore infrastructure. A robust metocean design basis integrates detailed analysis of wind, wave, current, water level, and other environmental parameters - accounting for extreme conditions with return periods of 100 years and beyond.

At MetOceanWorks, we specialise in establishing optimal metocean design criteria using advanced analytical techniques, including:

Spatial assessments of wind farm and cable corridor routes
Extreme value analyses using storm-based Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo inference, alongside comparison to traditional methods
Joint behaviours and environmental contours, including Extreme, Severe, and Normal Sea State characterisations
Operational criteria
Breaking wave assessments
Bespoke analyses tailored to client preferences and site-specific behaviours

We deliver high-quality metocean data and expert interpretation to support both feasibility studies and detailed engineering design. All reports are prepared in accordance with international standards such as DNV, ISO, and IEC, ensuring compliance with offshore industry and certification requirements.

Offshore design with trusted metocean intelligence.

Software Solutions

Custom metocean software solutions in the MATLAB environment

Metocean data analysis can be complex and time-consuming. We simplify the process by providing tailored software solutions in MATLAB and designed specifically for metocean professionals.

Our off-the-shelf MetOceanWorks Toolbox provides a suite of intuitive graphical interfaces to facilitate the exploration, analysis, and interpretation of metocean data. In addition, our extensive experience in tool development allows us to offer customisations to align with your organisation’s specific workflows and standards.

Whether modifications to core Toolbox functionality, creating bespoke add-ons, or entirely new tools, we are ideally placed to align our software solutions with your needs, alongside MATLAB mentoring and training to support your team’s development.

Streamline analysis with tools designed by experts, for experts.

Physical Processes for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

Modelling physical processes for offshore environmental assessment

We provide the specialist modelling that underpins the Physical Processes chapter of offshore EIAs. Our simulations help developers and consultants understand how construction and operational activities may influence waves, tides, currents, and sediment dynamics - supporting confident decision-making and regulator-ready submissions.

We model a range of physical impacts, from sediment plume dispersion during construction to hydrodynamic changes around offshore structures. Outputs are delivered as GIS-ready datasets and clear, concise technical reports designed for seamless integration into wider EIA documentation.

With proven experience across multiple offshore renewable projects in the UK and Europe, we are trusted by leading EIA consultants to deliver:

Technical rigour
Reliable, evidence-based insights
Clarity and transparency for regulators

Physical process modelling that supports confident, compliant offshore development.