Crisis demands Innovation.

Stormlinker introduces an entirely new and and innovative rescue system to the offshore Industry.

Our patent has been developed in close cooperation with Norwegian heavyweights within energy production and rescue and is now ready to meet the marked.

Flexible Connection

  1. Connection whatever the weather

  2. Safety distance between drifter and operator

  3. Connection regardless of whether the drifter is manned or not

  4. Connection whatever the vessel

Reduces risk

  1. Reduces risk for personnel

  2. Reduces the risk of material damage

  3. No damage to drifting vessels

  4. Fewer uncertainties compared to existing solutions

Successful Offshore Test

StormLinker has performed a successful offshore test together with Equinor outside of Mongstad.

The purpose of the test was to evaluate the performance, reliability, functionality, and safety of the equipment under offshore conditions.

The Idea

As a former officer on anchor handling vessels, Thomas Netland saw the need for a safer way to secure drifting vessels in bad weather.

Situations with drifting vessel occur often, and there are numerous reasons to why; Fire, blackout, evacuation(unmanned), lost steering, fishing gear tangled in the prop. Every situation is a potential serious hazard to marine installations and coast lines.

However, the situation that triggered the development of StormLinker was a unmanned barge drifting around in the North Sea for days after the tow snapped in heavy weather. Several attempts with existing equipment were made, but they all failed repeatedly due to the weather conditions. In desperation, life threatening situations occurred for the rescue personnel.

The drifting barge was predicted to collide with the Valhall oil field. Both Valhall and Ecofisk oil fields where evacuated and shut down. In the end the anchor handling vessel that Thomas worked on were able to secure the barge right next to the Valhall installations when the weather calmed down. But it was clear that this situation, and all other situations with drifting vessel are all reliant on coincidence with the weather showing mercy.  

We needed an effective way of securing the tow no matter what state the drifter was in, no matter weather conditions, and making sure all rescue personnel is located in safety zones inside the vessel under operation; Introducing StormLinker.

The Company

The StormLinker office is located in Flekkefjord, Norway.

Engineering, development and production is done together with our partner Einar Øgrey Farsund AS. www.ogrey.no

The StormLinker team is focusing on developing equipment for serious security deviations. Crisis still occur, and it demands innovation to prevent catastrophise with regards to the environment, material damage and human loss.