BW Offshore – Learning from failures

BW Offshore - Learning from failures

Preventing future accidents

In recent months, we partnered once again with SAYFR, this time led by the brilliant Dr. Torkel Soma, to create a comprehensive Major Accident Awareness program for BW Offshore, a renowned international company in the floating production solutions sector of the Oil & Gas industry.

Our collaboration facilitated a dynamic blend of storytelling techniques and technical approaches, driven by our client’s deep appreciation for the power of visual communication.

The final content package comprises two impactful 3D animated case films examining past accidents in detail, along with a film exploring lessons from different industries, notably the story of the Boeing 737 Max 8.

Supplementary elements include 2D animations and filmed discussions with Dr. Soma, covering topics like cognitive biases and the psychology surrounding failures.

The package further provides speaker notes for facilitators, offering a complete framework that engages both emotions and intellect,  aimed at nurturing reflection and plenary discussions.

Our team is deeply thankful for being part of such a meaningful project – propelled by an ambitious client, a shared belief in our content’s transformative power, and a goal as clear and ambitious as preventing future major accidents.

 

“Mount Visual’s creative skills have made the complex subject of major accident prevention accessible to everyone within our company. It was a pleasure working with the Mount Visual team, and I would not hesitate to work with them again on future projects.”

Mike McAreavey, Head of Operational Integrity, BW Offshore.

Facts

Client
BW Offshore

Industry
Oil & Gas

Target Audience
All employees

Deliveries
Film Production
3D Animation
2D Animation
Advisory Services

Film production for Marti

Film production inside the mountain!

Together with our good friend and collaborator Christer Fasmer we have worked with film production for entrepeneur Marti for quite some time.

Marti is contracted to create the tunnell for light rail and pedestrians throught mount Løvstakken in Bergen.

Marti is a client that truly believes in visual communication and together we have done films on everything from work culture and what it means to feel safe at work to highly technical tales of modern tunnell excavation.

The mount Løvstakken tunell is part of the Bergen Light rail project stage 4, and will open for travellers in late 2022 / early 2023.

Facts

Client
Marti AS

Industry
Entrepeneur

Target Audience
Employees & Recruitment
External stakeholders

Deliveries

Film production
3D Animation

 

 

Virtually Safe - Safety training in VR

Safe & portable training in a virtual environment.

Vestdavit is a Bergen, Norway based producer of davit cranes with clients within commercial fleets and coast guards throghout the world.

Our Virtual Reality solution for Vestdavit is a simulator of their Davit crane TDB-5000.

In the simulator the user is trained in crane operation and the correct procedure for lowering and retrieving a lifeboat / rib.

The goal is that crane operators should be well accustomed to controlling the crane and how the crane operates under different weather scenarios prior to using the real crane at sea.

The solution uses a proprietary network protocol to communicate with a real crane controller to make the training as realistic as possible and to also train muscle memory.

In a portable package the solution offers training in complicated operations, safe ways to experience unwanted scenarios and an immersive and true to life way to experience crane handling.

 

Facts

Client
Vestdavit

Industry
Maritime

Target Audience
Crane Operators

Deliveries
Virtual Reality

Focusing on clean water!

New corporate film for Sterner, focusing on water quality.

Sterner is an ambitious norwegian company and a supplier of technology for clean water across four primary markets, Drinking water, Aquaculture, Maritime and Wastewater treatment.

In Mount Visual we’ve had the pleasure of working with Sterner throughout 2021, producing a new corporate film in both English and Norwegian versions, worked on implementing the use of VR in design work as well as various photoshoots.

The corporate film production was a creative and fun process with an ambitious client, inviting us to facilities across Norway, amongst others to beatiful Lofoten.

The corporate film premiered on AquaNor 2021 and was very well received both internally and externally.

We are very grateful for our projects together thus far and look forward to continuing our cooperation!

Photography by our friend, Francisco Munoz.

 

«All deadlines have been met, budgets respected and maintained with transparency throughout all our projects together. We couldn’t be happier with the results and our experience with Mount Visual is that they are true professionals. There is no doubt that this collaboration will continue for a long time.»

– Ida Grønli, Head of marketing and Communication, Sterner AS

 

Facts

Client
Sterner AS

Industry
Drinking Water
Aquaculture
Maritime
Wastewater management

Target Audience
B2B Sales
Recruitment

Deliveries
Film production
Animation
Advisory Services
Photography

 

 

Emerson - Interactive real-time visualization

Visualizing real-time data for a Fortune 500-company

For Emerson we have developed a realtime interactive visualization application for their multiphase flow metering technology.  A multiphase flow meter is a tool widely used in the oil and gas industry to monitor the content and flow inside oil and gas pipes.

Roxar, owned by Emerson, is widely regarded as producing the most reliable and technologically advanced multiphase meters available on the market. Using a wide range of different sensors, the meters outputs data that describes the mix between oil, gas and water, velocities, and distribution up to 10 times per second.

Since no one can actually see inside the pipes, the data must be interpreted by professionals to understand which flow regime is currently running in the pipes. To make this interpretation easier for their end-users, Emerson gave us the challenge to create an application that could give a realistic visualization of the measurements and data output.

The application we developed supports both live data as well as loading historical data or simply fiddling around with input parameters yourself (such as Gas Fraction and Water Liquid Ratio) and visualizing the result in real-time. The application exists as both an installation-free web-app, and a standalone desktop application.

The application is used by Emerson to support education, sales efforts and to add value to the multiphase meter offering to existing clients.

Facts

Client
Emerson Autmation Solutions

Industry
Oil & Gas

Target Audience
O&G Operators, Metering Engineers, Asset Managers

Deliverables
Unity Application

 

Animation for Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean

A compelling 3D-animation for a leading provider in the RoRo- and Breakbulk-segment.

We have worked with our friends in Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean for a long time, and our latest bigger project together is a 3D-animation that tells the story of their offering to the market within the RoRo- and Breakbulk-segment.

The animation also shows off WWOs new look, with vessels and equipment donning brand new colours.

All the equipment, cargo as well as the RoRo-vessel is 3D-modelled by us prior to starting the animation process. These models are also found on WWOs new website as well as in other marketing material.

 

Facts

Client
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean

Industry
Shipping

Target Audience
Manufacturers & Exporters

Deliverables

3D modelling
Animation

 

 


Educational experiences - the new Hardanger Aqua Center

Learn about fish farming in the picturesque Hardangerfjord

Hardanger Akvasenter is a new exhibit and experience located in Øystese, Norway which is open to the public. Connected to Norwegian salmon producer Lingalaks’ viewing concession for salmon in the picturesque Hardangerfjord, the center is around 100 square meters and consists of 9 individual stations containing films, animations, physical exhibits and interactive experiences.

The center aims to tell a sober and science-based tale of raising salmon in the Hardangerfjord, based on local history and geography and to not shy away from the difficulties and challenges that still face the industry. The entire exhibit is bilingual, with content presented in both Norwegian and English.

Mount Visual has developed the center and all related content together with designers from our friends in Haltenbanken and Tønder and the feedback has been very positive.

The children love the interactive salmon wall, and adults enjoy the interactive scale-model of the Hardangerfjord.

If you happen to be in the area, stop by and check it out!

 

Facts

Client
Lingalaks

Industry
Aqua Culture

Target Audience
General Audience

Deliverables

Exhibition design
Film production
Animation
Game development
Interactive experiences

 

 

 

 

 

A holistic experience: Big Blue

 

Big Blue is a joint venture between salmon farmer Lerøy Vest and Museum Vest in Bergen, Norway.

The background for the project is that Lerøy Vest was granted a viewing concession connected to aqua culture on salmon, trout and rainbow trout. As a viewing concession this one is unique, for the first time also including the production of algae and mussels through the project Ocean Forest.

Big Blue contains development of a fact- and knowledge-based exhibition on aqua culture with a bigger picture perspective, looking a biology, sustainability and technology. The exhibition is both physical and digital and is designed to a be a truly immersive experience for its audience. In Mount Visual, we had the pleasure of working on about 20 animations, or roughly 60 minutes of animated content for the exhibition together with our friends in design agency Haltenbanken.

 

Big Blue opened its doors, June 15th 2020.

Facts

Client
Lerøy / Museum Vest

Industry
Fish farming

Target audience
General Audience

Deliverables
Animation

Kappa Offshore Solutions - Animation

Sometimes smarter – is smaller.

We were delighted when we were approached by Kappa Offshore Solutions, a specialist company outside of Paris with services and solutions within seismic, hydrodynamics and field operations.

They had a clear-cut pitch on a new and exciting concept within marine seismic and wanted us to visualize their thoughts.

A fun project with just the right balance between providing technical information while also being concise and to-the-point.

«I am really impressed by the way Mount Visual captured the whole idea of Squadseis and made it understandable for our target audiences.»

– Sandrine Soulier, Strategy, Sales & Marketing, Kappa Offshore Solutions

Facts

Client
Kappa Offshore Solutions

Industry
Marine Seismic

Target Audience
Shipowners, Oil Companies, the Energy Industry

Deliveries
Animation

 

 

The cover of Science Magazine!

Birkeland Centre for Space Science on the cover of Science Magazine with our illustration!

Science is one of the most recognized scientific journals in the natural sciences. There is intense competition among researchers from all over the world to have their scientific results published. Of more than 30.000 submitted papers each year, only around 2.700 are published in Science. Promotion on the cover page is even more prestigious; Each week the Chief Editor of Science chooses only one scientific result that he would like to promote on the cover page of the printed journal.

We are incredibly happy that our client, Birkeland Centre for Space Science are experiencing a high degree of interest for their research on gamma rays resulting from ligthning flashes and that our visualization of the phenomena can contribute to better science-based communication!

You can read more about the phenomena and the science behind it at Science Magazine.

Facts

Client
Birkeland Centre for Space Science

Industry
Research

Target Audience 
Generelal Population

Deliveries
Illustration