Offshore sourcing is the latest trend unfolding where companies look for cheaper offshore resource options to reduce their baseline costs. This involves the retrenchment of more expensive onshore resources, to be replaced by the hiring of cheaper offshore resources. A key activity is the transfer of knowledge from the onshore resource to the offshore resource. This paper looks at the key activi...

This paper reveals that logistics make up at least 17% of annual operational expenditure costs for offshore wind farms. Annual operational expenditure is found to vary by a factor of 9.5, making its share of levelized cost of energy for offshore wind range from 13% to 57%. These are key findings of a 20-month research project targeting cost reduction initiatives for offshore wind systems. The f...

The sourcing of projects from high-cost (onshore) to lower-cost (offshore) countries requires overcoming challenges broadly classified as coordination issues and status differences. Increasingly, onshore firms are turning to immigrants from offshore destinations, assuming they will enable effective collaboration by leveraging their bicultural backgrounds. We investigate the role of onshore immi...

In the context of considerable focus upon offshore safety, relatively little attention has been paid to the experiences of offshore workers themselves. This paper begins with a discussion of the origins, nature, and likely consequences of UKOOA’s ‘Cost Reductions in a New Era’ initiative, which addresses itself directly to questions of culture and cost reductions in the sector. We then note cha...

AbstrAct Offshore outsourcing has been a growing phenomenon in recent years. Rarely will an IT professional pick up a trade publication or journal without some article relating to outsourcing or offshore outsourcing. This in turn raises the question for IS educators—what should we be doing to better prepare our graduates for a future where offshore outsourcing is a reality? This article looks a...

Business process outsourcing (BPO) is fast becoming a mainstream business phenomenon and in recent times offshore business process outsourcing has gained momentum, with a number of companies wanting to capitalize on the benefits of offshore services. Effectively transitioning the identified business processes to a cost effective geographic location and stabilizing them in a defined timeframe co...

The effects of offshore aquaculture on SBT health (particularly parasitic infections and haematology) and performance were the main aim of this study. Two cohorts of ranched Southern Bluefin tuna (SBT) (Thunnus maccoyii) were monitored throughout the commercial season, one maintained in the traditional near shore tuna farming zone and one maintained further offshore. SBT maintained offshore had...

2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Enfermagem, Programa de PósGraduação em Enfermagem, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. AbstrAct Objective: To know the production of theoretical approaches on issues related to offshore work and the work of offshore nurses. Method: Integrative literature review conducted in the databases of LILACS, BDENF, MEDLINE, SciELO and Index PSI. Results: We s...

This paper presents the modeling and simulation of offshore wind power platform for oil and gas companies. Wind energy has become the fastest growing renewable energy in the world and major gains in terms of energy generation are achievable when turbines are moved offshore. The objective of this project is to propose new design of an offshore wind power platform. Offshore wind turbine (OWT) is ...

Shift work is an integral part of many offshore jobs. While a considerable body of evidence exists concerning the impact of shift work in general, much less research has been directed specifically at the offshore workplace. This brief review attempts to highlight some of the work that has particular application to this environment, relating to physical health, psychosocial well-being and safety...