Marine & Offshore 
Services

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore brings together classification authority and practical assurance solutions to help maritime stakeholders operate safely, sustainably, and with full regulatory confidence. Our classification services are tailored towards a rapidly evolving industry. Our approach to ship classification includes an evolving range of dedicated notations that keep pace with technology and the latest requirements for classification.   

Bureau Veritas prides itself on being: 

By your side: as a partner in Classification, with a global network of surveyors ready to provide your organisation with the support it needs anytime and anywhere. 

Pioneers in safety and performance: our continuous and collaborative R&D approach, regulatory knowledge and client proximity enable us to offer valuable insights to help the industry move forward.  

Flexible without compromise: At Bureau Veritas, safety is an absolute requirement. From helping you achieve compliance with existing regulations or developing new technologies, we will never compromise on safety. 

Whether it’s a new build, or in service vessel seeking class transfer, our extensive global network of marine surveyors is ideally positioned to support your ship classification needs.

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Pacific has extensive experience operating in strategic partnership with a sovereign state to design, develop and implement end-to-end solutions for Sovereign Naval Class Rules, and Sovereign Naval Seaworthiness Regulations. Through integrated leadership, partnership, and technical expertise, Bureau Veritas provides a capability to support the sovereign state in building and maintaining its own world leading certification, regulation, and seaworthiness framework.     

Bureau Veritas’ approach to the design, development and implementation of Sovereign Naval Class Rules and Seaworthiness Regulations is guided by two key sets of principles: 

Design Principles - Our approach ensures that the rules and frameworks implemented by government and defence are: 

          •  As International as possible and as National as necessary;  
             and 
          •  As Civilian as possible and as Military as necessary. 

Outcome Principles - Our rule sets ensure that maritime assets are: 

           •  Safe to Operate – attaining and maintaining class, against sovereign naval class rules, provides the assurance that naval and government vessels are safe to operate, 
              and
          •  Operated Safely – a structured authorisation of operations that provides the assurance that the naval vessel is operated safely.

IFor almost a decade, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Pacific has partnered with the Australian Defence Force to support the establishment of the Australian Naval Classification Authority and Australian Naval Seaworthiness Regulator, as well as the design and implementation of Sovereign Naval Class Rules, and Sovereign Naval Seaworthiness Regulations. 

Today, as a Sovereign Industry Partner to the Commonwealth of Australia, our staff are integrated with Defence to support the implementation of the entire Australian Naval Seaworthiness Program. 

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Located in Australia, with extensive experience across the Pacific region, and a centre of excellence in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore is ideally positioned as a partner to the offshore oil and gas sector. Our digitised asset management solutions help extend the life of assets, infrastructure, and optimising value for money across the life of your investment. Specialising in classification, certification, validation, and verification, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Pacific is here to support you to identify and reduce risks and improve performance across the offshore energy sector.  

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In addition to our support to the offshore oil and gas sector, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Pacific are available to provide dedicated technical advisory solutions to industry and government. Our deep expertise offers the assurance needed to assist government and industry proponents in decision making, enhancing safety, delivering efficiency, and sustainability.  

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Our experts combine years of maritime and regulatory experience to support the needs of our clients. As an independent assurance partner, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore is ideally positioned to support Government organisations, and the commercial sector, in providing the assurance necessary for safe, secure, and environmentally friendly operations. Our team of experts is here to support the sector in keeping pace with a constantly changing regulatory landscape, decarbonisation, and getting the most out of your assets in the field.  

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Pacific is ideally placed to support Australia’s maritime sector and the wider Pacific region in design, build, classification, certification and assurance of emerging, novel, and autonomous maritime technologies. Our deep global expertise, collaborative approach, and flexibility without compromise ensures that our solutions are fit for purpose and tailored to meet clients' operational and safety needs.  

Here in Australia, and increasingly within Australia’s Domestic Commercial Vessel industry, we offer a variety of options for the approval in principle, technology qualification, plan approval, survey and classification of novel and emerging technologies. Whether its electrification, automation, alternate fuels, or novel technology design, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Pacific can provide a solution. 

Our focus areas include: 

• Ships and Vessels – Emerging and novel technologies, automation, technology qualification, approval in principle, and design review. Whether it’s autonomous, uncrewed, electrified, or hydro foiling, our team can support you in navigating the regulatory pathways for survey, certification and compliance with the latest regulatory requirements. 
• Marine Renewable Energy - Wave generators, floating solar farms, floating nuclear power plants, and ocean energy generators. 
• Equipment and Technologies - Reduction systems, treatment systems, fuel gas supply systems, cargo containment, hull cleaning, fuel efficiency, automation, LNG fueled equipment, hydrogen power systems. 
• Digitalisation - Our global network of experts provide assurance in cyber-resilience through to alignment with fully autonomous ship frameworks.

Our Methodologies:

Risk-Based Qualification of New Technology  - Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore offers guidelines for Technology Qualification Assessment (NI525) using a risk-based approach. Leveraging a range of qualification processes, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore identifies failure modes for the technology and ensures the associated risks are reduced to an acceptable level; proving the technology can reach a high level of confidence.

Approvals in Principle - At Bureau Veritas, we pride ourselves on our collaborative approach, being flexible to the needs of industry without compromise on safety and navigating the complexities of today’s regulatory landscape. Bureau Veritas offers a range of options when it comes to emerging technology, automation, remote operation, and novel vessels. With the ability of access deep expertise globally, our  Approvals in Principle (AiPs) processes are designed to support niche sectors of industry launching, developing, and introducing into service new technologies.  

Product certification and type approval - Bureau Veritas Product/ Type Approval processes provide verification and assurance that marine products and systems comply with applicable rules, standards and regulatory requirements before installation. Approved products are listed in our Approval Explorer database, providing global recognition and delivering benefits such as broader market access, reduced future design review requirements, and increased confidence among shipbuilders, vessel operators, regulators and classification societies.

Survey – Following qualification or approval of the technology, Bureau Veritas also provides classification and survey of the vessel and its technology, as well as technical and regulatory advisory services to assist ship builders, owners, and operators with navigating the complexities of national rules and regulations. We survey vessels to BV’s Class Rules, or alternate standards and regulatory frameworks Australia’s Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012, Marine Orders, and National Standards for Commercial Vessels.

With deep knowledge and understanding of regulatory frameworks in the Pacific region, our staff can assist in navigating the challenges of domestic and international regulatory frameworks, international obligations, applicable rules, and regulations. 

Future Shipping Team - The Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore Future Shipping Team specialise in advancing sustainability, building trust in emerging technology, and supporting clients who want to challenge the status quo and make future-proof choices on sustainability, technology and innovation.  

The Future Shipping Team brings global expertise to your project, leveraging BV’s experience across some of the world’s most innovative projects. From concept creation, through design, and qualification; the Future Shipping Team is here to support the ultimate goal of getting your technology on the water, operating safely, sooner.  

For more information on our future shipping team, and our R&D projects underway, see: 
→  Bureau Veritas’ Future Shipping Team
→ Research & Development | Marine & Offshore

As a trusted business to business to society partner, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Pacific offers a wide comprehensive range of technical advisory services to assist our clients with managing risk, decision making, enhancing safety, efficiency and sustainability. We specialise in the provision of 3^rd party, independent, deep subject matter knowledge and expertise to help you reduce risk, make decisions, and find solutions. 

These services include: 

• Sustainable Solutions | Marine & Offshore  
• Engineering solutions 
• Risk mitigation solutions 
• Marine assurance solutions 
• Regulatory solutions 
• Asset management 
• Life extension studies 

Bureau Verita Marine & Offshore’s advisory services are tailored to suit the needs of our clients.