The Procedure of Calculating the Load Balance for an Offshore Drilling Unit

How did you get this job?

I think you should write a book on "How to get hired when you kow nothing about the job you want".

Just pretend it's a house.

Load Calculation - EERE - U.S. Department of Energy

submersible drilling rig: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary

There may be a Code governing this; if so, you need to follow it.

If load factor and use factor are already in your calculation, it seems that diversity would be redundant; but it depends on what any applicable Code says.

Your load calculation method should account for starting the largest motor while all other possible concurrent loads are also running. The key word is "concurrent."

I don't know about offshore stuff.

When I built equipment we had to supply enough power to provide the full FLA value for everything that could possible be starting, or running. _{(OK, I didn't build it, I was just a useless engineering manager)}

I've got one up on you. I have actually built such stuff (UL508 panels) with my own hands, in addition to being a useless engineering manager!

I did some work once. It wasn't for me. I finally learned that if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullsh*t.

Your talents are obvious, based on your responses here.

I have never liked electricity. I don't trust anything I can't see.

I'll do 120v receptacles and that's about it.

Useless Engineering Manager should be capitalized. In a Peter Principle world, it is obviously a bona fide job title.

I believe this Offshore Drilling Unit will be classified by one or more of the classification societies such as: American Bureau of Shipping, Lloyds Registry of Shipping, Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), etc. Please find out whose will be classifying and surveying the construction and then get their electrical design requirements.

I pray you are not working on an Offshore Drilling unit for the Arctic Ocean.