Environmental Exposure and Design Criteria for Offshore Oil and Gas Structures

Abstract

One of the tasks of the Committee on Offshore Energy Technology was to review the availability of engineering field data, methods, and procedures for adequately describing and interpreting the environmental conditions that go into criteria for the design, verification, and inspection of offshore oil and gas structures. Accordingly, the committee examined how industry obtains environmental data, how it uses the data to evaluate environmental exposures, and how it uses environmental exposures to establish criteria to design, build, install, and operate offshore platforms. The committee examined all three phases of developing offshore petroleum reserves: pre-lease, exploration, and production. The purpose was to find where and what types of data were needed by government and industry. This report represents the work and findings of the committee. Section I presents the committee's recommendations and conclusions and the technical analysis upon which these are based. Section II consists of background papers that lay out in greater detail the concepts and technical analysis developed in this report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA094651

Entities

Organizations

  • National Research Council

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Engineers
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Meteorology
  • Oceanography
  • Ridges
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Sea Water
  • Storm Surges
  • Test Methods
  • Topography

Readers

  • Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design