Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use This Book
- 1 Overview of Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- 2 Front-End Engineering
- 3 Design Principles, Criteria, and Regulations
- 4 Environmental Phenomena and Application to Design
- 5 Serviceability Limit-State Design
- 6 Ultimate Limit-State Design
- 7 Fatigue Limit-State Design
- 8 Accidental Limit-State Design
- 9 Topsides, Mooring, and Export Facilities Design
- 10 Corrosion Assessment and Management
- 11 Inspection and Maintenance
- 12 Tanker Conversion and Decommissioning
- 13 Risk Assessment and Management
- Appendix 1 Terms and Definitions
- Appendix 2 Scale Definitions of Winds, Waves, and Swells
- Appendix 3 Probability of Sea States at Various Ocean Regions
- Appendix 4 Scaling Laws for Physical Model Testing
- Appendix 5 Wind-Tunnel Test Requirements
- Appendix 6 List of Selected Industry Standards
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use This Book
- 1 Overview of Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- 2 Front-End Engineering
- 3 Design Principles, Criteria, and Regulations
- 4 Environmental Phenomena and Application to Design
- 5 Serviceability Limit-State Design
- 6 Ultimate Limit-State Design
- 7 Fatigue Limit-State Design
- 8 Accidental Limit-State Design
- 9 Topsides, Mooring, and Export Facilities Design
- 10 Corrosion Assessment and Management
- 11 Inspection and Maintenance
- 12 Tanker Conversion and Decommissioning
- 13 Risk Assessment and Management
- Appendix 1 Terms and Definitions
- Appendix 2 Scale Definitions of Winds, Waves, and Swells
- Appendix 3 Probability of Sea States at Various Ocean Regions
- Appendix 4 Scaling Laws for Physical Model Testing
- Appendix 5 Wind-Tunnel Test Requirements
- Appendix 6 List of Selected Industry Standards
- Index
Summary
Today, the need for development of offshore oil and gas resources in increasingly deeper waters is becoming more important because of many reasons associated with the world economy and the related energy resource development constraints and strategies.
Fixed-type offshore platforms, which have been useful for oil and gas developments in relatively shallow waters, are now much less feasible as we move further in developing oil and gas fields in deep- and ultradeep-water areas, now reaching more than 1,000m water depth. Floating-type offshore structures have to be increasingly considered to develop these deep-water areas. In addition to ship-shaped offshore units, at least three other types of floating production systems – semisubmersibles, spars, and tension leg platforms (TLP) – are also available today for that purpose. All of these types of floating systems require storage, pipeline infrastructure, and other associated field structures and systems to transport produced oil and gas to the facilities on shore, but perhaps to varying degrees.
That the use of ship-shaped offshore units remains a very attractive alternative in many cases of field development is attributable to its ability to successfully serve multiple functions, such as production, storage, and offloading, and the capability for oil or gas to be transported to shore via shuttle tankers. Ship-shaped offshore units reduce need for pipeline infrastructure and are functional on a fast-track basis.
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- Ship-Shaped Offshore InstallationsDesign, Building, and Operation, pp. xv - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007