... of Mexico, where environmental conditions are considered severe. The petroleum industry has challenged its own records in ultradeep water offshore exploration. This scenario favors technological innovations in the search for new concepts for offshore units, such as the monocolumn platform...

... (structures) design engineering gas industry numerical analysis offshore installations petroleum industry safety storage structural engineering supports floating production storage offshore systems (FPSOs) hull girder ultimate strength Smith’s method idealized structural unit method (ISUM...

... on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 2008, Estoril, Portugal. floating unit design monocolumn platform hydrodynamic behavior hydrodynamic appendages model tests dynamic response fuel storage hydrocarbon reservoirs offshore installations oil drilling petroleum industry plates...

... elasticity finite element analysis friction gas industry offshore installations petroleum industry pneumatic systems Many platforms have been designed and installed in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) since the offshore oil and gas industry began in 1940s. The development of the offshore petroleum...

... by comparison with those of the analytical model of an identical structure. The close agreement gives confidence in both approaches. 20 03 2008 11 07 2008 26 03 2009 finite element analysis flexible structures petroleum industry unbonded flexible riser cyclic loading stick-slip...

... complex system. 06 12 2005 19 01 2007 24 03 2009 offshore installations petroleum industry ships 1 In Fig. 1 , we show the offloading of stored oil from a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to a shuttle tanker. An early account of the design and field...

... engineering offshore installations beams (structures) foundations elasticity vibrations bending petroleum industry gas industry offshore pipeline dynamic response seabed excitation of seabed conveyance velocity of internal fluid The challenge of additional sources to meet the energy...

..., September 2002. Associate Editor: S. Chakrabarti. 01 April 2002 01 September 2002 01 10 2003 petroleum industry mechanical engineering ocean waves flexible structures fatigue vibrations It has been recognized within the oil and gas industry that the traditional method...

... received July 2001; final revision May 2002. Associate Editor: D. Morrison. 01 July 2001 01 May 2002 11 07 2003 fluid dynamics petroleum industry flexible structures deformation load distribution mechanical engineering As the need to develop deep-water reservoirs...

... structural engineering petroleum industry force bending shear deformation In evaluating the storm overload reliability of offshore platforms, it is essential to be able to quantify and understand the variability of the environmental load. For platforms where wave loading dominates...

... November 1999 structural engineering standards oil technology petroleum industry design engineering calibration steel For several decades a large number of offshore platforms were designed to the guidelines in the RP 2A published by the American Petroleum Institute 1...