... received July 8, 2013; published online September 4, 2013. Assoc. Editor: Dong S. Jeng. 26 09 2012 08 07 2013 Mooring dolphin platforms (MDPs) with three caisson foundations were installed in the ice-drifting Bohai Sea of China. Before installation, prototype tests of penetration...

...., plastic pipe or flexible pipe) into an existing pipeline. The pipe-in-pipe approach may be applicable to the reconstruction of an existing pipeline, where the existing pipe is used as protective casing and the inserted new pipe is used to contain corrosive petrochemicals. The new pipe is installed...

... JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME OOAE Division, March 2000; final revision, November 2001. Associate Editor: T. Jones. 01 March 2000 01 November 2001 01 08 2002 marine systems engineering engineering facilities installation...

... for in the analysis. A set of interaction equations is proposed. Load effects in the pipelines during installation by the S-lay method are studied. The effects of uncertainties in yield stress, mass, stiffness of the stinger, response amplitude operator and peak period for the wave spectrum were accounted...

... of crack observations as a function of installation year. Also, the number of fatigue cracks is given as a function of the experts belief in whether the crack is propagating or not. Overview of inspection data 1 Observations of new...

... received November 11, 1999. Associate Technical Editor: R. G. Bea. 05 July 1998 15 July 1999 11 November 1999 oil technology natural gas technology inspection maintenance engineering installation First attempts of oil offshore exploitation in Mexico...

...J. Wang; O. Kieran The offshore installations (safety case) regulations were developed in the UK in 1992 and came into force in 1993 in response to the accepted findings of the Piper Alpha enquiry. Recently, “the offshore installations and wells (design and construction, etc.) regulations” (DCR...