The offshore oil industry is an important industry employing a huge number of employees, involving a huge amount of money, having a huge influence on national and international economies, and thereby representing a huge political impact and influence. Despite being a huge industry, it has many characteristics of a small family. The number of operators, service-companies, and contractors is rela...

Written by a group of international experts in their field, this Theme Issue provides an overview of the recent advances made by the fluid mechanics community dedicated to offshore engineering, with a specific focus into modelling issues. Although of great importance we have purposely neglected all applications related to ‘emerging offshore engineering’ concerned with renewable energy extractio...

Taiwan is located on the Pacific seismic belt, and the soil conditions of Taiwan’s offshore wind farms are softer than those in Europe. To ensure safety and stability of the offshore wind turbine supporting structures, it is important to assess the offshore wind farms seismic forces reasonably. In this paper, the relevant seismic and geological data are obtained for Chang-Bin offshore wind farm...

Nowadays, Offshore Information Systems (IS) Outsourcing is developing tremendously, despite glutting with unsuccessful and disappointing projects. In order to implement offshore IS outsourcing projects successfully, it requires all the parties involved to not only attempt to cross the boundaries of different countries or organizations, but also confront the consequent challenges brought by inte...

It is meaningful to investigate the know-how of experienced project managers on the side of vendors about the risk in offshore software outsourcing. A survey is conducted to find out the main risk factors from the vendor's viewpoint. The questions asked include background information of vendor and respondent, suggestions to the client, and evaluations on experienced offshore projects. In all, 1...

Information Technology (IT) offshore outsourcing is a non-reversible trend due to its cost implications, and as a result, target of much inquiry in different areas of knowledge. We propose to focus research efforts on a smaller niche within that larger set of questions: those organizations involved with offshore insourcing, where companies create their own software development centers for inter...

Offshore sourcing is the latest trend unfolding where companies look for cheaper offshore resource options to reduce their baseline costs. This involves the retrenchment of more expensive onshore resources, to be replaced by the hiring of cheaper offshore resources. A key activity is the transfer of knowledge from the onshore resource to the offshore resource. This paper looks at the key activi...

This paper reveals that logistics make up at least 17% of annual operational expenditure costs for offshore wind farms. Annual operational expenditure is found to vary by a factor of 9.5, making its share of levelized cost of energy for offshore wind range from 13% to 57%. These are key findings of a 20-month research project targeting cost reduction initiatives for offshore wind systems. The f...

The sourcing of projects from high-cost (onshore) to lower-cost (offshore) countries requires overcoming challenges broadly classified as coordination issues and status differences. Increasingly, onshore firms are turning to immigrants from offshore destinations, assuming they will enable effective collaboration by leveraging their bicultural backgrounds. We investigate the role of onshore immi...

In the context of considerable focus upon offshore safety, relatively little attention has been paid to the experiences of offshore workers themselves. This paper begins with a discussion of the origins, nature, and likely consequences of UKOOA’s ‘Cost Reductions in a New Era’ initiative, which addresses itself directly to questions of culture and cost reductions in the sector. We then note cha...