This study addresses the planning procedures for installation of mooring systems that support floating offshore wind turbines in a farm. It considers logistics process and discusses important role weather windows those operations at preliminary stage project. The case is based on farm array 47 Telwind turbine platforms, to be located Lannion (France), with potential 470 MW. includes transport r...

Offshore structures exist in a variety of forms, and they are used for functions varied sea depths. These tailored certain environments Different actions suitable equipment selection, platform type design, drilling/production processes required the applications these offshore structures, as given Part I. This paper is second part, which outlines various processes, loads, design approaches proje...

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Recent years, offshore outsourcing has received large amount of attention from both industry and academia because of its attractive advantages such as cost reduction, talent access. As an alternative way to implement information systems in operation management, offshore insourcing has been greatly overlooked. Though organizations shun from the contractual obligations in offshore insourcing, the...

Concerns over reducing CO2 emissions associated with the burning of fossil fuels in combination with an increase in worldwide energy demands is leading to increased development of renewable energies such as wind. The installation of offshore wind power structures (OWS) is one of the most promising approaches for the production of renewable energy. However, corrosion and fatigue damage in marine...

INTRODUCTION Focusing on people and organizations, this paper aims to contribute to offshore safety assessment by proposing a methodology to model causal relationships. METHOD The methodology is proposed in a general sense that it will be capable of accommodating modeling of multiple risk factors considered in offshore operations and will have the ability to deal with different types of data ...

The current offshore oil & gas multi-phase production and transportation installations have big challenges related with the slugging flow: An unstable multi-phase flow regime where the flow rates, pressures and temperatures oscillate in the considered processes. Slug can be caused by different operating conditions and installation structures. The most severe slugs are often induced in long vert...

AIMS To explore the relation between psychosocial factors and musculoskeletal pain in Chinese offshore oil installation workers. METHODS Half of all offshore workers (being a representative sample) in a Chinese oil company were invited to complete a self-administered questionnaire providing information on sociodemographic characteristics, occupational stressors, type A behaviour, social suppo...

A temperature profile 2400 m along the off-shore active caldera of Campi Flegrei (Gulf of Pozzuoli) was obtained by the installation of a permanent fiber-optic monitoring system within the framework of the Innovative Monitoring for Coastal and Marine Environment (MON.I.C.A) project. The system consists of a submerged, reinforced, multi-fiber cable containing six single-mode telecom grade optica...

Supply vessel planning problem arises in the upstream offshore oil and gas logistics, where supply vessels are the most expensive logistics resource. A fleet of supply vessels provides delivery of necessary materials and equipment to a set of offshore installations on a periodic basis from an onshore supply base. The problem itself involves scheduling, routing and packing decisions. The objecti...