Ship-shaped offshore installations : design, building, and operation / Jeom Kee Paik, Anil Kumar Thayamballi.
Ship-shaped offshore units are some of the more economical systems for the development of offshore oil and gas, and are often preferred in marginal fields. These systems are especially attractive to develop oil and gas fields in deep and ultra-deep water areas and remote locations away from existing...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; How to Use This Book; CHAPTER 1 Overview of Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations; CHAPTER 2 Front-End Engineering; CHAPTER 3 Design Principles, Criteria, and Regulations; CHAPTER 4 Environmental Phenomena and Application to Design; CHAPTER 5 Serviceability Limit-State Design; CHAPTER 6 Ultimate Limit-State Design; CHAPTER 7 Fatigue Limit-State Design; CHAPTER 8 Accidental Limit-State Design; CHAPTER 9 Topsides, Mooring, and Export Facilities Design; CHAPTER 10 Corrosion Assessment and Management
- CHAPTER 11 Inspection and MaintenanceCHAPTER 12 Tanker Conversion and Decommissioning; CHAPTER 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