JPT

 

Vol. 59 No. 2

February 2007

Offshore Facilities: Construction and Design

Hurricane Ivan provided an opportunity to evaluate the American Petroleum Inst. (API) RP 2A design process for fixed platforms to ensure that it provides for well-designed structures. Specific findings and trends are reported related to global platform performance as well as component performance. A quantitative assessment to determine the adequacy of the API RP 2A design process uses a probability-based process that compares analytically predicted platform damage and survival to that actually ob-served after Ivan.

View a synopsis of OTC 18325 published in JPT

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper OTC 18325, "Assessment of Fixed-Offshore-Platform Performance in Hurricane Ivan," by F.J. Puskar, R.E. Spong, and A. Ku, Energo Engineering, and R.B. Gilbert and Y.J. Choi, U. of Texas at Austin, prepared for the 2006 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 1-4 May.

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