DNV — RISK BASED VERIFICATION OF OFFSHORE STRUCTURES

The present DNV offshore service specification is considered a second-tier document within a suite of service specifications that have been developed and issued by this Class Society and covering the certification and verification services offered by DNV to the oil and gas industry. The scope of the present official document was to provide detailed description of the approached used by DNV class society to verification of the various structures involved in the oil an gas industry.

The paper also describes the major elements of such verification and shall also exemplify the type and extent of the involvement of verification. The document starts with the introduction and basic information on risk based verification and associated plan, followed by the service overview section, explaining the service process, initiation, realization and operation of the project, and the list of verification documents.

Apart from that, the document contains guidance on the selection of the verification levels for design and fabrication, provides example scopes of verification for certification, examples of verification documents, use of QMS, document forms and some other useful information. Falls under the DNV-OSS-300.