 Nowadays, we may all witness the constantly increasing need for the construction of the new engineering structures in the region of Arctic seas. Subject requirement has actually been generated by the rapidly developing offshore oil and gas industry, taking into consideration that substantial reserves of the hydrocarbons are known and confirmed to be there.
Structures designed to work in the Arctic region should be capable of withstanding all severe environmental forces commonly generated by the sea ice - note that this subject is still quite far from being completely understood. The underwater pipelines should be safe against the strudel scour and ice gouging; moreover, they should be build in a safe manner and economically. In addition to that, we have to understand and take into account such important factors as the human environment and social factors plus some others.
The present volume is taking a broad view and accounts for the interactions that occur between different factors involved. Numerous case studies of the actual projects in the Arctic region are illustrating the main content of the work.
 The knowledge of terminology is one of the key points of the professional behaviour of any specialist, and the offshore exploration/production industry is not an exception from this rule. This is the new and completely revised release of the Dictionary. A truly must have book for every worker of the offshore industry.
It does not actually matter what exactly you do - are you the offshore worker involved in the actual drilling operation, or supplier providing the offshore facility with what they need, or the office worker - this publication will be of great use for everyone.
The articles of the present dictionary have been arranged in several chapters addressing such the important topics as rotary drilling rig parts, drillstem test symbols, cable tool drilling rig parts, etc. In addition the above, some useful information is provided on the petroleum related organizations, atomic weights and numbers, abbreviations.
We would definitely say that this dictionary will be of great practical use for all people involved in the offshore engineering activities as it will provide them all with the required knowledge of the terminology enabling them to perform their day-to-day activities ina safe and effective manner.
 The idea to compile the publication containing the comprehensive review of all technologies that are currently available for developing the marginal offshore fields, appeared out from the original report commissioned with the ultimate intention to undertake for the IDE, standing for the Irish Dept of Energy. This Department looked for the technical information covering all available options for developing of the relatively small accumulations of oil in the Irish area, plus the available systems, and new technical developments considered likely to get implemented in the following decades plus the approximate developing costs.
The authors of this report discovered that there was no any other publication directly addressing those topics comprehensively; the content of this report is therefore aimed to give required coverage in a manner that would be intelligible to general reader. Since it's not possible to fully cover all design aspects of all systems in a single volume thus the authors have provided some references for the persons wishing to get deeper insight in particular areas. The document is covering the elements of the development scheme, existing technology for the development, costs/economics of the marginal fields, and other issues.
 The inspections of the subsea pipelines and the associated maintenance and repairs are very costly for the pipeline and petroleum engineers and that is the reason why they required proper technical training focusing on provision of the strength and integrity of the systems. This volume shall be considered a really perfect companion for all new engineers willing to be kept aware of the modern techniques.
The publication is offering its readers a ready problem-solving approach to the detection of leaks, integrity management, together with the reliability applications, including the risk analysis. The volume is a very broad-ranging and easy in use, with its content being packed with numerous informative data tables, calculations and images focusing on the corrosion of the pipelines, subsea repairs and flexible piping.
As a result, this volume will provide engineers with all required technical knowledge and power so that they can protect the offshore pipeline investments in a safe and effective manner. The material relating to the line pipe selection in also included, particularly the selection of the steel lines. The publication also covers the assessment of different types of corrosion processes and provides the process and flow assurance for the offshore subsea pipeline systems. An absolutely necessary and very useful title for all people engaged in offshore subsea engineering.
 An informative source for every piling engineer, with the content updated with all important and recent developments if the field. The piling is considered a rapidly moving field of engineering and the recent decade has shown significant technical advances in the theoretical methods of piling plus in the equipment utilized and testing procedures to be followed.
Some of the above mentioned changes were driven as required by the efficiency and economy needs, reduced spoil production as well as the newly introduced methods of the piling bore supports. Here is the third edition of the perfectly established title. The document has been specifically prepared and released to provide the industry pro's and general readers with the easily accessible and nicely illustrated technical account of the important design matters, methods commonly used for the analysis and testing of the piling arrangements focusing on the practical issues and design methods incorporating the latest achievements.
It is intended to serve as a practical reference book by the geotechnical engineers and all other people involved in piling engineering. The book starts with the introduction followed by the chapters dealing with the site investigation, design of piles and their groups, basic methods, retaining walls, pile and integrity testing, choice of the proper methods and potential problems etc.
 The content of this perfect and remarkably useful handbook has originally been compiled with the ultimate intention of the author to provide the readers having the interest in the hydrocarbon production industry with a comprehensive but easily accessible technical overview of the main processes involves and equipments used within the industry, The publication contains clear explanations of the discovery and extraction of the oil and gas today.
A huge number of the images and drawings, data charts and graphs included by the author are bringing quite technical topic of production of oil and gas to life and make it much easier for the readers to understand. The volume is providing a valuable overview of the pipelines. The content will be appreciated by the people willing to familiarize themselves with the basics of the oil production as it is covering literally all important aspects, addressing oil production both offshore and on land.
The book has been written in a very simple language and may definitely serve as a quick reference book or for the self-study. Again, it will definitely meet all needs of the persons looking for the basic information on oil production since the way of explanation used by the author will let the content be easily understood even by the newcomers to the industry. The professionals, in turn, may use this volume to refresh their knowledge.
 The content of this nice training presentation has been specifically designed to provide all novices in the industry with some basic technical knowledge covering the main features and functions of the vessels commonly participating in the offshore exploration, extraction and production of oil and gas. Any type of the offshore structure, mobile drilling/production unit or vessel can actually been divided into freely floating objects and ones fixed to the seabed.
All offshore units can usually be fixed to the seafloor by foundations, jack-up legs, anchors. The freely floating units hold their desired position by either manual handling or dynamic positioning systems. The presentation starts with the part dealing with the drilling units - subject facilities are divided into three major types, i.e. jack-ups, semi-submersibles/submersibles and drillships. Jack-up rigs are able to stand still on the seafloor, resting on a number of the supporting legs.
When the legs of the jack-up rigs are not deployed, these rigs may float and this technical feature makes the MODUs of this type suitable for easy transportation from one drilling location to another. Jack-ups commonly provide a very stable platforms for the drilling purposes; however, they can only be installed in relatively shallow water depths...
 The content of this nice textbook presents the successful attempt of its authors to provide all offshore engineers with the comprehensive treatment of the hydromechanics. The text of the volume has initially been prepared for the students who participate in the offshore technology curriculum of the Delft Technological University. The topics covered by the author were selected on the basis of their applicability in the contemporary offshore engineering.
The treatment applied by the author is including the background theoretical information together with the main application to the real life problems. The text of the volume is encompassing the applied hydromechanics for the open sea. We can say that the volume is built on the basis of the information on waves, wind and currents in order for the external forces acting on the different offshore structures, as well as the motions and stability of subject structures to be determined.
The author of the course has made every attempt to keep the notations used in the text standard. The book starts with the introduction providing the definition of the motions and problems of interest covered in the book. The main portion of the document consists of several chapters addressing the hydrostatics, phenomena of the constant potential/real flows, ocean surface waves, dynamics of the rigid body, potential coefficients, seabed boundary effects, survival loads on the tower-type offshore structure, wave forces acting on the slender cylindrical structures, operability and station keeping, etc.
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