Improved current profile criteria for deepwater riser design

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 307-311

  Jeans, Gus ^a   Grant, Colin ^b   Feld, Graham ^a  

^a Fugro Geoteam Limited   (United States)

^b Deepwater Upstream Technology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Current profile criteria; Deepwater; EOF; Extreme; Fatigue; Offshore engineering; Operability; Riser; VIV

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE ENGINEERING;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN STRUCTURES;

MARINE RISERS;

EID: 0036441701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2002-28153     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Jeans, G., and Feld, G., 2001, "A Method for Deriving Extreme Current Profiles to Support Design of Deep Water Drilling Risers", Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE01/OFT-1181, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2. Forristall, G.Z., and Cooper, K.C., 1997, "Design Profiles Using Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) and Inverse FORM Methods," Proceedings of the 29th Annual Offshore Technology Conference, OTC 8267, Houston.