Safety of dynamic positioning operations on mobile offshore drilling units

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1072-1090

  Chen, Haibo ^a   Moan, Torgeir ^b   Verhoeven, Harry ^c  

^a Scandpower Risk Management China Inc   (China)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Seadrill Deepwater units Pte Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Barrier; Dynamic positioning; Mobile offshore drilling units

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC POSITIONING; OIL WELLS; SAFETY FACTOR; STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY;

DRILLING OPERATIONS; MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING UNITS; NORWEGIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF (NCS); SAFETY MODELING;

OFFSHORE DRILLING;

EID: 39849088918     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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