Method for Assessing the Environmental Impact on the Duration of the Safe Operation of Offshore Stationary Platforms (MSP) for the Extraction of Oil, Gas and Other Resources on the Shelf

Abstract

Abstract The article explores the problems of assessing environmental impacts on the duration of the operation of offshore oil and gas facilities. The methods used in the domestic and foreign regulatory frameworks to assess the duration of operation of offshore oil and gas facilities are analyzed. It is noted that the issues of the influence of loads causing alternating stress have been given significant attention, however, the issues of the “influence”, which also create various alternating stress, have not been sufficiently taken into account. Currently, with respect to offshore oil and gas facilities, there is no methodology that would make it possible to objectively describe both the nature of these impacts and provide numerical and analytical dependences of the impact of these effects on the duration of operation of offshore oil and gas facilities. The task is to systematize the effects that affect the duration of the operation of offshore oil and gas facilities, and to develop a mathematical apparatus that allows you to determine the specific numerical values of the variable stresses caused by these effects.