Affiliation:
1. The Maureen platform refloat and decommissioning project manager for ConocoPhillips
2. Maureen platform refloat and decommissioning project structural engineer for ConocoPhillips
Abstract
The now decommissioned Maureen oil field in the UK sector of the North Sea was home to the world's largest steel gravity platform. The giant 110 000 t steel structure delivered over 200 million barrels in two decades but was finally removed and towed ashore last summer. This paper describes the technical challenges of hydraulically jacking the massive triple-tank platform out of the seabed and controlling its rise to the surface, 95 m above.
Subject
Civil and Structural Engineering
Reference5 articles.
1. The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic (the OSPAR Convention)March 1998 Lisbon.
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