Arctic

Discussions with government agencies and oil companies in the United States, Canada and Norway have indicated their interest in conducting a research program involving a full-scale experimental oil release in the Arctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ). Primary interest appeared to be in evaluating alternative oil spill response options and in supplying data strengthened model simulations of oil-ice interactions.

Due to the aging condition of existing pipelines, a need exists to be aware of new managing techniques for pipeline integrity. The subject workshop will discuss such issues and provide a forum for the exchange of information. The Banff/01 Workshop, to be held in Banff, Canada, is the fifth in a series of workshops that Natural Resources Canada (NRC) has organized to address new pipeline technologies.

The aim of the symposium was to develop a better understanding of the ice deformation process and the role of ice movements in the atmosphere-ice- ocean-system. The major objective was to bring together the researchers who have made significant by various scales of the study of sea ice and those who have made contributions to the mechanics of sea ice and to establish a common understanding of the processes.

The workshop will continue the review of ice scour effects relevant to the safe design and operation of marine pipelines offshore, and to address the issues of damage control, oil spill cleanup and risk management. The first international workshop was held in February 1998. The Proceedings from that workshop are available from C-CORE. The general aim of this second workshop is to expand of the first event, exchange information through the review of progress and research since the last workshop and relate issues of pipeline burial, protection and damage control to current guidelines.

This study had several objectives. The main objective of this study is to conduct an extensive, non bias engineering and environmental assessment, considering both pro's and con's, of single versus double walled designs for offshore pipelines in an Arctic environment.

This is a JIP with 7 companies to assess risks associated with ice-seafloor interaction, relative to Arctic oil and gas facilities.

Due to the aging condition of existing pipelines, a need exists to be aware of new managing techniques for pipeline integrity. The subject workshop discussed such issues and provided a forum for the exchange of information.

This is a Cooperative Agreement. A workshop will be held as part of the Joint Symposium of the 13th International Okhotsk Sea and Sea Ice Symposium and Ice Scour and Arctic Marine Pipelines Workshop in Mombetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. The workshop will be held from February 1-5, 1998.

This is a continuation of the Pressure Ridge Ice Scour Experiment (PRISE), Project 191. The objective of this project is to confirm the magnitude and extent of sub-scour deformations in dilatant soil, through:

1) direct field observations;

2) physical model simulations;

3) numerical model simulations; and

4) development of an indigenous knowledge workshop.

This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP) with eight oil companies as participants. The objective was to conduct an international workshop on sea ice mechanics and ice modeling. The workshop focused on the current state of practice and future research needs relative to offshore oil and gas facilities. The workshop also reviewed the results of the Office of Naval Research Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative (SIMI). A significant amount of new Arctic field data and modeling results are now available as a result of the SIMI program.