This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to develop separate bias factors for evaluation of pile foundations of Gulf of Mexico offshore steel jackets based upon their performance during Hurricane Andrew. Some similarly limited studies will be performed for caisson structures. The purpose is to evaluate possible conservatism in the current American Petroleum Institute (API) RP2A foundation design recipe.
Provide a comprehensive and reliable database of environmental data in shallow water (as well as offshore) areas affected by Hurricane Andrew, through the implementation and application of advanced numerical wave and current hindcast models. The models to be adopted were previously applied and validated against historical Gulf of Mexico hurricanes. These were and carefully checked and recalibrated against available data acquired in Hurricane Andrew.
This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP) that used the results of Hurricane Andrew to evaluate engineering methods for predicting platform failure or survivability by comparing screening analysis and/or detailed failure analysis against actual field data (i.e. platforms that were exposed to Andrew and either survived, collapsed, or were damaged). In addition, the study will also examined the concept of a formal Offshore Platform Evaluation System as a management information system.
The goal of this project was to develop a reliability database that will increase the confidence in the methodology used to develop safety systems, thereby increase the safety of offshore developments. The basis of achieving the objectives of this work was to secure the support of operators associated with the Minerals Management Service to ease the gathering of data relating to the performance of safety and pollution control devices within the offshore environment.
This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to collect information gained from platform failures and survivals during Hurricane Andrew and develop a database for the future management of existing platforms. The Minerals Management Service, through its Platform Verification Program, is responsible for a wide variety of functions related to the strength and integrity of offshore platforms.
This was a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to describe the evolution and distribution of the surface wind field and wave field in the northern Gulf of Mexico during Hurricane Andrew in August 1992. The hindcast used public domain meteorological and oceanographic measured data and the Oceanweather's most accurate cyclone wind and wave hindcast methods. The narrative report includes a description of the data sources, storm evolution (track and intensity), hindcast method and a summary of results.
