Introduction

This Offshore Structure Design, Construction & Maintenance training course will review the fundamentals behind all types of fixed offshore structures and in the case of fixed platforms, will cover applications of these principles. The overall objective is to provide participants with an understanding of the design, construction and risk based maintenance for offshore platforms, specifically, the theory and process of such design and the use of current applicable engineering methods in the design of fixed offshore platforms.

Course Objectives

• Offshore steel structure design overview
• Offshore structure platform
• The loads applied on offshore structure platform         
• The modern technique on the risk based inspection for maintenance plan for fleet platforms                              
• The steps of fabrication and construction and the ways to control these steps                              
• The assessment of the existing offshore structure platform                                                                
• Design of CP system

Target Audience

• Design Structural Engineers
• Supervision Engineer
• Planners
• Steel Fabricator
• Construction Engineers
• Project Engineers

Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction

• Introduction
• Principal of Project Management for Fixed Offshore Structure Platform
• Different Types of Fixed Offshore Structure
• Loads Effects on Fixed Offshore Structure
• Design Parameters Specifications                                                                                                
• Applied Load by ISO19002 and APIRP2A

Day 2: Steel Member Design

• General Design Considerations
• Basics Design of Fixed Offshore Platforms
• Offshore Site Investigation
• Wave Theories: Spectral Analysis Application
• Wind and Wave Forces, Computational Hydrodynamics
• Buoyancy and Stability
• Geotechnical Engineering for Offshore Structure

Day 3: Connection Design

• Offshore Piles Design Philosophy
• Basics of Earthquake and Seismic Analysis with API Approach 
• Fundamental Concepts and Case Studies for Laterally Loaded Piles
• Design of Pile Foundations for Axial Loading
• Concept of Design Steps by Computer Software as (SACS, SESAM, etc.)

Day 4: Steel Construction and Maintenance

• Pushover Analysis
• Pipeline Subsea Installation
• Design of Tubular Members
• Welding & Fatigue
• Topsides and Jacket Design
• Different Types of Jacket
• Basic Concepts of Dynamic Analysis
• Soil Dynamics & Mudslides
• Platform Construction

Day 5: Offshore Structure Integrity

• Structural Reliability
• Load Out Transportation & Installation
• Structure integrity principal
• Cathodic Protection Design and Anode Retrofit
• Risk Based Maintenance and ROV Inspection Technique