Offshore operators must grapple with ways to keep aging floating facilities on station beyond their original design life. DeepStar is an operator-funded research-and-development joint-industry consortium that includes members of the oil community such as oil and gas companies, vendors, regulators, and academic and research institutes working in multidisciplinary technology areas. The complete paper highlights successes of the consortium in the realm of continuous service.
Mooring-Integrity Management (MIM)
Moorings on floating production systems (FPSs) are safety-critical systems, but recent research indicates that there is an imbalance between the critical nature of mooring systems and the attention that they receive. Although they are meticulously engineered against a considerable array of known factors that could accelerate standard wear and tear, there have been numerous underlying causes of mooring-system failures historically.
