One of the largest movers of the world economy is the oil and gas industry. The industry
generates billions of barrels of oil to match more than half the world's energy demands …

Platform falling object collision on offshore pipelines are catastrophic to the environment and
economy. Based on finite element analysis and machine learning algorithms, a quantitative …

Reports indicated that impact events accounted for 47% of offshore pipeline failures, which
calls for impact detection and localization for subsea pipelines. In this paper, an innovative …

Pipeline damage from platform dropped objects is a significant risk for offshore installations.
Pipelines are usually buried to reduce the risk. Previous methodologies and standards …

Trench and burial, as a primary and effective protection measurement for offshore pipelines
from impact loads, has received much research attention recently. Previous studies were …

Impacts from falling objects can pose a major risk of failure for offshore pipelines.
Appropriate protection measures are required to reduce this risk. To achieve this goal, a risk …

Subsea pipelines transporting crude oil, liquified natural gas and carbon dioxide have been
installed offshore for the past decades. However, there are many situations where heavy …

Nowadays, the production of oil and gas has a major importance to the stability of the world's
energy supply. Almost 80 percent of the world's energy consumption comes from fossil fuels …

Dropped objects have constituted the great majority of potential and actual fatalities in
offshore drilling. Major oil and gas operators have reported that the dropped objects account …

Protection solutions for pipelines, umbilicals, and cables from accidentally dropped objects
are generally implemented with concrete mattresses, though concrete does not effectively …