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Project Number 241
Date of Summary March 31, 1997
Subject Assessment of Tubular Steel Joints in Existing Offshore Structures
Performing Activity NIST, Building and Fire Research Laboratory
Principal Investigator Andrew W. Taylor
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP). The project objective to assess the current state-of-the-art and the future technological challenges, related to the evaluation of steel tubular joints in existing offshore structures. The results of this study include recommendations on actions the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the petroleum industry could take to develop reliable methods for requalifying existing offshore structures with tubular steel joints.
Progress Complete

Reports
AA (104 pages) PDF Report of a Workshop on Requalification of Tubular Steel Joints in Offshore Structures, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NISRIR 5877, Andrew W. Taylor, editor, Gaithersburg, Maryland, June 1996.

 

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