Sea ice is the most severe environmental factor in the Arctic. The
hazards it creates are potentially greater than the hazards faced in
open-ocean operations. Such hazards range from the forces that moving sea
ice exerts against offshore structures to the gouging of the seafloor (a
factor to be considered in the placement of pipelines). Engineering data for
these hazards is important as operations move from exploration to production
and as structures are considered for deeper water. The MMS is participating
in opportunities to gain safety-related information in advance of future
operations in the Arctic. Engineering properties and forces of moving ice on
structures and pipelines are being studied.
Arctic Safety Projects Including Ice
Mechanics |
016 |
Technology Assessment for Outer
Continental Shelf, Oil and Gas Operations in the Arctic Ocean |
037 |
Structural Materials
for Arctic Operations |
040 |
Mechanical
Properties of Sea Ice |
042 |
Arctic Underwater
Structure Inspection |
043 |
Ice Forces Against
Arctic Offshore Structures |
050 |
Development and
Testing of an Ice Sensor |
051 |
Engineering
Properties of Subsea Permafrost |
053 |
Behavior of Concrete
Offshore Structures in Cold Regions |
056 |
Assessment of
Structural Icing |
061 |
Superstructure Icing
Data Collection and Analysis |
065 |
De-icing and
Prevention of Ice Formation on Offshore Drilling Platforms |
069 |
Reliability of
Gravel Mat Foundations for Arctic Gravity Structures |
077 |
Ice Stress
Measurements |
079 |
Offshore Pipeline
Transportation Study for Lease Sale 87 |
083 |
Numerical Modeling
of Ice-Structure Interaction |
087 |
Mechanical
Properties of Saline Ice |
089 |
Wave Erosion of a
Frozen Berm |
090 |
Evaluation of Short,
Large-Diameter Piles for Arctic Applications |
095 |
Structural Icing
Study, St. George Basin |
096 |
Probability Based
Design Criteria for Ice Loads on Fixed Structures in the Beaufort Sea |
097 |
Engineering
Properties of Multi-year Ridge Sea Ice |
098 |
Punching Shear
Resistance of Concrete Offshore Structures for the Arctic |
099 |
Measurement of Ice
Stress Around a Caisson Retained Island in the Beaufort Sea |
100 |
Feasibility of
Production, Loading and Storage Systems for the North Aleutian Basin |
105 |
Chukchi Sea
Transportation Cost Comparison Study |
110 |
Response to Spray
Ice Structures to Ice, Atmospheric, and Oceanographic Forces |
116 |
Impact of Annual Ice
with a Cable-Moored Platform |
121 |
Water Jet Barrier
Containment of Oil in the Presence of Broken Ice |
123 |
Molikpaq Ice Force
Measurement Program |
134 |
Impact of Crushed
Ice on the Ice-Structure Interaction for Arctic Platforms |
141 |
Nipterk Spray Ice
Island-Summer Protection Experiment |
164 |
Chukchi Sea
Transportation Update Study |
178 |
Large-scale Ice
Fracture Experiments |
181 |
Assessment of Spray
Ice Technology |
191 |
Pressure Ridge Ice
Scour Experiment (PRISE) |
196 |
Sea Ice Scaling
Effects |
219 |
Application of an
Engineering Model for Ice/Soil/Pipeline Interaction |
231 |
Sea Ice Mechanics
Workshop |
271 |
Safety and Integrity
of Arctic Marine Pipelines |
293 |
Scour and Arctic
Marine Pipeline Workshop |
320 |
Risk Assessment for
Ice Damage to Seabed Facilities |
332 |
An Engineering
Assessment of Double Wall Versus Single Wall Designs for Offshore Pipelines
in an Arctic Environment |
334 |
Ice Scour & Arctic
Marine Pipeline Workshop |
385 |
IUTAM Symposium:
Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics |
465 |
22nd International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic
Engineering Conference (OMME) |
468 |
Construction and Maintenance of Ice Islands:
Current practice & future research. |
538 |
Measurement and Control Underwater Noise from Oil Drilling and Production
Operations |
577 |
Design Options for Offshore Pipelines in the US
Beaufort and Chukchi Seas |
584 |
Arctic Offshore Technology Assessment of
Exploration and Production Options for Cold Regions of the US Outer
Continental Shelf |
596 |
Sea Spray
Icing of Drilling and Production Platforms |
597 |
Assessment
of Superstructure Ice Protection As Applied to Offshore Oil
Operations Safety |
601 |
Seabed Scour and Buried-Pipeline Deformation due
to Ice Ridges |
608 |
Methods to Reduce Lateral Noise Propagation from
Seismic Exploration Vessels |
620 |
Collection and Archival of Environmental Data Relevant to
Design of Arctic Structures |
624 |
Beaufort and Chukchi Sea Ice Design Criteria |