Offshore Operations and Engineering

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of each aspect of offshore operations including conventional methods of operations, emerging technologies, legislations, health, safety and environment impact of offshore operations. It starts by coverage of notable offshore fields across the globe and the statistics of present oil production, covering all types of platforms available along with their structural details. Further, it discusses production, storage and transportation, production equipment, safety systems, automation, storage facilities and transportation. The book ends with common legislation acts and comparison of different legislation acts of major oil/gas producing nations. It is aimed at professionals and researchers in petroleum engineering, offshore technology, subsea engineering, and explores the engineering, technology, system, environmental, operational and legislation aspects of offshore production systems. It covers most of the subsea engineering material in a concise manner, includes legislation of major oil and gas producing nations pertaining to offshore operations, incorporates case studies of major offshore operations accidents and lessons learnt, and discusses environment impact of offshore operations.