FPSs and FPSOs/Hull integrity assessment
FPSO Hull Integrity Assessment
After consultation with industry, TWI has identified four major areas where design, construction and maintenance improvements are required for FPSO hull integrity.
With its unique experience in the oil and gas upstream sector, TWI is ideally placed to deliver advice, R&D and consultancy across all of these areas whilst developing tailor-made solutions for international projects across the globe.
- Material characterisation and inspection strategy planning
Modelling and manufacturing processes
NDT consultancy
Metallurgy
- In-service performance of FPSO structures
Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA)
Structural assessment site services
Fatigue testing and assessment services
Structural integrity using finite element analysis
Failure investigations from TWI
Modelling and manufacturing processes
Residual stress and distortion - prediction and measurement
Fatigue qualification of girth welds
- Inspection and repair of FPSO structures
FPSO Inspect (EU project) - launch date July/August 2004
FPSO corrosion - ref PR 7926 - launch date 15 July 2004
FPSO repair - ref PR8046 - launch date 14 July 2004
- Risk-based inspection (RBI)
Contact: oilandgas@twi.co.uk
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