This project continued the work completed from a previous Joint Industry Project (JIP) entitled: 'Rationalization and Optimization of Underwater Inspection Planning Consistent with API RP21 Section 14':
Project Goals:
Identify commonly occurring defects with the potential to be a significant to the platform structural integrity. Define categories, and verify their validity, of platforms within the GOM fleet with distinctly different levels of redundancy, robustness and damage tolerance. Develop guidelines for the definition of significant platform damage with due account for the defect tolerance afforded by the inherent robustness and redundancy of the framing configuration and other influences. Define reporting procedures consistent with an improved MMS platform damage register for platform damage information management.
The project had been awarded in August, 2001, involving several industry requests.
Draft Final Report was developed in the Fall 2002.