Project to assess the vulnerability, operability, and safety of sub-sea production systems in the GOM during earthquakes of varying probabilistic seismic intensities. The assessment involved participation from industry and regulatory representatives to define current sub-sea systems, technologies, operation, concerns, and the potential mitigation actions during times of events (earthquakes). Research Tasks have been broken out into these areas: Review historical seismic activity and seismic risks in the GOM; Identify prototype sub-sea structural and non-structural systems; Develop representative structural models and analysis procedures; Identify performance limits states, and Conduct a performance based probabilistic evaluation of representative sub-sea systems and identify potential failure mechanisms during earthquakes.
Waiting on finalized papers and distribution and analysis and evaluations.
This project has been completed and final report has been accepted.