In the offshore piping design, deep water projects are playing a vital role in the recent years. Ever since the first pipe line was installed offshore, major developments are happening in deep waters. As the oil reserves are slowly getting depleted in shallow depths, major oil companies are exploring and investing in deep offshore projects, which are highly complex and very expensive when compared to fixed platforms functioning in shallow water depths. In early days of offshore industry, 80-100 meters water depth was considered as deep, but now floating production facilities are being installed in 1500-2000 meters water depth or more. As demand for fuel is growing every day, more and more deep water projects are lined up in the coming years.

As appeared in Offshore World India Magazine · By HNS Sharma

Effective engineering practices will help reduce additional hardware costs, reduce the time to yard for fabrication, provide accurate details and reduce clashes that are time consuming and costly to repair during fabrication.

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