Offshore Products
NAPA Heads Offshore
With the boom in the offshore oil and gas industry, Napa Ltd. has responded to offshore builders' growing needs for a comprehensive, streamlined application to assist in the design of these projects. NAPA release 2007.1 contained a new Manager application for the stability analysis of offshore structures. The Offshore Structures Stability (OSS) Manager was developed on the basis of discussions with leading offshore designers and builders in Europe, the Far East and the Americas over the past several years. The strength of the NAPA OSS Manager is its clear definition of the process to be followed in the stability analysis. Wind moment calculations and analysis, on the basis of either 3D wind models in NAPA or wind tunnel test data, are treated in detail in the Manager. Handling of loading conditions, intact stability and damage stability all follow one another logically in the analysis process. The dependencies and relationships between the design and the calculation results are maintained throughout the Manager: whenever some feature of the project changes, the designer clearly sees what must be updated and checked. One key aspect of the stability analysis is generation of the watertight integrity plan. This is a logical result of the work flow, and one of the principal items generated in the OSS Manager. Based on the stability analysis, NAPA can generate general arrangement drawings showing the watertight and weather tight integrity limits according to the stability regulations used in the analysis. These can be exported to DXF for further detailing in 2D CAD programs.
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Qatar Platforms Use 254 SMO
Oil and gas have made Qatar one of the world's faster growing countries. Oil and gas account for 70 percent of Qatar's government revenue. Proved oil reserves of more than 15 billion barrels are expected to ensure output at current levels for 23 years. Qatar's oil production was 790,000 bpd in 2005 (estimated). In December that year, Maersk Oil Qatar AS (an A.P. Moller - Maersk Group company) and Qatar Petroleum agreed on further development of the Al Shaheen offshore oil field, 180 km north of the capital Doha. In the first quarter of 2006, the field produced 240,000 bpd, and it is projected to reach the level of 525,000 bpd by late 2009. The number of platforms will peak at 18.
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