Design
Noble Offshore offers a range of analytical and practical services specifically designed for fixed platforms, including steel jackets, gravity base structures and compliant towers. We can also supervise and evaluate fixed-platform design on behalf of an operator.
Our in-house expertise provides:
- Metocean specialists
- Geotechnical engineers
- Environmental specialists
- Installation engineering, modification and fine-tuning of the design
- Certification and verification authority
- Modelling and analysing of structures to define suitability over their lifetime
Innovative hydrodynamic, structural and geotechnical issues associated with fixed-platform design developments are a particular feature of Noble Offshore’s service, specifically for:
- Ringing
- Joint designs
- Fracture-mechanic-based fatigue design
- Foundation design
- Seismic analysis
- Fire and blast analysis