Abstract Submarine slope instabilities are considered one of the major threats for offshore buried pipelines. This paper presents a novel method to evaluate ultimate pressure acting on pipeline during liquefaction an inclined seabed. Small-scale model tests with pipes at three different embedment ratios have been conducted enhanced centrifugal acceleration condition. A high-speed, high-resoluti...

Companies in developed economies are now accustomed to use offshore IS services to develop and maintain software, and an increasing number of specialist offshore services firms exists to meet the demand. These include systems integrators whose origins are in developed economies, and ‘pure play’ offshore IS providers that originate in countries where the cost of IS labour is relatively low. Both...

This paper describes an in depth analysis of successful and unsuccessful offshore custom software development (CSD) projects. Offshore projects tend to be unsuccessful, because physical, time, cultural, organizational, and stakeholder distances negatively influence communication and knowledge exchange between onshore and offshore project team members. The success rate of 19 offshore CSD project...

The application of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in offshore oil fields has received significant attention due to the potentially enormous amount of recoverable oil. However, EOR application offshore is in its very early stage due to conditions that are more complex than onshore oil fields, owing to the unique parameters present offshore. Therefore, successful EOR applications in offshore oil fie...

Customer relationship management (CRM) refers to a firm’s activities for establishing and maintaining relationships with its customers. Outsourcing refers to a firm’s contracting with another firm to perform activities that were erstwhile performed within the firm. The emergence of a low cost, high speed, global communication network and information processing network has enabled an increasing ...

Offshore pipelines and structures require regular marine growth removal inspection to ensure structural integrity. These operations are typically carried out by Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) demand reliable accurate feedback signals for operating the ROVs efficiently under harsh offshore conditions. This study investigates quantifies how sensor delays impact expected control performance wit...

Based on 45 interviews and significant documentation, we explore the offshore outsourcing experiences of a US-based biotechnology company. This company offshore outsourced 21 IT projects to six suppliers in India. Senior managers and the official documents from the Program Management Office consistently reported that offshore outsourcing was successful in reducing the company’s IT costs. But in...

The atmospheric conditions that lead to strong offshore surface winds in Southern California, commonly referred to as Santa Ana winds, are investigated using the North American Regional Reanalysis and a 12-year, 6-km resolution regional climate simulation of Southern California. We first construct an index to characterize Santa Ana events based on offshore wind strength. This index is then used...

The use of CO2-based hydrocarbons plays a crucial role in reducing the climate footprint for several industry sectors, such as chemical industry. Recent studies showed that regions which are favorable production from an energy perspective often do not provide concentrated point sources CO2, leads to increased environmental impact due higher demand direct air capture processes. Thus, producing H...

Cutter Suction Dredgers (CSDs) are a special type of ships designed for construction and maintenance projects ocean offshore engineering. During the dredging operation, CSDs can excavate nearly all kinds soil on sea bed, then dredged materials with coarse particles need to be sucked up by slurry pump transported disposal area through long-distance pipeline. In order avoid sedimentation in pipel...