Pile driveability analyses for offshore platforms require a unique set of criteria, which may not normally be associated with other pile foundation installations. The selected hammers, pile makeup details and soil profile must be carefully reviewed, as these factors will determine if pile installations will be successful. The most important of the variables to establish is the expected Soil Res...

The state-of-the-art in understanding offshore geohazards has advanced significantly in the past decade. The advances have been mostly driven by the needs of the offshore petroleum industry. The pace of exploration and field development on the continental slopes and in ultra-deep waters worldwide has increased rapidly during the past decade. Activities are concentrated in areas where the sedime...

Measurements of ratios of stable isotopes are used in such diverse fields as petroleum prospecting, medical diagnostics, and planetary exploration. The narrow emission linewidth available from tunable diode lasers permits high-resolution infrared absorption measurements of closely spaced isotopic rovibrational lines. Our dual beam spectrometer uses the sweep integration technique in a spectral ...

The utilization of electrical techniques in oil and gas exploration has always been a subject of great interest to geophysicists, largely because of the hope that the application of such techniques would eventually lead to the direct detection of hydrocarbons through their insulating properties. However, 60 years of constant and at times frenzied debate over direct detection has failed to produ...

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