API Publishes RP forr Structual Integrity Management
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has published a new recommended practice for structural integrity management. The new guidelines emphasise the importance of understanding topside structural integrity in order to maintain the offshore structures used in oil and natural gas drilling and production operations. Fugro’s on line monitoring (OLM) instrumentation package is helping asset owners to evaluate structural integrity as part of these new recommendations. The evaluation of structural integrity is central to the Recommended Practice for Structural Integrity Management of Fixed Offshore Platforms (RP 2SIM)…