By working closely with you we provide valuable, project-specific advice to identify value opportunities.This collaboration is critical. It ensures that the selected foundation, anchoring and pipeline solutions can be installed reliably and economically. It also makes sure that the solutions can withstand all conditions safely, throughout their working life.
Foundation analyses
We routinely carry out a wide range of foundation analyses, including:
- Installation performance
- Capacity under 3D loading (incorporating the detrimental effects of cyclic loading and the benefits from soil consolidation strength gain)
- Settlements and seismic performance (reduced foundation capacity and post-seismic settlements)
Software tools
Using our in-house software tools, we provide industry-leading advice on:
- Planning, execution and interpretation of site investigations for pipeline routes
- Assessments of pipeline embedment (for as-laid conditions and sediment mobility effects)
- Lateral and axial pipe-soil response models (such as friction factors)
- Optimised pipeline stabilisation solutions for on-bottom stability and thermally induced movements
Design and analysis
We provide the following design and analysis services:
- Seabed interpretation through the integration of geophysical, geological, in situ and laboratory geotechnical data
- Specification, supervision and interpretation of advanced laboratory testing
- Foundation design for subsea structures, platforms and mooring systems, typically for oil and gas projects and renewables projects
- Foundation design for nearshore structures, including ports, piers, sea defences and breakwaters
- Numerical modelling of laterally and cyclically loaded large diameter piles
- Jack-up leg penetration and spud can in-place stability assessment, including storm and seismic loading
- Well conductor analysis (such as installability, capacity and p-y, t-z curves)
- Hydrodynamics, sediment mobility and scour
- Soil-structure interaction, including pipe soil
- Specialist advice on topics such as non-standard soils, carbonate soils, silts, tar sands and permafrost
- The assessment of geohazards and their potential impact on infrastructure