The intention behind writing this book is to develop a textbook and handy resource that sufficiently addresses current practices, recent advances, and emerging trends on core technologies for designing, building, and operating ship-shaped offshore units, within certain inevitable space (and time) requirements. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the initial contracting strategy to the decommissioning and even the removal of the units concerned, but not always to a depth some might have wished for. Although a large number of research papers and references and industry standards useful for specific topics in the areas do exist, we did our best to highlight selected and useful ones among them in the various chapters and appendices. Fixed-type offshore platforms, which have been useful for oil and gas developments in relatively shallow waters, are now much less feasible as we move further in developing oil and gas fields in deep- and ultra deep-water areas, now reaching more than 1,000m water depth. Floating-type offshore structures have to be increasingly considered to develop these deep-water areas. In addition to ship-shaped offshore units, at least three other types of floating production systems – semi submersibles, spars, and tension leg platforms (TLP) are also available today for that purpose. All other associated field structures and systems to transport produced oil and gas to the facilities on shore, but perhaps to varying degrees.
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