Innovation of offshore geoscience codes and standards to meet the energy transition

Overview

Industry codes and standards will be required to innovate to meet the demands of the energy transition. Much of the proven practice used for the engineering of offshore foundations today has its roots in the oil and gas industry.

However, the energy transition will require engineering practice to achieve a reliable and economic foundation design at a very large scale when compared to the oil and gas industries. This presentation focuses on ISO 19901-4, how the content of that standard has developed, the goals of a design process and what innovation it already enables.

The presentation then discusses engineering techniques that have yet to find their way into regular use offshore including, probabilistic design, full integration of geotechnical and geophysical data, the observational method and performance-based design. It then moves on to look at emerging techniques including synthetic CPTs and artificial intelligence.