Analysis and Sustainable Development of Offshore Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few years, enormous efforts have been made to improve the energy sector by enhancing sustainability. The application of sustainable design approaches, the selection of low-impact materials, waste recycling and reuse, among others, are all factors in the construction of offshore platforms. The examination of offshore platform sustainability performance, including the creation of quantification methodologies, indicators, and other metrics, has also been extensively researched around the world. Since energy is used in nearly every area of modern economies, it is regarded as a strategic asset. Apart from renewable generation sources, natural gas and oil are the most common fuels used to generate electricity. It's no surprise that recent challenges from commodity, stock, and credit markets, which have put natural gas and oil companies' operations in risk, have been a major topic of discussion in the academic literature, particularly in recent decades, when both markets have changed at an unprecedented rate due to changes in both supply technologies and energy demand characteristics. Natural gas and crude oil are normally competitors in the creation of power, but they are also alternatives for one another in consumption, resulting in price correlations. We welcome articles that examine the design and analysis of offshore structures, sustainable development, wind turbine design, oil and gas platform design, market reviews, literature reviews and research papers on the asset standpoint to be submitted to this special issue of Sustainability. We encourage research into the characteristics of different components of the oil and gas industry, from design, exploration and transfer, and related issues like oil spillage, oil recovery, carbon capture and geotechnical survey. Also, the economics (oil prices) in commodities markets, stock market prices for oil and gas companies, capital structure choices and funding alternatives used in the two sectors, and spillover effects between the two markets and from (to) these markets to (from) other financial markets is welcomed. Papers examining the geopolitical dynamics that impact natural gas and oil markets, marine law cases involving the oil & gas industry, oil & gas policies and legislations, as well as papers addressing the sector's future difficulties and uncertainties, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, are also encouraged. This special issue of Sustainability aspires to become a future reference point for chronicling oil and gas industry, sustainable devlopments, recent transformations and future paths. Novel designs/developments like floating stadium, floating airports, floating offices, floating platforms and floating houses are part of sustainable developments, and can also be submitted. Hence, this Special Issue on the “Analysis and Sustainable development of offshore structures”. The main goal of this special issue is to address the key challenges, thereby promoting research on offshore structures. Topics of interest of this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

• Offshore structures design, ainstallation, construction, commissioning and analysis;
• Offshore platform maintenance and rehabilitation, operations management and logistics;
• marine risers, flexible risers, Steel Catenary Risers (SCR), composite risers and subsea cable;
• Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and flowlines (SURF), floats; bend restrictors; end fitting design;
• marine hoses (floating hoses, submarine hoses, reeling hoses), offloading lines (OLLs);
• Subsea pipelines, offshore marine tubular structures and additive manufacturing for offshore;
• semisubmersibles, service operation vessels (SOV) and high speed vessels (HSV);
• vibration studies, vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and fluid-structure interaction (FSI);
• wind turbine design, floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) and Offshore wind farms;
• floating production, offloading and storage (FPSO) units,
• Very Large Floating structures (VLFS), gravity and concrete-based platforms;
• renewable energy devices, marine devices, floating buoys, and wave energy converters (WEC);
• Fixed Offshore Structures and Floating Offshore Structures;
• marine autonomous ships, Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and shipping vessels;
• Marine composites, sustainability in offshore construction; construction materials;
• Offshore policies and legislation, local content material, Marine law cases;
• stress analysis, failure analysis, stability analysis, and hydrodynamic analysis;
• material durability, structural reliability, optimisation and machine learning;
• Mooring lines, Structural Integrity, Facilities Management, and Offshore Assest Evaluation;
• Standardisation, Certification, Standards Elaboration, Industry guidance, Specifications;
• Environmental impact assessment (EIA), oil exploration, and geotechnical survey;
• Oil spills, remediation, hazard analysis, oil recovery, carbon capture and storage (CCS);
• Full-scale simulation, Numerical modelling, Structural and functional performance;
• Structural modelling, Structural design, Oil field test, experiments and other laboratory tests;
• Energy economies, oil and gas market, oil and gas prices and Decarbonisation in the industry.

Dr. Chiemela Victor Amaechi
Dr. Ahmed Reda
Dr. Abiodun Kolawole Oyetunji
Dr. Agbomerie Charles Odijie
Guest Editors

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• offshore structures
• offshore structures design analysis
• offshore platform
• semisubmersibles
• Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Pipelines (SURP)
• subsea cables and flowlines
• marine hoses
• floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT)
• Very Large Floating structures (VLFS)
• Floating Offshore Structures
• Fixed Offshore Structures
• ships and marine crafts
• floating buoys
• wave energy converters (WEC)
• marine riser design
• hydrodynamic analysis
• stability analysis
• mooring analysis
• fatigue analysis
• stress analysis
• sustainable development
• sustainable construction materials
• hull construction
• structural reliability
• oil and gas market
• oil policies and marine law cases
• standards and certification
• offshore facilities management
• oil spills and remediation
• carbon capture and storage (CCS)