Decommissioning Offshore Structures (Environmental Science and Engineering)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (732 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1447115546 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 166 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Specialists in these various fields have been brought together for this volume to contribute their assessments of the situation. It is essential reading for all those who are involved with major decommissioning projects, their possible environmental impact and their implications in politics and law.. A practical strategy for removing and disposing these structures needs to be developed which best meets the demands of all of these different aspects. Increasingly over the next few decades, the oil and gas industry faces the complex task of decommissioning its offshore platforms, pipelines and sub-sea equipment as they reach the end of their operational capabilities. The result is an important step toward the development of a co-ordinated approach to the subject. Decommissioning involves and integrates many distinct aspects: engineering, environmental, economic, legal, p
protection of personnel and environment at offshore site and the like. The book lacks real meat The book talks alot about high level decommissioning issues but nothing in detail. In my mind, a book of this nature should go into details for specific problematic areas in decommissioning such as how to actually manage contaminated production facilities, test methods, protection of personnel a