Offshore research

Introduction

HSE's Energy Division (ED) research is undertaken by a mixture of:

  • Intramural, by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL)
  • Extramural, from directly commissioned outside bodies
  • Extramural, in the form of JIPs. These could be either with HSE funding or with investment of HSE specialist involvement/support only.

ED's strategy sets out how our research programme is identified and prioritised. The requirements are based on an assessment of ED's future business needs in relation to offshore health and safety regulation.

ED's Research priorities

  • Research that can be linked to our four key themes of:
    • Leadership
    • Asset integrity
    • Competency
    • Safety culture
  • Urgent research arising from reactive work such as investigation
  • In response to new technology
  • Support for ED's business development

Research reports

All of HSE's Research Reports[40] are published on our website. For ease of reference a full list of offshore specific reports[41] is also available.

International Committee On Regulatory Authority Research And Development (ICRARD)

HSE is a member of ICRARD which is dedicated to disseminating knowledge in the area of health, safety and environment in the petroleum sector. Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, The Netherlands, UK, and the USA are members. ICRARD's web site provides an overview of ongoing research programs and projects in the member countries, and includes links to key contacts, research programs and institutes etc.

Current programme of offshore research

Our current programme includes the following projects:

  • Dealing with emerging issues offshore
  • Stress corrosion cracking in stainless steels used offshore
  • Integrity of passive fire protection condition / response with explosion followed by fire
  • Thermal cycling of PFP for high pressure/high temperature applications
  • Vulnerability of oil contaminated fire retardant overalls
  • Flammability of water/offshore process fluid mixtures
  • Assessment of the significance of aerosol hazards from multi-component, flammable impinging releases
  • Testing of fire dampers to draft ISO standards
  • Technical guidance on use of aluminium offshore
  • Inspection of ageing offshore installations
  • In-safe joint industry project (JIP): Improved guidelines for the prediction of geotechnical performance of spudcan foundations during installation
  • Flashing liquid jets and two-phase dispersion (droplet) phase IV (formation of flammable mists offshore)
  • Development of guidelines for normally unattended offshore installations
  • Floating Production System - Mooring integrity - Phase 2
  • Cooperative research on extreme seas and their impact
  • Mooring chain out of plane bending - Joint industry project
  • Offshore working time in relation to performance and health & safety
  • Evaluation of worldwide practices on the structural integrity management and regulation of ageing installations
  • Further study of fatigue damage to girth welds from low stresses in the loading spectrum - Joint industry project
  • Material property requirements for mobile offshore installations
  • Review of the structural integrity management aspects of Classification Society rules for mobile offshore installations in the context of the UK regulatory regime
  • Overview of the UK's ageing offshore infrastructure - Structural integrity considerations
  • Techniques and technology underpinning the management of ageing jacket integrity - Phase 2: Detailed review of key structural integrity issues
  • Residual stress measurements and modelling for offshore girth welds
  • Seismic monitoring of the UK Continental Shelf including North West Atlantic
  • Techniques and technology underpinning the management of ageing jacket integrity - Phase 1
  • Response to dynamic impact to installations
  • Framework for structural integrity management of mobile installations
  • ISO 19905 1 technical development
  • Review of design methods for wave impact loading on FPSOs and FSUs

Link URLs in this page

  1. Offshore oil and gashttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/index.htm
  2. How we workhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/how.htm
  3. Offshore health and safety lawhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/law.htm
  4. Workforce involvementhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/workinvolvement.htm
  5. Unconventional oil and gas exploration (shale gas)https://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/unconventional-gas.htm
  6. Overview - Offshore topicshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/topics.htm
  7. Accommodationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/accommodation.htm
  8. Ageinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/ageing/index.htm
  9. Corrosion and materialshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/corrosion-and-materials.htm
  10. Offshore divinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/diving.htm
  11. Electrical and control systemshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/controlsystems.htm
  12. Evacuation, escape and rescue (EER)https://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/eer.htm
  13. Fire, explosion and risk assessmenthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/assessment.htm
  14. Human factorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/humanfactors.htm
  15. International liaisonhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/liaison.htm
  16. Marine and aviationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/marineaviation.htm
  17. Maritime integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/maritimeintegrity.htm
  18. Mechanical engineeringhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/mechengineering.htm
  19. Occupational healthhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/occupationalhealth.htm
  20. Offshore pipelineshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/pipelines.htm
  21. Process integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/processintegrity.htm
  22. Researchhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/offshoreresearch.htm
  23. Safety caseshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/safetycases.htm
  24. Safety management systemshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/managementsystems.htm
  25. Structural integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/structuralintegrity.htm
  26. Verificationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/verification.htm
  27. Wellshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/wells.htm
  28. Working timehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/workingtime.htm
  29. Overview - Resourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/resources.htm
  30. Overview - Publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/publications.htm
  31. Operations noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/notices/index.htm
  32. Safety alerts and noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/notices/index.htm#safety-alerts
  33. Offshore information sheetshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/infosheets/index.htm
  34. Research reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/researchreports.htm
  35. Statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics/index.htm
  36. Offshore charging informationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/charging.htm
  37. Key programme final reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/programmereports.htm
  38. Offshore Directivehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/directive.htm
  39. Subscribehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/ebulletin/index.htm
  40. HSE's Research Reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/research/publish.htm
  41. offshore specific reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/researchreports.htm
  42. Offshore publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/publications.htm
  43. Research reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/researchreports.htm
  44. Offshore statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics/index.htm
  45. Diving micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/diving/index.htm
  46. Pipelines micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pipelines/index.htm
  47. Electricity micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/index.htm
  48. Carbon capture and storage micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/carboncapture/index.htm
  49. Regulating major hazards micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/regulating-major-hazards/index.htm
  50. Safety bulletinhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulletins/index.htm
  51. HSE Publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/index.htm
  52. Science and researchhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/research/index.htm
  53. Charging activitieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/charging/index.htm
  54. Health and safety statisticsfile:///J%7C/website/livelive/statistics/index.htm
  55. International Regulators Forumhttp://www.irfoffshoresafety.com/
  56. Institution of Occupational Safety and Healthhttp://www.iosh.co.uk/
Updated 2023-11-13