Application of field penetrometer data to offshore geotechnical design in deep water

海上油气开采是一个年收入170亿美元的产业，也是澳大利亚GDP的主要组成部分，但随着勘探范围扩大到水深超过1公里，澳大利亚面临着越来越多的挑战。为了在这些环境中开发安全和经济的设施，需要解决重大技术挑战，从评估海底土壤强度的新技术，到制定石油和天然气管道和浅基础或锚固系统的响应模型。该项目有助于未来海上油气储量的开发，同时最大限度地减少对海洋环境的影响；它给我们的经济带来了直接的好处，并有助于保持我们在海上岩土技术研究方面的世界领先地位。

Offshore oil and gas extraction is a $17 billion/year industry and a major component of GDP, but facing increasing challenges in Australia as exploration extends into water depths exceeding 1 km. In order to develop safe and economic facilities in these environments, solutions to significant technical challenges are required, ranging from new technology to assess the strength of seabed soils, to formulating response models for oil and gas pipelines and shallow foundations or anchoring systems. This project contributes to future exploitation of offshore hydrocarbon reserves while minimising impact on the marine environment; it brings direct benefits to our economy and helps maintain our world leadership in offshore geotechnical research.