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

海上石油和天然气开采是一个每年170亿美元的行业，是国内生产总值的主要组成部分，但随着勘探延伸到超过1公里的水深，澳大利亚面临着越来越多的挑战。为了在这些环境中发展安全和经济的设施，需要解决重大的技术挑战，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定系统的响应模型。该项目有助于未来开采近海碳氢化合物储量，同时将对海洋环境的影响降至最低；它为我们的经济带来直接好处，并有助于保持我们在近海岩土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.