Development and structural design of the bucket foundations for the Europipe jacket
- Statoil, Stavanger (Norway)
- Aker Engineering, Oslo (Norway)
The installation of the Statoil Europipe 16/11 E jacket with bucket foundations in the summer of 1994 represent the dawn of a new era for jacket foundation engineering. With traditional piled foundations giving way to the novel alternative termed ``bucket`` foundations, the installation of the Europipe jacket provides the first real opportunity to examine properly the benefits of this solution. The bucket foundations are circular plates with skirts installed at the base of each jacket leg, and as such they represent a radical departure from traditional piled foundation solutions. The bucket acts as gravity foundations with the skirts increasing the vertical compression and shear load capacity as well as providing considerable tension load capacity. This paper outlines the development of the bucket foundations, describes the structural design aspects and compares the results from the structural monitoring system installed on the jacket with the installation structural analysis results for the foundations.
- OSTI ID:
- 128950
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950501--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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