Environmental Load Factors and System Strength Evaluation of Offshore Jacket Platforms

Zafarullah Nizamani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology, Jalan University. He has more than 15 years experience as consultant and his research interests are in structural reliability, code calibration, Bayesian updating and fluid structure interaction.

• Introduction.- History of code development.- History of offshore oil production.- Jacket platform design in Malaysia.- Uncertainty.- Load Uncertainty.- Structural reliability.- Joint reliability.- Environmental load factor.