Page 38: of Offshore Engineer Magazine (Mar/Apr 2015)

37 39

EPIC

Sea? oor tools

Susan Gourvenec outlines toolbox approach for optimizing geotechnical design of subsea foundations ubsea foundations are becoming increasingly

S widespread as offshore development moves away from the conventional template of a ? xed platform over a set of wells to subsea development of multiple wells and ? elds tied back to a single facility.

Subsea developments com- prise a network of in? eld ? ow- lines and assorted pipeline and wellhead infrastructure,

Fig. 1: Evolution of o