INDUSTRY STUDY INVOLVES TOWERS IN DEEP WATER

Hudson Engineering Corp., Houston, is leading an industry study of wear and corrosion on deepwater compliant towers. The study aims to develop data to support safe, reliable designs of pile-to-jacket connections, focusing on wear and corrosion rates and possible acceleration of those processes at times of simultaneous occurrence. Carbon steels and hard-facings are to be included in materials and corrosion testing phases of the project.

Feb. 9, 1993

Hudson Engineering Corp., Houston, is leading an industry study of wear and corrosion on deepwater compliant towers.

The study aims to develop data to support safe, reliable designs of pile-to-jacket connections, focusing on wear and corrosion rates and possible acceleration of those processes at times of simultaneous occurrence. Carbon steels and hard-facings are to be included in materials and corrosion testing phases of the project.

Hudson, a subsidiary of McDermott Inc., New Orleans, will provide project management, design, and analyses services. A division of McDermott's Babcock & Wilcox subsidiary, Alliance Research Center, Alliance, Ohio, will perform corrosion testing. Stress Engineering Services Inc., Houston, will test rates of wear.

The project is supported by Chevron Research & Technology Co., Exxon Production Research Co., Japan National Oil Corp., Marathon Oil Co., NKK Corp., and Shell Oil Co.