Maersk Drilling projects

GEO is currently working on a number of projects for the geotechnical engineering assessment of jack-up drilling platforms in the North Sea, offshore Malaysia, Brunei, Egypt, Cameroon etc. The contractor is Maersk Drilling and the projects consist of engineering design for the installation and operation phases. The scope of work covers the evaluation of the soil data, application of the conventional and FE analyses for spudcan penetration and punch through risk assessments, as well as analyses for the environmental loads. 2D and 3D FE analyses are also applied for the design of the gravel banks, swiss cheesing, investigation of the skirted spudcan-footprint and spudcan-inclined seabed interaction etc.