We are delighted to announce our participation in the inaugural Offshore Late-Life Jacket Integrity Conference, taking place on Wednesday, 12 March 2025, at the Global Underwater Hub in Westhill, Aberdeen, where Andy Smerdon, Managing Director of Aquatec, will be sharing insights on our latest structural monitoring innovations.
Session: Intervention Methods for Fitness for Service
Time: 13:15 – 14:55 (GMT)
Title: Live Strain Monitoring in the Splash Zone
As offshore structures operate well beyond their design life in increasingly harsh conditions, traditional inspection methods no longer provide adequate safety assurance. Aquatec’s presentation will demonstrate how innovation applied to monitoring systems can deliver continuous, high-precision data that enables proactive integrity management and potentially extends asset lifecycle. By providing early warnings of structural issues above and below the waterline, these systems represent a step-change in offshore safety and operational efficiency. You can expect to learn more about:
- Retrofit real-time strain monitoring for jacket structural members both subsea and in the splash zone
- Technical challenges in harsh marine environments and how to overcome them
- Advanced monitoring features, including micro-strain measurement and robust data communication
- Retrofit cathodic protection solutions for late-life jackets
Conference Overview:
Jacket technology was one of the cornerstone progressions that enabled the growth of the UK’s offshore industry. These towering structures have remained in operation in some cases long past their initial design life, enduring the harshest of weather conditions. As they approach late-life, assessing and understanding the structural integrity and capacity of jackets is a key requirement as owners consider their future, be it to continue late-life production operations, re-use for energy transition technologies such as carbon capture or preparing for decommissioning and removal.
With the revision of the ISO 19901- 9 Structural Integrity Management guidelines due to be released for consultation in 2025, this event offers practitioners in the industry the opportunity to convene and inform on the latest developments. With the UK asset base being one of the most mature, the learnings from the conference will have global applications and relevance. Highlighting the importance of jacket integrity management across a range of late-life use cases, the event will bring together key industry stakeholders in a format designed to share experiences on challenges encountered, methods and technology solutions deployed and emerging technical trends in the industry.
Four sequential themed sessions are planned, drawing on a cross-section of case studies, technology developments, and new applications. Each session will be followed by an open-floor Q&A with the presenters.
Session 1: Late-Life Integrity Challenges
Session 2: Developments in ISO 19901-9 standard to demonstrate Fitness for Service
Session 3: Intervention Methods for Fitness for Service
Session 4: Preparing for the future