...Offshore Site Investigation and Foundation Behaviour '98 O SUT 1998 GEOTECHNICAL CHALLENGES WEST OF SHETLAND T.G EVANS & J. CLARKE (BP Exploration Operating Company Limited), K.M. HAMPSON (BP Exploration Operating Company Limited , formerly Fugro Limited), C.H. PRICE (Geotechnical Consultant...

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... of geophysical and geotechnical surveys to accurately describe the properties and spatial variation of soil deposits at the site. Although used worldwide, suction caissons had not been used in the Gulf of Mexico at the tune of the Marlin site geotechnical investigation (January 1996) and have so far (March 1998...

... both an exlsting 'calcareous sand' design approach and a tentahve new proposal. It is shown that the proposals lead to both lower statistical scatter and a safer mean trend between predicbons and measurements. Offshore Site Investigation and Foundation Behaviour '98 Q SUT 1998 CALCAREOUS SANDS Most...

... on geotechnical data obtained as part of the seabed investigation, however, the geotechnical parameters determined may not be of direct relevance to the failure modes imposed on the soil by the trenching tool. This paper describes the typical data provided and discusses its applications to prediction of trenching...