... regions present environmental and geotechnical hazards; such as: ice gouging, frost heave, slope movement, mudslides, deepwater issues, and seismic activity; that present significant technical challenges and sources of uncertainty for pipeline engineering design, construction and operation...

...Morgan L. Boukinda Mbadinga; Franck Schoefs; Valerie Quiniou-Ramus; Michel Birades; Raymond Garretta Colonization process of marine growth increasingly arouses the interest of the oil industry because engineering design or reassessment of platforms requires forecasting of biological fouling...