| Abstrakt: |
Ploughing is one of the most common methods for burying subsea pipelines or cables for protection against trawls, on-bottom stability, for better thermal insulation or for meeting the legislative requirement. A ploughability assessment is undertaken during design and planning stages to evaluate suitability a plough for required burial depth and to determine the duration of offshore ploughing operation. This paper presents the insight into ploughability assessment, state-of-the-art methodology for the assessment and highlights some critical limitations that shall be undertook by the designers and engineers. An accurate ploughability assessment undertaken with full knowledge of its limitations would reduce project risks and could lead to millions of dollars in cost savings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
