Fugro Engineers SA/NV provides consultancy services for the installation of pipelines.
Our pipeline consultancy services cover a range of analyses including:
- Pipeline route selection
- Pipeline soil-interaction
- Out-of-straightness analysis
- Span prediction
- Span check using latest DNV code
- Plough pick-up analysis
- Fatigue analysis
- Pre-sweeping analysis
- Upheaval and lateral buckling assessment, including rock dump optimization
Most of these analyses can be performed using in-house developed software SAGE Profile. Our pipeline consultancy services cover all the geotechnical aspects:
- Review of the soil conditions along pipeline routes, data integration and soil zonation
- Assessment of pipeline embedment, axial and lateral resistance (using friction coefficients and more advanced models)
- Trenching assessment (plough or jet-trencher) and backfilling risk assessment
- Assessment of backfill soil uplift resistance