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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24896.
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Bolting Reliability for
Offshore Oil and
Natural Gas Operations

PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP

Anne Frances Johnson, Rapporteur

National Materials and Manufacturing Board

Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

National Academy of Engineering

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Suggested citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.17226/24896.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24896.
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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24896.
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COMMITTEE ON CONNECTOR RELIABILITY FOR OFFSHORE OIL AND NATURAL GAS OPERATIONS

ROBERT SCHAFRIK, NAE,1 GE Aviation (retired), Chair

ROBERT POHANKA, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (retired), Vice Chair

CLYDE BRIANT, NAE, Brown University

BILL CAPDEVIELLE, Consultant

HOMERO CASTANEDA-LOPEZ, Texas A&M University

NANCY J. COOKE, Arizona State University

THOMAS W. EAGAR, NAE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BRUN L. HILBERT, Exponent

DEREK J. HORTON, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

DAVID W. JOHNSON, JR., NAE, Stevens Institute of Technology

DAVID K. MATLOCK, NAE, Colorado School of Mines

JYOTIRMOY MAZUMDER, NAE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

ROGER L. McCARTHY, NAE, McCarthy Engineering

JOHN R. SCULLY, University of Virginia

POL D. SPANOS, NAE, Rice University

NEIL G. THOMPSON, Det Norske Veritas (DNV GL)

Staff

ERIK SVEDBERG, Senior Program Officer, Study Director

JAMES LANCASTER, Director, National Materials and Manufacturing Board

NEERAJ P. GORKHALY, Associate Program Officer

HEATHER LOZOWSKI, Financial Associate

JOSEPH PALMER, Senior Project Assistant

HENRY KO, Research Assistant

Consultant

ANNE FRANCES JOHNSON, Rapporteur

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1 Member, National Academy of Engineering.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24896.
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NATIONAL MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING BOARD

CELIA MERZBACHER, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Chair

RODNEY C. ADKINS, NAE,1 IBM Corporate Strategy (retired)

MICHAEL I. BASKES, NAE, Bagley College of Engineering

JIM C.I. CHANG, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

MALCOLM CHISHOLM, NAS,2 Ohio State University

LEO CHRISTODOULOU, Boeing, Inc.

JACK HU, NAE, University of Michigan

SANDRA L. HYLAND, Consultant

MICHAEL F. McGRATH, McGrath Analytics, LLC

ROBERT MILLER, IBM Almaden Research Center

EDWARD MORRIS, National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining; America Makes: The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute

NICHOLAS A. PEPPAS, NAE/NAM,3 University of Texas, Austin

F. STAN SETTLES, University of Southern California

HAYDN WADLEY, University of Virginia

BEN WANG, Georgia Institute of Technology

STEVE ZINKLE, NAE, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Staff

JAMES LANCASTER, Director

ERIK SVEDBERG, Senior Program Officer

NEERAJ P. GORKHALY, Associate Program Officer

HEATHER LOZOWSKI, Financial Associate

JOSEPH PALMER, Senior Project Assistant

HENRY KO, Research Assistant

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1 Member, National Academy of Engineering.

2 Member, National Academy of Sciences.

3 Member, National Academy of Medicine.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24896.
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Acknowledgment of Reviewers

This Proceedings of a Workshop was reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in making each published proceedings as sound as possible and to ensure that it meets the institutional standards for quality, objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process.

We thank the following individuals for their review of this proceedings:

David Cain, Lloyd’s Register Group Limited,

John Hoefler, Lloyd’s Register Group Limited,

William Johnson, NAS1/NAE,2 California Institute of Technology, and

James Pettigrew, Texas A&M University.

Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of the proceedings nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this proceedings was overseen by Aziz I. Asphahani, QuesTek Innovations, LLC. He was responsible for

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2 Member, National Academy of Engineering.

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The Planning Committee on Connector Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations held the Workshop on Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations in Washington, D.C., on April 10-11, 2017. The workshop was designed to advance and develop a comprehensive awareness of the outstanding issues associated with fastener material failures and equipment reliability issues. Speakers and participants were also encouraged to discuss possible paths for ameliorating risks associated with fasteners used for subsea critical equipment in oil and gas operations. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

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