General Provisions for Offshore Installations

This chapter is designed to provide a single source of guidance and information relating to the habitability criteria suitable for new and existing offshore installations. This chapter may be applied to installations falling under the categories of tension leg platforms (TLP), floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO), floating, storage and offloading (FSO), spars, fixed platforms, or any other buoyant or non-buoyant structure supported by or attached to the seafloor. It does not apply to offshore service vessels, dredgers, or mobile offshore drilling units such as self-elevating drilling units (SEDU), column-stabilised drilling units, or drillships as these are discussed in Part 4 of this book.