Due to great amount of vertical gravity and lateral environmental loads imposed by jacket structure, the bearing capacity of surficial deposits will not be satisfactory. Pile foundations are used to transfer the imposed loads to greater depths of soil profile and provide a required vertical and lateral resistance.

Mechanical behavior of soil as a bearing medium of offshore platforms directly affects the design approach and installation procedures of a given jacket. Any faults in prediction of bearing capacity of a specific soil profile could have a great impact on total cost and duration of construction and would even lead to loss of jacket in severe cases.

Prediction of Pile Foundations static bearing capacity for Offshore Jackets is one of specialties of Parsian Offshore Gulf survey. In-house developed computing software and great theoretical background of company technical staff, makes it possible to provide the clients a fast and precise prediction ofstatic soil bearing capacity for bored and driven piles.

All calculations are based on API standards and any limitations in interpretation of engineering information of soil stratigraphy is studied in details and considered in the analysis. Considerations of problematic soil profiles are studies in details based on available guidelines in most addressed technical references.