API RP 2A-LRFD

This document specifies requirements and provides recommendations applicable to the following types of fixed steel offshore structures for the petroleum and natural gas industries: free-standing and braced caissons, jackets, monotowers, and towers. In addition, it is applicable to compliant bottom founded structures, steel gravity structures, jack-ups, other bottom founded structures, and other structures related to offshore structures (such as underwater oil storage tanks, bridges, and connecting structures), to the extent to which its requirements are relevant. This document contains requirements for planning and engineering of the following tasks: design, fabrication, transportation, and installation of new structures, as well as their future removal; in-service inspection and integrity management of both new and existing structures; assessment of existing structures; and evaluation of structures for reuse at different locations.