Preface

MAY 2010

Subsea engineering is now a big discipline for the design, analysis, construction, installation and integrity management of subsea wellheads, trees, manifolds, jumpers, PLETS and PLEMs, etc. However, there is no book available that helps engineers understand the principles of subsea engineering.

This book is written for those who wish to become subsea engineers.

With the continuous encouragement of Mr. Ken McCombs of Elsevier, the authors spent a couple of years writing this book. The authors would like to thank those individuals who provided editing assistance (Ms. Lihua Bai & Ms. Shuhua Bai), initial technical writing for Chapters 1-4 (Mr. Youxiang Cheng), Chapters 6-8 (Mr. Xiaohai Song), Chapter 11 (Mr. Shiliang He), Chapter 5 (Mr. HongDong Qiao), Chapter 23 (Mr. Liangbiao Xu) and Chapter 27 (Mr. Mike Bian). They are employees of Offshore Pipelines & Risers (OPR) Inc. ([email protected], www.opr-inc.com, www.baiyongoe.com).

Thanks to all persons involved in reviewing the book, particularly Ms. Mohanambal Natarajan of Elsevier, who provided editory assistance.

We thank our families and friends for their support.

The first author would like to thank Zhejiang University for their support for publishing this book.

Prof. Yong Bai and, Dr. Qiang Bai

Houston, USA