ISO/TC67/SC7 - Offshore Structures
NEWS 

ISO/TC67/SC7 News - Updated:  20th January 2006

January 2006. This SC7 web site is now maintained by David Galbraith. Very many thanks to Graham Thomas for setting it up and running it over recent years

December 2005:  19901-1 Metocean was approved by 17 of 17 voting, and was published on 16th November.  19901-7 Stationkeeping was approved by 14 of 15 voting, and is due on 15th December.  19901-3 is further delayed due to work on 19902.  The welding/fabrication/quality clauses of 19902 have been re-developed based on DIS comments and SC7 agreements to revise.  Information for the SC7 meeting in Paris, January 2006, is available at SC7's ISO Livelink folders.

August 2005:  Two ISO/FDIS are out for final ballot, with publication expected by end 2005:  19901-1 closing 28th September and 19901-7 closing 11th October.  The earlier ISO/DIS ballot results are:  19902: approved by 13 of 13 P-Members voting, no negatives; 19903: approved by 12 of 12 P-Members voting, no negatives; 19904-1: approved by 15 of 15 P-Members voting, no negatives.

April 2005:  DIS Enquiries on 19902 Fixed steel and 19903 Fixed concrete closed (both close dates had been extended at the request of one or more P-Members) and the close date on ISO/DIS 19904-1 Floating - MSS has been extended into May (to 25th).  The US "Regional Annex" to 19901-1 Metocean was completed and sent to join the remainder of the document that is already being prepared for FDIS.  The CD of 19901-6 Marine operations was issued, comment close date 17th July.

January 2005 – A well attended 2-day WG5 Panel 5 (stationkeeping) meeting at Noble Denton’s offices in London cleared all the technical comments received from ISO CS following the 19901-7 DIS voting stage. A final technical check will be made by Panel 5 members in February and March 2005 to ensure “ready for FDIS” status is achieved by WG5 by the next SC7 meeting in Houston.

October 2004:  Significant progress!  In the week leading up to the SC7 meeting (Rio, 2004) the DIS of 19902 and 19903 were issued for Enquiry.  The corrections to FDIS 19901-2 were agreed, clearing the way for publication by year end.  And at end October, the "Ready for DIS" of 19904-1 was sent to ISO CS.  However, making progress on the 19905 series continues to be challenging.

August 2004:  The ISO database view of the SC7 committee work programme including warnings of time limits may now be accessed directly on the ISOTC Livelink server; click link above (after logging in to ISOTC Livelink).

July 2004: A magnificent effort by ISO Central Secretariat and the ISO Project Leader has enabled ISO/FDIS 19901-2 Seismic to be issued for Final Vote starting 29th July; voting closes on 29th September.

May 2004: Draft 19901-2 Seismic sent as "Ready for FDIS" to Secretariat for Registration and preparation; FDIS may be expected to be issued for final vote (including ISO-CEN parallel processing) in September 2004

February 2004:  Tokyo meeting - Draft 19901-6 Marine operations issued for review.  SC7 agreed to issue 19901-7 as a DIS (Note: DIS Enquiry started March 2004).

18th September 2003: ISO 19901-1 is issued for DIS Enquiry - comment close date (for ISO CS) is 18th February 2004; comments via National Standards Bodies please, some weeks earlier (each NSB will have its own date and review process).

1st September 2003: ISO 19901-4 and ISO 19901-5 published by ISO; and now available for national adoptions.  Note: in Europe these are simultaneously adopted as "EN ISO" and therefore will automatically become the national standards of European (EU & EEA) countries.

August 2003: SC7 Report 67N851 to the ISO/TC67 Plenary to be held in September 2003 (Milan, Italy)

8th June 2003:  US/API and European experts reach agreement on the fatigue S-N curves to be presented in the first edition of 19902 (see Resolution 192).  Stationkeeping is being split out from 19904 Floating offshore structures to become a new Part 7 of 19901 (see Resolution 188).  19906 Arctic offshore structures is scheduled for publication in 2009, see revised Schedule from 19th meeting.

April:  FDIS for 19901-4 and 19901-5 have been issued for Final Vote and error checking.

1st December 2002: ISO 19900 "Petroleum and natural gas industries - General requirements for offshore structures" published.  Note: in Europe this is simultaneously adopted as "EN ISO 19900" and is therefore automatically to become the national standard of every European (EU & EEA) country.

4th November 2002: Resolutions (N333) and revised Schedule from 18th meeting, Perth, now available.

24th October 2002:  ISO 19900 "General requirements" passed final ballot, but many countries and the SC7 Secretariat expressed concern at some of the "editorial" changes, and these changes caused two of the P-Members to submit negative votes to ISO..  The SC7 Secretariat intends that all the corrections required by the Chairman and Secretary will be made before publication.  The prEN being parallel-voted in CEN also passed ballot, with one negative due to the "editorial" changes.
ISO/CD 19903 "Fixed concrete" was distributed as doc. SC7 N 330 for review and comment by 2003-01-31.

22nd August 2002:  ISO/FDIS prEN 19900 issued for FDIS vote and EN Final Vote- close date 2002-10-22.  When published in December, ISO 19900 will replace ISO 13819-1 and will be the first of the 19900 series for offshore structures.  It will be automatically adopted as European national standards, e.g. as BS EN ISO 19900, NF EN ISO 19900 etc.
19901-5 was sent ready for FDIS in August; FDIS is expected in November (click here for progress)

31st January 2002:  WG8 established for "Arctic offshore structures", convened by Denis Blanchet (Canada) for the new project 19906 that was approved in January 2002;
WG9 established for "Marine operations", convened by Johan Wichers (Netherlands) for the existing project 19901-6 that is transferred from WG4.

2nd January 2002:  Regional Annexes - Guidance for Authors, see doc. N 309 (click to view/download 28kb PDF file of the Guide itself)
Draft Agenda for 30-31 Jan: committee members may view document SC7 N 307 at ISOTC Livelink.

17th October 2001:  NWIP (New Work Item Proposal) for a new project 19906 "Arctic Offshore Structures" issued for voting by 17th January 2002 - committee members may view document SC7 N 299 at ISOTC Livelink.

28th July 2001: New Draft WD 19904 C++ Floating offshore structures available

14th July 2001:  ISO Bulletin March 2001 "A common platform: ISO/TC 8 and ISO/TC 67 establish strategic alliance" - see http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/commcentre/pdf/Ships0103.pdf

21st June 2001:  N292 SC7 Resolutions 152-165 from June 2001 available; Project schedules revised;
CD 19902 Fixed steel circulated for comment by 30th November; WD 19903 Fixed concrete issued for information.

17th April 2001:  An interim draft of 19904 (Draft C+) Floating offshore structures is available for download and review/comment.

17th March 2001:  19901-4 and 19901-5 are issued for DIS Enquiry (final chance for review and comment)
19901-4 DIS Enquiry closes 2001-05-21; 19901-5 DIS Enquiry closes 2001-08-08.  National bodies normally require to receive comments up to one month before Enquiry close date. 

17th January 2001:  SC7 meeting held in Oslo, Norway on 15/16th January.   Titles of the Standards revised; Schedule revised; "Fixed Concrete" to be issued as a "Technical Specification" in December 2001; Canada to make proposal for "arctic" structures.  See Resolutions.

13th September 2000:  The Oil & Gas Producer's Association (OGP) JIP to fund the Fixed Steel Structures Standard (see SC7 Resolution 131) was re-organised to address only completion of a DIS by end 2001 and has been well recieved by the Industry and has commenced. The Editing Panel comprising David Galbraith, John Weagter and Jan Vugts held their first meeting under the new JIP arrangement (note Jan Vugts funded separately by Shell) in August.  David Galbraith, as leader of the Editing Panel and Deputy Convenor of WG3 will continue to work closely with the WG3 Panel Convenors to complete the editing of their drafts.

13th July 2000:  SC7 N267: WD 13819-4 (19904) Floating Systems for comment by 15th September

21st June 2000:  API agree to help OGP funding for technical editing.

9th June 2000: New Numbering System agreed for all SC7 Projects - see "Projects" above
Project Schedules revised - Fixed Steel Structures now not before 2004 - see "Schedule" above