scope:

This International Standard is applicable to the following types of fixed steel offshore structures for the petroleum and natural gas industries:

--- free-standing caissons;

--- jackets;

--- monotowers;

--- towers.

It contains requirements for planning and engineering of the following tasks:

a) design, fabrication, transportation and installation of new structures as well as their future removal;

b) in-service inspection and integrity management of both new and existing structures;

c) assessment of existing structures; and

d) evaluation of structures for reuse at different locations.

ISO 19902 applies to compliant bottom-founded structures, 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, only to the extent to which the requirements are relevant.