**The Use of GNSS GPS Technology for Offshore Oil and Gas Platform Subsidence Monitoring Gas Platform Subsidence Monitoring**

**The Use of GNSS GPS Technology for Offshore Oil and** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.73565

Heri Andreas, Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, Irwan Gumilar, Dina A. Sarsito and Dhota Pradipta Dina A. Sarsito and Dhota Pradipta Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Heri Andreas, Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, Irwan Gumilar,

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.73565

#### **Abstract**

Due to oil and gas exploitation, offshore oil and gas platform may experience subsidence. Continuing subsidence may deform the platform infrastructures, adding the risk for any failure on the platform objects. The failure means disaster. Therefore the subsidence information is mandatory for risk assessment and safety requirement. Repeatedly or continuous monitoring of accurate positions on the platform by using global navigation satellite system global positioning system (GNSS GPS) technology may reveal the changing of even small positions which are representing subsidence on the platform. This chapter will be deeply discussed on the use of GNSS GPS technology for offshore oil and gas platform subsidence monitoring, especially in Indonesia, the archipelago country where long baseline between reference station in the land and monitoring station at the sea slightly exists. The capability and especially the high performance of this technology on deriving subsidence information along with data sample of long baseline will be highlighted.

**Keywords:** GNSS GPS, accuracy, oil and gas platform, subsidence, monitoring
