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Offshore Engineering and Technologies

Offshore Engineering and Technologies is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to advancements in subsea oil and gas technology, including subsea systems engineering, flow assurance, renewable energy strategies, valve technology, deepwater challenges, compression, heating systems, and riser design. The papers discuss technical challenges, innovations, and solutions in the field of subsea technology for oil and gas exploration and production.

  • Subsea
  • Oil and Gas
  • Technology
  • Flow Assurance
  • Renewable Energy
  • Valves
  • Deepwater
  • Compression
  • Heating Systems
  • Risers
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Offshore Engineering and Technologies

Which countries lead Offshore Engineering and Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (511 and 382 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 511 works
  2. 2 United States 382 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 156 works
  4. 4 Norway 130 works
  5. 5 Brazil 126 works
  6. 6 Australia 84 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 82 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 63 works
  9. 9 France 57 works
  10. 10 India 55 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 31.1%United States: 23.2%United Kingdom: 9.5%Norway: 7.9%6 others listed: 28.3%31%largest
China511 · 31.1%United States382 · 23.2%United Kingdom156 · 9.5%Norway130 · 7.9%6 others listed466 · 28.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Offshore Engineering and Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Petrobras (Brazil) publishes the most Offshore Engineering and Technologies research, followed by Petronas (Malaysia) and China University of Petroleum, Beijing.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Petrobras (Brazil)Brazil 52 works
  2. 2 Petronas (Malaysia)Malaysia 47 works
  3. 3 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 40 works
  4. 4 Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)Saudi Arabia 37 works
  5. 5 China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 33 works
  6. 6 Abu Dhabi National Oil (United Arab Emirates)United Arab Emirates 24 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 23 works
  8. 8 China National Offshore Oil Corporation (China)China 19 works
  9. 9 Saipem (Italy)Italy 17 works
  10. 10 Baker Hughes (United States)United States 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Offshore Engineering and Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Offshore Engineering and Technologies include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Frede Blaabjerg.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  4. 4 M. Williams France 134k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Offshore Engineering and Technologies?

The most cited paper in Offshore Engineering and Technologies is "Review of technologies for oil and gas produced water treatment" (A. Fakhru’l‐Razi, Alireza Pendashteh, Luqman Chuah Abdullah et al., 2009), with 2,258 citations. Next come "Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005" (927) and "Carbon Dioxide Corrosion in Oil and Gas Production—A Compendium" (875).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Review of technologies for oil and gas produced water treatment A. Fakhru’l‐Razi, Alireza Pendashteh, Luqman Chuah Abdullah et al. · Journal of Hazardous Materials 20 May 2009 2,258
2 Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 C. Mark Eakin et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 15 Nov 2010 927
3 Carbon Dioxide Corrosion in Oil and Gas Production—A Compendium Milad Kermani, A.R. Khaloo and R. Morshed · CORROSION Aug 2003 875
4 Corrosion problems during oil and gas production and its mitigation Lekan Taofeek Popoola, Alhaji Shehu Grema, G. K. Latinwo et al. · International Journal of Industrial Chemistry 2013 711
5 Experimental investigation of vortex-induced vibration of long marine risers Andrew Trim, Henning Braaten, Halvor Lie et al. · Journal of Fluids and Structures 29 Sep 2005 567
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Offshore Engineering and Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Offshore Engineering and Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Houston (United States) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Stavanger.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 138 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 85 works
  3. 3 HoustonUnited States 76 works
  4. 4 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 57 works
  5. 5 QingdaoChina 51 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 42 works
  7. 7 PerthAustralia 31 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  9. 9 StavangerNorway 29 works
  10. 10 Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. StavangerNO · 29.5 works71×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Offshore Engineering and Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Offshore Engineering and Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Petroleum, East China, Dalian Maritime University and China University of Petroleum, Beijing score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 79.526.8%35.5×33 +26.9%
2Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 60.938.8%12.4×9 +212.7%
3China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 56.318.9%51.8×40 +7.1%
4Dalian University of TechnologyChina 52.428.3%7.8×14 +65.1%
5Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 48.517.2%11.7×13 -27.9%
6Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 46.519.0%9.3×9 +111.5%
7University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 46.110.1%19.7×10 +77.5%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 42.527.8%2.2×13 +96.7%
9Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 41.79.1%14.9×22 +4.7%
10The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 39.910.4%10.4×9 -27.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Offshore Engineering and Technologies, country by country

Is Offshore Engineering and Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014. The fastest-growing topics are Offshore Engineering and Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Offshore Engineering and Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Offshore Engineering and Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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