Investigation of Horizontal Axis Wind Tower Installation on Existing Offshore Platforms

Jackets are the most common offshore structures used to extract oil and natural gas in relative low water depth specially, in Adriatic Sea. Most of them have been built in the last 50 years. When the offshore resources run out, these structures must be displaced to another area containing underground resources or removed in the case of reaching to the design life. However, another solution can be investigated: changing the future working life of these platforms by introducing renewable energy and converting them into offshore wind towers. This thesis intends to examine the possibility of changing existing offshore structures used for gas extraction to horizontal axis wind turbine.