Sustainable Marine Structures

Research on Publication Trends for Asset Management of Offshore Facilities Between 1992 to 2022 Using Scientometric Analysis

Chiemela Victor Amaechi

Lancaster University

Ahmed Reda

School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia;

Salmia Binti Beddu

Institute of Sustainable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

Daud Bin Mohamed

Institute of Sustainable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

Agusril Syamsir

Institute of Energy Infrastructure, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Putrajaya Campus, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia;

Idris Ahmed Ja’e

Institute of Energy Infrastructure, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Putrajaya Campus, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Civil Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 810107, Nigeria

Abiodun Kolawole Oyetunji

Department of Construction Management, Global Banking School, Devonshire Street North, Manchester M12 6JH, UK; Department of Estate Management, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria; Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36956/sms.v6i1.1016

Received: 11 January 2024; Published: 30 March 2024

Abstract

The demand for monitoring activities has been more evident recently in oil and gas “O & G” activities such as exploration, drilling, production, logistics, or shipping. Consequently, these offshore infrastructures require asset management (or facilities management). This study seeks to understand the research pattern of publications within the domain of asset management in offshore infrastructures with the aim of determining the present state of the field’s research. The paper conducts a scientometric analysis of publications that focus on offshore infrastructures’ asset management published between 1992 and 2022. The employed search query yielded a total of 346 journal articles from the Scopus database and 43 from the Web of Science (WoS) database, respectively. The data analysis of the scientometric investigation explored research authorship, co-occurrence of keywords, number of publications, network mapping, country geographical breakdown, and literature coupling. The paper shows rising interest in monitoring and asset management in the oil and gas industry. It was concluded that the management of these infrastructures requires frequent review with the application of sustainable asset management strategies.

Keywords: Asset Management, Facilities Management, Oil and Gas, Offshore Facility, Scientometric, Bibliometric

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