CSA Preface
This is the first edition of CSA ISO 35106, Petroleum and natural gas industries — Arctic operations — Metocean, ice, and seabed data, which is an adoption without modification of the identically titled ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Standard 35106 (first edition, 2017-12). At the time of publication, ISO 35106:2017 is available from ISO in English only. CSA Group will publish the French version when it becomes available from ISO.
For brevity, this Standard will be referred to as “CSA ISO 35106” throughout.
Standards development within the Canadian Arctic operations sector is harmonized with international standards development.
This Standard was reviewed for Canadian adoption by the harmonized Canadian Advisory Committee and CSA Technical Committee to ISO TC 67/SC 8, Arctic Operations. This Standard has been formally approved by the CSA Technical Committee on Arctic Operations, under the jurisdiction of the CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Natural Resources.
This Standard has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group.
Scope
This document specifies requirements and provides recommendations and guidance for the collection, analysis and presentation of relevant physical environmental data for activities of the petroleum and natural gas industries in arctic and cold regions. Activities include design and operations, which involve planning and actual execution.
Reference to arctic and cold regions in this document is deemed to include both the Arctic and other locations characterized by low ambient temperatures and the presence or possibility of sea ice, icebergs, shelf ice, glaciers, icing conditions, persistent snow cover, frozen surfaces of lakes and rivers, localized and rapidly changing weather systems and/or permafrost.
This document outlines requirements for a range of different operations that have been or are presently being undertaken and for existing design concepts. This document can also be used for other operations and new design concepts in arctic and cold regions as long as it is recognized that all data requirements are not necessarily addressed.
