10 Years of Insights on Fabric Maintenance Offshore The Current State of Offshore Fabric Maintenance Fabric maintenance has historically presented some of the biggest challenges to offshore operations worldwide, and the Gulf of Mexico is no exception to that. While standards like ISO 12944-9 and NORSOK M-501 emerged in the mid to late 90’s as a means to create coating systems that minimize maintenance requirements, they have done little to advance coating technology on that front. This has ultimately left fabric maintenance a stagnant field where problems persist for decades at a time, despite presenting [...]