Abstract The dynamic nature of wave loading in the offshore marine environment creates many fatigue design challenges. Process equipment (pressure vessels, pumps, heat exchangers, etc.) has been mounted on marine facilities and ships since the dawn of powered ships. In the last century more and more sophisticated process units have been ship or platform mounted. This began with the offshore exploration, production of oil and gas in the 1930’s and the advent of nuclear propulsion for ships and submarines in the 1950’s. The nuclear propulsion industry has addressed the fatigue issues since the beginning. In the oil and gas industry, offshore marine facilities and ships, in particular, which includes barges, fixed leg platform, semi-submersibles, tension leg platforms, SPARS, jack-up rigs and FPSO, fatigue on process equipment may have been mostly ignored. Today the software used to evaluate marine facilities and ships for dynamic sea states produces fatigue design data (in terms of accelerations and frequencies) that can be used in the evaluation of process equipment. When evaluating pressure vessels, each vessel contains many nozzles, each nozzle is subjected to multiple loading conditions, and it may be a very large task to evaluate each nozzle for the applied cyclic conditions. This paper will present a simplified stress-based method used to evaluate the process nozzles for accumulative fatigue damage. A simple example will be provided showing how to develop the allowable stress and how it is applied. It is possible that this method may also be expanded to cover components other than nozzles.