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Higher Quality Inspection of Deepwater Flowlines will Save Costs On Future Projects Crondall Energy Subsea 17 June 2015
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Higher Quality Inspection of Deepwater Flowlines will Save Costs On Future Projects
Ø Why is Survey Quality important? Ø What do we mean by Good Quality? Ø Integrity Monitoring Lessons Ø Design Lessons for Future Projects Ø Potential Cost Savings?
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Why is survey quality important?
Pipelines can move: Ø Lateral motion
• Lateral buckling • Route curve pullout
Ø Axial motion • Pipeline walking • Expansion at ends and
into lateral buckles
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Ø Lateral buckling • Railway tracks • Pipelines
Ø Walking: • Stones in Death valley • Global pipeline movement
Measurement of pipe-walking
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Pipelines have failed due to lateral buckling, Ø 3 involved full bore rupture Ø 1 involved premature abandonment
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Lateral Buckling
Side-scan sonar image of lateral buckle
ROV Camera
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Engineered Buckle Initiators
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Snake Lay
Sleepers (vertical upset)
Buoyancy (local weight reduction)
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Pipeline Walking
Pipe-walking occurs during shutdown/restart cycling, when: Ø Tension is applied by riser, Ø Seabed slope along route Ø Liquids and gas segregate at shutdown Ø Steep thermal transients in operation
Pipe walking has caused several pipeline failures Ø Tie-in spool failures due to overload, other spools close to failure Ø Several lines have been rock dumped or anchored to prevent further walking
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Walking may be controlled by the use of pipeline anchors Several deepwater projects have installed pipeline anchors Ø Typically suction piles with a capacity of 50 to 350 tons
Key drivers in the layout of a field development. But high levels of tension at shutdown can be a concern: Ø Route-curve becoming unstable and pulling out – one observed Ø Buckles pulling-straight & not reforming – observed in the field
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Pipeline walking control
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Floating Production System
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Pipe-soil Interaction
Pipe soil response is the most significant uncertainty in design for lateral buckling, pipeline walking, route-curve pullout and flowline anchoring
Significant research effort to evaluate, quantify and understand the complex pipe-soil interaction mechanisms.
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Why is pipe-soil resistance important
Axial pipe-soil resistance affects: Ø Maximum axial force in the pipeline
• Influencing buckle formation • Compression at crossings & in-line
structures • Shutdown tension
Ø Pipe displacement • Pipe-end expansion • Feed-in to lateral buckles • Pipeline walking rate
Lateral pipe-soil resistance affects: Ø Lateral restraint for buckle formation Ø Route-curve stability under axial tension Ø Lateral buckle bending loads Ø Cyclic buckle loading due to soil berms. Aim to bound the pipe-soil resistance & ensure that design is acceptable throughout potential design envelope.
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Large scale pipe-soil interaction tests
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Axial test set up
Lateral test set up
NGI Oslo
Large-scale tests explored axial & lateral pipe-soil resistance in various soils
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Fugro SMARTPIPE® in-situ testing
Deepwater PSI testing in-situ on seabed in West Africa and Australia
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Small-scale lateral pipe-soil tests in centrifuge
University of Western Australia
Small-scale lateral pipe-soil tests in a centrifuge, Employed on many current projects
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Laboratory versus Field data
Ø Laboratory learnings from PSI testing has been invaluable
Ø Field data from observation of real behaviour is incredibly valuable but often not realised
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Inspection Surveys & Site Investigations
Integrity monitoring is essential for laterally buckling & pipeline walking 1. Vital to safe long-term performance and system integrity 2. Of significant benefit to future projects
Ø Advances understanding Ø Calibrate models used in design
Good Quality Data Required- along the whole pipeline: 1. Soils Data 2. Bathymetric data 3. Embedment data & cross profiles 4. OOS (Out-of-Straightness) 5. Digital Terrain Mapping 6. End Expansions 7. Operating Conditions (past & at time of survey)
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soil berm
mudline
estimate / measure extent of lateral displacement
soil disturbance
Jayson et al OPT 2008 EXAMPLES…..
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Soils shear strength data - typical
Shear strength data bounded with little recognition of near surface variability
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Region of interest
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Soil shear-strength profiles – good quality
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Weak slough at the mudline, very low shear strength < 0.5kPa Not to be ignored
Remoulded shear strength measured T-bar (10 cycles) Defines pipe embedment
Stronger crust below mudline, common to many deepwater sites Provides lateral resistance
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Embedment Data
Near and Far embedment data Usually provided in 5-point file
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Embedment survey data – Good Quality
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Good quality data
Poor quality data Far embedment error
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OOS (out-of-straightness) data
Survey Data Review: Ø Post lay (as-laid) and Post Hydrotest (as-built) data compared Ø Large number of lateral OOS features identified post-hydrotest Ø Question: Do these features indicate on-bottom buckling during hydrotest?
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Potential buckle
As-built 3D swathe data: No evidence of sediment disturbance – no buckling!
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Use of the Gyro Heading Data
Poor quality As-built (operational) survey Ø Gyro data used to calculate revised Eastings and Northings for OOS Ø “Gyro” dataset compares well to as-laid data; removing large lateral offsets from the
original E-N data Ø Excellent agreement between gyro data and as-laid data, confirming that operational
data is very poor and that suspected buckles are not there
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As-built OOS data quality appears very poor and is unreliable
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Data Acquisition by ROV
VEHICLE (Position)
ALTITUDE DEPTH
DVL INS
Physical contact, or MBES
PIPELINE POSITION
SONAR (anti-collision, but also feature identification)
PIPELINE RECOGNITION (Pipe Tracker)
• Horizontal positioning determined using USBL, INS, DVL, MBES • Vertical (sub-surface) positioning determined using MBES, Digiquartz Depth Sensor
USBL
VESSEL
DGPS
LINE OF POSITION (full transponder array or
‘sparse’ array)
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Abbreviations DGPS - Digital Geographic Positioning System DVL – Doppler Velocity Log USBL – Ultra-Short Baseline INS – Inertial Navigation System MBES – Multi-beam Echo-Sounder
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ROV Visual Survey
Useful to observe buckle locations and soil berms Impossible to assess bending curvature and load in buckle
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Side-scan survey - Lateral Buckle on Sleeper
Side scan survey introduces parallax errors in amplitude - pipe raised off seabed Very difficult to accurately assess buckle curvature
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Greater Plutonio – West Africa Block 18
Project led the way in addressing pipe-soil interaction by: Ø Collecting high quality shear-strength
data in the field , including remoulded shear strength using cyclic T-bar tests, to a depth of about 2m.
Ø An extensive range of axial and lateral pipe-soil tests to support design, including tests at large-scale using soil collected from the field.
Ø Effective monitoring of the pipelines in operation, including high-quality (and repeatable) positional surveys and high-resolution terrain mapping
Sadly - many projects fail to do any of this!
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Remnant of berm from hydrotest
Migration of mode-shape – Initiation by sleeper
Jayson et al OPT 2008
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Deepwater surveys overcome the challenge of achieving high positional accuracy in deep water by using fully calibrated INS (inertial navigation) High resolution digital terrain imagery is used to assess soil berm response & displacement history Behaviour surprises: Ø Buckle shape migration and interaction
between lateral buckling and pipe walking Ø Planned buckles not forming, rogue
(unplanned) buckles forming Ø Buckle mode shapes differing from design
and changing with operating cycles Ø Slugging induced fatigue at sleepers and
tie-ins Ø Higher rates of pipeline walking due to
liquid hold up
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Integrity monitoring surveys & feedback
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Watson, Bruton & Sinclair OTC 21724 (2011)
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High Resolution Digital Terrain Mapping
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Urthaler et al OMAE 2012
High quality survey of buckles with buoyancy in the Gulf of Mexico. High Resolution Digital Terrain Mapping, showing clear soil berms & pipe curvature
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Pipeline Buckling – Prediction & Actual
Compare actual buckles with predicted buckles for a range of axial friction Observed increasing buckles with time! Valuable lesson that axial friction is increasing with time Rate of increase (dependent on operating cycles and duration) needs quantifying
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Pipeline Walking – Prediction & Actual
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Hill & White ISFOG 2015
Compare actual walk with predicted walk based on end expansion for a range of axial friction Valuable lesson that axial friction is increasing with time Rate of increase needs quantifying
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Cost Savings from Lessons Learned
Observed response on operating systems leads to: Ø Improved system integrity Ø Narrowing of design envelope
Major potential cost saving potential for current projects: Anchors: Ø Flowlines with three 100t anchors to control walking – at ~$2m per anchor Ø Reduction to one anchor per flowline is likely – saving $4m per flowline
Buckle Initiators Ø Flowlines with three or four buoyancy initiators – at ~$1m per initiator Ø Reduction to two to three initiators – saving $1m per flowline Ø Some past projects had initiators installed – experience shows probably not needed
No good measurements of pipeline expansion – just snap-shot in time Ø Continuous measurement possible but not implemented on projects Ø Retroactive measurement on walking pipelines not effective – poor quality monitoring Ø Key lessons not learned fast enough!
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Higher Quality Inspection of Deepwater Flowlines will Save Costs On Future Projects
Ø Good Quality Surveys are Important! Ø How do we maintain Good Quality? Ø Significant Integrity Monitoring Lessons Ø Many Design Lessons for Future Projects Ø Significant Potential Cost Savings
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References
Ø Bruton, D. A. S. & Carr, M., 2011. Overview of the SAFEBUCK JIP. OTC 21671 ed. Houston: Offshore Technology Conference.
Ø Bruton, D. A. S., Sinclair, F. & Carr, M., 2010. Lessons Learned From Observing Walking of Pipelines with Lateral Buckles, Including New Driving Mechanisms and Updated Analysis Models. Houston, Offshore Technology Conference.
Ø Bruton, D. A. S., White, D. J., Hill, A. & Langford, T. L., 2009. Techniques for the assessment of pipe-soil interaction forces for future deepwater developments. Houston, Proc. Offshore Technology Conference.
Ø Bruton, D.A.S., Carr, M. White, D. (2007). The Influence of Pipe-Soil Interaction on Lateral Buckling and Walking of Pipelines – The SAFEBUCK JIP. Sixth International Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics Conference - Society of Underwater Technology. P133.
Ø Jayson, D. et al., 2008. Greater Plutonio Project – Subsea Flowline Design and Performance. Amsterdam: Offshore Pipeline Technology Conference.
Ø Watson, R., Sinclair, F., Bruton, D.A.S., 2011. SAFEBUCK: Operational Integrity of Deepwater Flowlines. Offshore Technology Conference. OTC 21724.
Ø Urthaler, Y., Watson, R., Davis, J. 2012 Lateral buckling of deepwater pipelines in operation. . International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. OMAE-83949
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