INNOVATIONS IN SUBSEA DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION

2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 437 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.C. Henry ◽  
A.M. Hyden ◽  
S.L. Williams

Esso Australia Ltd on behalf of the Esso/BHP joint venture, recently completed Australia's first deep- water oil and gas development, Blackback, in 395 m water depth in eastern Bass Strait. Esso used a phased development approach and an innovative development concept to mitigate the effect of reserves uncertainty. The development consists of three wells in daisy-chain formation tied back to the existing Mackerel platform, 23 km distant. The development also used innovative approaches for installation of flexible flowline and umbilical jumpers from the drilling rig, management of hydrates in the production flowline and control system integration.In the same time frame, Esso repaired the failed electro-hydraulic control systems of two 10-year-old subsea wells. The repair program used an innovative approach to fault diagnosis and field work.

2015 ◽  
Vol 667 ◽  
pp. 548-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Zhu ◽  
Yi Geng

The double derrick as an important part of the drilling rig hoisting system in deep sea oil and gas development, its working environment is much more complex than land rigs working environment. Therefore, in order to ensure the quality of drilling, it is very important to analyze the reliability of the deep double derrick structure and its dynamic load characteristic. Based on the ANSYS software to establish finite element model of double derrick, through the static analyzing to the derrick, get the stress distribution of the derrick structure in static action and the derrick stress deformation trend, provided a reference for evaluation of derrick. Selected the calculation method of double derrick overall reliability index, and according to the results of the finite element calculation of static strength calculated the double derrick overall reliability index, compared with the general standard, know that double derrick with high reliability.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farasdaq Muchibbus Sajjad ◽  
Alvin Derry Wirawan ◽  
Dharmawan Alfian Rachmadi ◽  
Wingky Suganda ◽  
Dany Susanto ◽  
...  

Abstract As oil and gas development in Indonesia is shifting towards offshore environment, automation is essential for reducing operating cost. PHE ONWJ as the biggest oil and gas operator in Indonesia develops an automated field operation for gas lift optimization, called PiNTAR. PHE ONWJ has been operating gas lift wells for almost 40 years. The biggest challenge is how to efficiently conduct the business operations in offshore environment. The current regular operations (for instance production monitoring) are conducted manually in monthly basis. It is time-consuming and requires long time for trouble shooting. PiNTAR is designed by PHE ONWJ by integrating smart signal system that can be operated remotely without having to be physically presence at the site. The system is integrated with SCADA sensors, satellite system and fully electronic transmitter that sends production data and related parameters to PHE ONWJ head office to be analyzed 24/7 and mitigated if necessary. PiNTAR has been implemented on more than 50 wells in PHE ONWJ working areas. PHE ONWJ also provides interactive Graphical User Interface based software for monitoring and production adjustment purposes. Standardization is also performed therefore PiNTAR can be implemented in a wider area, with different gas lift situations. PiNTAR enables operators to quickly diagnose flow irregularities ranging from adjusting injected Gas Liquid Ratio (GLR) to minimize annular flow, modify choke openings, dynamic reallocation of injected gas from multiple well systems, and also allows the team to comprehend a significant amount of flow characteristics in gas lifted wells as measurements are taken in a very small-time frame, ranging from minutes to seconds. PiNTAR also enables automated production test that enables the construction of real time Gas Lift Performance Curve, which reduces operator workload and enables dynamic gas lift optimization. Implementation of PiNTAR also reduces HSSE risks for rope jumping operations in offshore and increases efficiency of fuel and personnel timing in platform. The publication presents a success story of gas lift automated optimization using in-house development from PHE ONWJ called PiNTAR. Significant monetary efficiency as well as production increase has been observed during the implementation, encouraging the company to pursue further field automation efforts.


Author(s):  
Wenming Wang ◽  
Shimin Zhang ◽  
Deguo Wang ◽  
Li Lin ◽  
Xiaoxiao Zhu ◽  
...  

The umbilical cable tensioner is a core component of deep-water oil and gas development, and it can lay and recover the umbilical cables to ensure the transmission of communication signals, electric signals or liquid injection. The displacements of tensioner’s clamping hydraulic cylinders, which are not synchronized as the nonlinear electro-hydraulic control system, results in the occurrence of the crawler mechanism’s stuck phenomenon or cause umbilical cable deformation or even cause damage by the extrusion in the umbilical cable’s clamping process. To ensure synchronous clamping, the structure scheme of umbilical cable tensioner, crawler mechanism, clamping mechanism and the hydraulic system of synchronous clamping control is designed in this study. This article also analyzes the function of structure parameters and hydraulic cylinders’ displacement, speed and acceleration, and builds the synchronous clamping mechanical model to reveal crawler mechanism’ clamping law. The study proposes the control strategy including the fast moving stage, the working stage and the pressuring stage based on proportional–integral–derivative control, and analyzes the characteristics of synchronous clamping control by building the synchronous clamping experimental platform in the lab environment. The experimental data shows that the tensioner’s hydraulic cylinders have excellent synchronous clamping performance and the theoretical analysis is feasible. The research has important guiding significance for the tensioner design, and provides theoretical support for the laying of the deep-sea umbilical cables.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
O. P. Trubitsina ◽  
V. N. Bashkin

The article is devoted to the consideration of geopolitical challenges for the analysis of geoenvironmental risks (GERs) in the hydrocarbon development of the Arctic territory. Geopolitical risks (GPRs), like GERs, can be transformed into opposite external environment factors of oil and gas industry facilities in the form of additional opportunities or threats, which the authors identify in detail for each type of risk. This is necessary for further development of methodological base of expert methods for GER management in the context of the implementational proposed two-stage model of the GER analysis taking to account GPR for the improvement of effectiveness making decisions to ensure optimal operation of the facility oil and gas industry and minimize the impact on the environment in the geopolitical conditions of the Arctic.The authors declare no conflict of interest


1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Do Son

This paper describes the results of measurements and analysis of the parameters, characterizing technical state of offshore platforms in Vietnam Sea. Based on decreasing in time material characteristics because of corrosion and local destruction assessment on residual life time of platforms is given and variants for its repair are recommended. The results allowed to confirm advantage of proposed technical diagnostic method in comparison with others and have been used for oil and gas platform of Joint Venture "Vietsovpetro" in South Vietnam.


Author(s):  
P. Sarwanto

Among other obligations imposed under the forestry permit, watershed rehabilitation planting is perceived by the upstream oil and gas sector as the most complex challenge to conquer. Despite its poor track in fulfilling timeline and required result, there are also other challenges to consider, for instance lack of critical location, weather, fire, land tenure, community habit and capability, and cost optimization. In attempt to respond these challenges, an innovation in management system is constructed at PT Pertamina Hulu Mahakam, embracing and tailoring all related challenges, difficulties, and complexities, escalating the activity to be beyond compliance. So that it will be able to deliver more than merely avoid the identified potential risks towards company. The management system, called PIRAMIDA TINGGI (Pemberdayaan Masyarakat untuk Melestarikan Hutan di Dunia demi Ketahanan Energi Nasional), actively involves government, community, and business sector as equilateral triangle that work together to perform watershed rehabilitation planting. Developed using ISO 9001:2015 process approach namely PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act), the PIRAMIDA TINGGI system is in line as well with NAWACITA (President Joko Widodo’s vision, mission and program). To encounter other issue found during field work, this system is equipped as well with another innovation tool named PARIDA, a geospatial mobile-desk top-web application that easily able to map and identify vegetation in real time for further geo-analyzing multi-purposes, to be operated by local community. Full set implementation of this system has benefitted all parties. To Company in form of significant cost efficiency around 13.9 MUSD and 7 days’ faster result delivery besides obligation fulfillment, for others in form of broader advantage of proven sustainability project that has gave contribution to 5P (People, Planet, Prosperity, Partnership and Peace), objectives required by UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030.


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