Maintenance Integrity: Managing Flange Inspections on Aging Offshore Production Facilities

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Chandima Ratnayake ◽  
S. M. S. M. K. Samarakoon ◽  
Tore Markeset
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Pipeline System ◽  
Production Facility ◽  
Inspection Planning ◽  
Offshore Production ◽  
Considerable Portion ◽  
Operating Company ◽  
Production Facilities

The flange inspection associated with piping on offshore production facilities is a time-consuming activity as the flanges should physically be opened in order to perform close visual inspections. In order to sustain maintenance integrity, a number of inspections are allocated for a subsystem based on factors such as: condition of the medium flowing in the line, risk perception of the pipeline system, and the date of installation. Inspection teams recommend inspections based on the data, experience, and exposure to offshore production facilities, as well as the intuition and intentions of those individuals involved with inspection planning and with carrying out implementation during the preventive maintenance shutdowns. However, there is a tendency for the operating company representatives to raise queries with the contractor company representatives about the number of flanges to be opened during the preventive maintenance shutdown as flange inspection consumes a considerable portion of time and resources. Hence, it is vital to interpret sensibly the importance of recommending close visual inspections for flanges if the maintenance integrity is to be sustained. This study focuses on analyzing the historical data limited to flanges on flowlines over the last fifteen years. The final results provide a snapshot of the present status of the flanges of the production facility.

Unified Approach to Risk-Based Inspection Planning for Offshore Production Facilities

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Havbro Faber ◽  
Daniel Straub ◽  
Jean Goyet
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Inspection Planning ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Component Level ◽  
Acceptance Criteria ◽  
Offshore Production ◽  
Generic Modeling ◽  
Production Facilities

Based on new methodological developments in the area of risk-based inspection planning (RBI) for structural components subject to fatigue degradation, the present paper presents a unified approach to risk-based inspection planning for offshore facilities comprising components and systems of both the structural and process type. Suggestions are given for the formulation of acceptance criteria on component level based on overall facility acceptance criteria in terms of risk to personnel, environmental risks and economical risks. The methodology facilitates a generic modeling of fatigue and corrosion degradation for both structural and process type components. Furthermore, special considerations are given to the important aspect of updating of inspection plans when degradation has been observed. The different aspects of RBI for steel components subject to fatigue and corrosion degradation are illustrated on an example considering RBI for the components of a tripod well-head platform.

Reliability Analysis of Offshore Production Facilities Under Arctic Conditions Using Reliability Data From Other Areas

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Barabadi
Keyword(s):  
Reliability Analysis ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Accelerated Failure Time Model ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Reliability Data ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Offshore Production ◽  
The Arctic Region ◽  
Production Facilities

The development of offshore energy resources involves highly complex and extensive technological processes. Reliability evaluation of offshore production facilities provides essential information in the design and operation phase. Historical reliability data play an important role in reliability analysis, and as such data reflect the effect of influencing factors that production facilities have experienced during their life cycle. Due to there being less offshore activity in the Arctic region compared with other areas, there is a lack of data and little experience available regarding operational equipment. In contrast to the Arctic region, oil and gas companies have a lot of experience and information related to the design and operation of offshore production facilities in the other parts of the world. Using this type of data and information, collected from similar systems but under different operational conditions, in design processes for the Arctic region may lead to incorrect design. This may increase health, safety, and environmental (HSE) risk or operating and maintenance costs. This paper develops a methodology for the application of the accelerated failure time model (AFT) to predict the reliability of equipment to be used in the Arctic region based on the available data. In the methodology used here, the available data is assumed to reflect the behavior of the equipment under low stress conditions, and using the AFT models the reliability of equipment in the Arctic environment, which represents high stress, is predicted. An illustrative example is used to demonstrate how the methodology can be applied in a real case.

Testing of Acoustic Emission Technology to Detect Cracks and Corrosion in the Marine Environment

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Ge Wang ◽  
Michael Lee ◽  
Chris Serratella ◽  
Stanley Botten ◽  
Sam Ternowchek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Pipeline System ◽  
Inspection Planning ◽  
Structural Degradation ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
Acoustic Emission Technology

Real-time monitoring and detection of structural degradation helps in capturing the structural conditions of ships. The latest nondestructive testing (NDT) and sensor technologies will potentially be integrated into future generations of the structural integrity management program. This paper reports on a joint development project between Alaska Tanker Company, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), and MISTRAS. The pilot project examined the viability of acoustic emission technology as a screening tool for surveys and inspection planning. Specifically, testing took place on a 32-year-old double-hull Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) trade tanker. The test demonstrated the possibility of adapting this technology in the identification of critical spots on a tanker in order to target inspections. This targeting will focus surveys and inspections on suspected areas, thus increasing efficiency of detecting structural degradation. The test has the potential to introduce new inspection procedures as the project undertakes the first commercial testing of the latest acoustic emission technology during a tanker's voyage.

scholarly journals Estimating GHG Emission Level from Oil and Gas Offshore Production Facility

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 09004
Author(s):  
Satya Pinem ◽  
Mahawan Karuniasa ◽  
Chairil Abdini
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
American Petroleum Institute ◽  
Fuel Combustion ◽  
Emission Sources ◽  
Production Facility ◽  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Offshore Production ◽  
Tier 1

Oil and gas (O&G) production activities emits greenhouse gases (GHG) which must be well estimated to improve accountability and formulating efficient mitigation. The Indonesia’s GHG emission reported thru Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) was estimated by Tier-1 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) method, while the O&G company adopts different methodology. This leads to asynchronous GHG emission contribution of this industry to national GHG emission. This paper aims to estimate the GHG inventory from O&G offshore production facility by using American Petroleum Institute (API) Compendium Methodology and compare it with Tier-1 IPCC Methodology. It found that GHG emission estimated by API method is significantly lower than IPCC method. Both methods shown fuel combustion sources are the dominant. GHG emission sources from fuel combustion and flaring have been well identified, but emission sources from venting and fugitive need to be improved. Moreover this study identified that to have more accurate national GHG inventory, the GHG calculation method might be different for each industry segment. This evaluation could improve the future national GHG inventory and as reference for the industry. National emission factors database for O&G industry segment is highly suggested to be developed.

Damage to offshore production facilities by corrosive microbial biofilms

2018 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
pp. 2525-2533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrien Vigneron ◽  
Ian M. Head ◽  
Nicolas Tsesmetzis
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Biofilms ◽  
Offshore Production ◽  
Production Facilities

Optimal Preventive Maintenance Policy Under a Budget Constraint

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inderjeet Singh ◽  
Elmira Popova ◽  
Ernie Kee
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Integer Program ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Finite Time Horizon ◽  
Preventive Maintenance Policy ◽  
Operating Company

We design an optimal preventive maintenance policy for a system of N items that minimizes the total expected maintenance cost. We assume that the budget for preventive maintenance is limited and constrained. The problem has a finite time horizon and we consider constant inter-preventive maintenance times for every item. The resulting nonlinear optimization problem is reformulated as a binary integer program and computation results are presented on a real data set from South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company in Bay City, Texas, USA.

Integrated Approach for Big Offshore Production Facility Construction Projects

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A.R. da Silva ◽  
J.A.V. de Castro Galarza ◽  
J.E. Loureiro ◽  
J.V. Martins
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Production Facility ◽  
Offshore Production ◽  
Facility Construction
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