Performance of catenary mooring system
The number of deep water moored offshore vessels is growing rapidly, and hydrocarbon fields in water depths down to 3000 m are now seriously considered for floating production development. The exploration drilling or offshore floating production units with superior mooring capacity thus become a hig...
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The number of deep water moored offshore vessels is growing rapidly, and hydrocarbon fields in water depths down to 3000 m are now seriously considered for floating production development. The exploration drilling or offshore floating production units with superior mooring capacity thus become a highly demand factor. Concerning on this booming drilling activity has driven this research to be carried out to analyze the mooring system requirement as well as the behaviour of the floating structure when experiencing external forces such as wave and current forces. The purpose of this study is to investigate the technical as well as performance analysis of the catenary mooring system from the perspective of a Spar platform drilling unit. The main part comprises an analysis and discussion on the mooring configuration, material and weight, length of mooring line required to resist the environmental loads and movement of the platform. This study will utilized the finite element approach and the analysis will be carried out by using M-File programming from MATLAB software package. The endeavour of this paper is to develop theoretical methods for evaluation of Spar oil platform response with catenary mooring lines and to carry out performance analysis of the catenary mooring lines between static and dynamic mooring system. The performance of mooring system is determined as the ability of the system to establish superior station-keeping capabilities for the floating platform, so to ensure that horizontal excursions of the platform are not so large as to cause damage to the production risers or the sub-sea equipment and subsequently enabling production and export risers to remain connected for the life of the field. |
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my-utm-ep.100182018-06-13T07:08:05Z Performance of catenary mooring system 2009-05 Abd. Samad, Faisal Ikram TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery VM Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering The number of deep water moored offshore vessels is growing rapidly, and hydrocarbon fields in water depths down to 3000 m are now seriously considered for floating production development. The exploration drilling or offshore floating production units with superior mooring capacity thus become a highly demand factor. Concerning on this booming drilling activity has driven this research to be carried out to analyze the mooring system requirement as well as the behaviour of the floating structure when experiencing external forces such as wave and current forces. The purpose of this study is to investigate the technical as well as performance analysis of the catenary mooring system from the perspective of a Spar platform drilling unit. The main part comprises an analysis and discussion on the mooring configuration, material and weight, length of mooring line required to resist the environmental loads and movement of the platform. This study will utilized the finite element approach and the analysis will be carried out by using M-File programming from MATLAB software package. The endeavour of this paper is to develop theoretical methods for evaluation of Spar oil platform response with catenary mooring lines and to carry out performance analysis of the catenary mooring lines between static and dynamic mooring system. The performance of mooring system is determined as the ability of the system to establish superior station-keeping capabilities for the floating platform, so to ensure that horizontal excursions of the platform are not so large as to cause damage to the production risers or the sub-sea equipment and subsequently enabling production and export risers to remain connected for the life of the field. 2009-05 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/10018/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/10018/1/FaisalIkramAbdMFKM2009.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering The Specialist Committee on Deep Water Mooring, Final Report and Recommendations to the 22nd ITTC, 1996. Fylling, I.J., 1992, “Deep Water Mooring”, FPS-2000 Mooring and Positioning, Part 1.7 Deep Water Mooring, MARINTEK Report No. 513003.00.07, Trondheim. Watts, S., 1999, “Hybrid Hydrodynamic Modelling”, Journal of Offshore Technology, The Institute of Marine Engineers, London, February 1999, pp. 13-17. Buchner, B., Wichers, J.E.W. and de Wilde, J.J., 1999, “Features of the State-of-the-art Deepwater Offshore Basin”, Proc. of the 31st Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, OTC 10841, 12 pp. Lee, D.H., Joo, S.M., Choi, H.S., Song, M.J. and Kim, Y.S., 1998, “Control Performance of a Turret-Moored Vessel Assisted by Dynamic Positioning System”, Proc. of the International Conference on Control Application in Marine Systems, CAMS'98, pp. 107-112. Huang, S. and Vassalos, D., 1993, “A Semi-Analytic Treatment of Three-Dimensional Statics of Marine Cables”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 409-420. Bergdahl, L.M. and Rask, I., 1987, “Dynamic vs. Quasi-Static Design of Catenary Mooring System”, Proc. of the 19th Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, OTC 5530, Vol. 3, pp. 397-404. Fylling, I.J., Ottera, G.O. and Gottliebsen, F., 1987, “Optimization and Safety Consideration in the Design of Station-Keeping Systems”, Proc. PRADS’87 Symposium, Trondheim, Norway. Mavrakos, S.A., Papazoglou, V.J. and Triantafyllou, M.S. (1989), “An Investigation into the Feasibility of Deep Water Anchoring Systems”, Proc. of the 8th Int. OMAE Conference, OMAE’89, The Hague, Vol. 1, pp. 683-689. H.O. Berteaux, 1972, Buoy Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_normal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_normal Bhattacharyya.R, 1978, “Dynamics of Marine Vehicles”, John Wiley & Sons, New York A.K.Argawal, A.K. Jain, Dynamic behavior of offshore spar platforms under regular sea waves Minoo H. Patel and Joel A. Witz, 1991, Compliant Offshore Structures, Butterworth Heinemann. S.Chakrabarti, 2005, Handbook of Offshore Engineering, Vol 1, Elsevier. John B. Herbich, Editor, 1992, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Vol 3, Gulf Publishing Company. MATLAB Student Version, Computation, Visualization and Programming, Vol 6, 2001, The MathWorks Inc. Recommended Practice for Design and Analysis of Station Keeping Systems for Floating Structures, API Recommended Practice 2SK, 2nd Edition, 1997 |