Benefit of Partly Displacement Controlled Condition in Sagbend

Collberg, Leif; Aronsen, Kristoffer H.; Palmer, Andrew; Hahn, G. T.

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“…Thus, this loading scenario may be categorised as partly displacement-controlled rather than typical load-controlled. This is addressed in more detail with an example by Collberg et al, 8 which applied the so-called weak-link principle to address the sensitivity of the pipeline response to variations in bending stiffness in the sag bend for deep water installations.…”

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Deepwater pipelines – status, challenges and future trends

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et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M:

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The demand for energy is steadily increasing and, at least for the coming decades, the world has to rely on oil and gas to address this need. Most of the easiest accessible offshore petroleum reservoirs have been discovered and a great part developed over the last six decades. Thus, development of new oil and gas fields faces a lot of challenges as most of them are in remote areas, in deep waters and/or in areas with extreme environments like the Arctic region. One of the major trends in the offshore petroleum industry points towards deeper waters (e.g. outside West Africa, the Brazilian Pre-Salt developments and in the Gulf of Mexico). This trend also includes increased use of subsea installations instead of platforms, more subsea processing and increased use of pipelines to transport the hydrocarbons to shore or into a pipeline grid. This paper addresses some of the challenges pipeline design, installation and operation may face in deep and ultra-deep waters. The main design challenge is related to the high external pressure that may cause collapse of the pipeline. This potential failure mode is normally dealt with by increasing the pipe wall thickness, but at ultra-deep water depths this may require a very thick walled pipe that becomes very costly, difficult to manufacture and hard to install due to its weight. One approach to overcome this is to improve some of the parameters that determine the collapse resistance by an improved manufacturing process. Other approaches are to ensure a minimum internal pressure is maintained in the pipeline during all phases, or to install a buoyant pipeline that is anchored at a moderate water depth rather that laying on the sea bed.

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