Offshore Pipelines: Design, Installation, and Maintenance

ISBN-13: 9780123979490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 400 str.

PhD Guo

Opis

The development of oil and gas fields offshore requires specialized pipeline equipment. The structures must be strong enough to with stand the harshest environments, and ensure that production is not interrupted and remains economically feasible. However, recent events in the Gulf of Mexico have placed a new importance on maintenance and reliability. A new section; Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), introduces the subject of maintenance, written by Tian Ran Lin, Queensland University of Technology, and Yong Sun, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering. Two of the main objectives of CBM is maximizing reliability while preventing major or minor equipment malfunction and minimizing maintenance costs. In this new section, the authors deal with the multi-objective condition based maintenance optimization problem. CBM provides two major advantages: (1) an efficient approach for weighting maintenance objectives, and (2) a method for specifying physical methods for achieving those objectives. Maintenance cost and reliability objectives are calculated based on proportional hazards model and a control limit CBM replacement policy. Written primarily for engineers and management personnel working on offshore and deepwater oil and gas pipelines, this book covers the fundamentals needed to design, Install, and commission pipeline projects. This new section along with a thorough update of the existing chapters represents a 30% increase in information over the previous edition.

• Covers offshore maintenance and maintenance support system
• Provides the fundamentals needed to design, Install, and commission pipeline project
• Methods and tools to deliver cost effective maintenance cost and system reliability
• New section on Condition-Based Maintenance written by Tian Ran Lin, Queensland University of Technology, and Yong Sun, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering (yong.sun@csiro.au)

Recenzje

"The authors are the most respected names in the area of designing, installing, testing, and operating submarine pipelines.It is a useful book for engineers and developers challenged with bringing oil and gas onshore. I would recommend that if you work in the offshore pipeline industry, you have this practical reference available." --Saeid Mokhatab, Chairman of Natural Gas Engineering Editorial Advisory Board

Spis treści

PrefaceList of SymbolsUnit Conversion Factors

1. Introduction

Part I: Pipeline Design

2. General Design Information3. Diameter and Wall Thickness4. Hydrodynamic Stability of Pipelines5. Pipeline Span6. Operating Stresses7. Pipeline Riser Design8. Pipeline External Corrosion Protection9. Pipeline Insulation10. Introduction to Flexible Pipelines

Part II: Pipeline Installation

11. Pipeline Installation Methods12. Installation Bending Stress Control13. Pipeline On-Bottom Stability Control

Part III: Pipeline Commissioning and Operations

14. Pipeline Testing and Pre-commissioning15. Flow Assurance16. Pigging Operations

Part IV: Condition Based Maintenance

17. Concepts in Condition Based Maintenance

18. Vibration in pipeline condition monitoring and assessment

19. Strategies of pipeline maintenance

Appendices

Appendix A: Gas-Liquid Multiphase Flow in PipelineAppendix B: Steady and Transient Solutions for Pipeline TemperatureAppendix C: Strength De-Rating of Old Pipelines

Index

O autorze

Boyun Guo is a Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the Petroleum Engineering Department and Director of the Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems (COPS) of the Energy Institute of Louisiana (EIL). He has 40 years of work experience in the oil and gas industry and academia. He is the principal author of 11 books and author/coauthor of over 150 research papers. He holds a BS degree in Engineering Science from Daqing Petroleum Institute in China, MS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, and a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Ali Ghalambor, P.E. is currently an international consultant with more than 45 years of industrial and academic experience. He served as the API Endowed Professor, Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department, and Director of the Energy Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.