Use of coiled tubing from floaters and in arctic environments
Master's thesis in Offshore Technology-Marine and Subsea Technology When coiled tubing (CT) operations are performed from floaters there is relative motion between the sea bottom and the topside equipment placed on the vessel deck. Some of the CT equipment is placed in a heave compensated tensi...
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ftunivstavanger:oai:uis.brage.unit.no:11250/183154 2023-06-11T04:09:26+02:00 Use of coiled tubing from floaters and in arctic environments Høllesli, Rosanna 2013-01 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/183154 eng eng University of Stavanger, Norway Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKM/2012; http://hdl.handle.net/11250/183154 offshore teknologi undervannsteknologi coiled tubing heave fatigue arctic risk analysis Master thesis 2013 ftunivstavanger 2023-05-29T16:02:07Z Master's thesis in Offshore Technology-Marine and Subsea Technology When coiled tubing (CT) operations are performed from floaters there is relative motion between the sea bottom and the topside equipment placed on the vessel deck. Some of the CT equipment is placed in a heave compensated tension frame (ACTF) that hangs in a tower structure on the vessel deck to keep constant distance to the well head. The reel placed on the vessel deck keeps constant coil tension during the operation by spooling coil on and off the reel to compensate for vessel motions. The result is that the strains induced in the coil when it is bent over the reel are repeated in each cycle (one cycle=vessel moving up and then down). This reduces the fatigue life of the exposed parts of the coil drastically. This thesis explores the possibility to reduce the fatigue problem by replacing the gooseneck placed on the injector, which traditionally guides the coil, with a guide pipe that goes all the way from the reel to the injector placed in the ACTF. The guide pipe will have a much larger bend radius than the gooseneck and eliminate the need for spooling excess coil on and off the reel to keep constant coil tension when performing CT from floaters, by changing its bend radius with the vessel motions. The guide pipe behavior during 3m heave was guesstimated and the strain behavior was compared with a comparable standard CT case. As the need for reeling coil on and off the reel was eliminated, something that induced a strain variation of up to almost 2% in every cycle, it was expected to get an increase in coil life. The estimated strain variation in each cycle was reduced to under 0.2 % when the guide pipe compensated for the relative motion by changing its bend radius. The result after the simplified calculations where factors as pipe ovality, surface and internal material defects and welds were not accounted for; was an increase in estimated number of tolerated cycles from about 300 to about 2000. In addition to increasing the coil life, the ... Master Thesis Arctic University of Stavanger: UiS Brage Arctic |
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Master's thesis in Offshore Technology-Marine and Subsea Technology When coiled tubing (CT) operations are performed from floaters there is relative motion between the sea bottom and the topside equipment placed on the vessel deck. Some of the CT equipment is placed in a heave compensated tension frame (ACTF) that hangs in a tower structure on the vessel deck to keep constant distance to the well head. The reel placed on the vessel deck keeps constant coil tension during the operation by spooling coil on and off the reel to compensate for vessel motions. The result is that the strains induced in the coil when it is bent over the reel are repeated in each cycle (one cycle=vessel moving up and then down). This reduces the fatigue life of the exposed parts of the coil drastically. This thesis explores the possibility to reduce the fatigue problem by replacing the gooseneck placed on the injector, which traditionally guides the coil, with a guide pipe that goes all the way from the reel to the injector placed in the ACTF. The guide pipe will have a much larger bend radius than the gooseneck and eliminate the need for spooling excess coil on and off the reel to keep constant coil tension when performing CT from floaters, by changing its bend radius with the vessel motions. The guide pipe behavior during 3m heave was guesstimated and the strain behavior was compared with a comparable standard CT case. As the need for reeling coil on and off the reel was eliminated, something that induced a strain variation of up to almost 2% in every cycle, it was expected to get an increase in coil life. The estimated strain variation in each cycle was reduced to under 0.2 % when the guide pipe compensated for the relative motion by changing its bend radius. The result after the simplified calculations where factors as pipe ovality, surface and internal material defects and welds were not accounted for; was an increase in estimated number of tolerated cycles from about 300 to about 2000. In addition to increasing the coil life, the ... |
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Use of coiled tubing from floaters and in arctic environments |
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Use of coiled tubing from floaters and in arctic environments |
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Use of coiled tubing from floaters and in arctic environments |
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Use of coiled tubing from floaters and in arctic environments |
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Use of coiled tubing from floaters and in arctic environments |
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use of coiled tubing from floaters and in arctic environments |
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University of Stavanger, Norway |
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2013 |
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