Marine Risks during Installation of

Deepwater Projects

Marine Risks Workshop

OGP Forum London
Presentation March 19,2003
 Request to HMC

Perception
Inventory of risks related to deepwater risk-likely
hood are
projects quite
different
based on current best practice and
identification of key risks
Risk to contractor
and Risk to operator
the gaps in codes/tools/practices

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 Contents of this presentation

„ Heerema Group & HMC‘s Deepwater Experience

„ Best Practice Installation procedures
„ Risks during installation
„ Risks induced prior to installation
„ Risk mitigation

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 This presentation

„ Heerema Group & HMC‘s Deepwater Experience

„ Best Practice Installation procedures
„ Risks during installation
„ Risks induced prior to installation
„ Risk mitigation

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 Heerema Group Divisions

FIELD DEVELOPMENT ONSHORE & OFFSHORE OFFSHORE

CONCEPTUAL & OFFSHORE HEAVY TRANSPORT
DETAILED ENGINEERING STEEL TRANSPORT & INSTALLATION
CONSTRUCTION
 Typical Deepwater Field Dev’t
Floating Facility
Export pipe lines

Jumper PLET moorings

Flowlines
In line sled
assemblies

SCR’s

manifolds

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 Deepwater Experience area’s

Mobile
U.S.A. 20

New Orleans
Houston

80
Fourchon
40

20 VK
Horn Mountain
Matterhorn
Nakika / Okeanos
40 0
50 00
10 Thunder Hors e
Prince MC

Corpus Christi 50 0 0
15 0

00
20
Gunnis on Hols tein Marco Polo
10 0
0 Atlantis
EB GB Mad Dog GC AV
0
15 0
0
25 0

20 00
AC KC WR LU
20

30 0
0

35
80

00
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 The presentation

„ Heerema Group & HMC‘s Deepwater Experience

„ Best Practice Installation procedures
„ Risks during installation
„ Risks induced prior to installation
„ Risk mitigation

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 Typical Deepwater Installation
scope & Installation procedures
Fly-jib
1. Moorings
2. Facilities
3. Pipelines, in- J-lay + A&R
line sled system
assemblies &
SCR’s
MLD winch

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 Typical Deepwater Installation
scope & Installation procedures

1. Moorings
2. Facilities
3. Pipelines, in-line sled assemblies & SCR’s

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 Mooring installation

BP VASTAR Stud less Chain:

HORN SSW: 800-930 ft
3500 ft 5 ¾”
MOUNTAIN
SSW: 5”
3500 ft
5”

Stud less Chain:

250 ft
5 ¾”

Suction pile:
18 ft OD
90-95 ft long
200 sht

Risk of rotation of Risk of damaging

pile /Risk of sheathing of wire
damage to
connections
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 Best Practice BP Vastar
Horn Mountain

•Damage free handling

•Safe working environment

17 days No LTI’s No Damage

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 SUCTION PILE UPENDING

Risk drivers

Very high
installation
forces

Handling of
many
components
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 Overboarding the connection
between Upper and Lower SSWs
Risk drivers

Damage to
sheathing of
wire

Manual
Handling

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 Typical Deepwater Installation
scope & Installation procedures

1. Moorings
2. Facilities
3. Pipelines, in-line sled assemblies & SCR’s

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 Experience
Topsides Installation – Dual crane capacity

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 Lifting Topsides on Floaters

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 Relative Motions Two Floaters

Risk drivers

Very high
installation
forces
Coupling of
two main
bodies
effects DP
stability

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Deepwater Installation
Risky business?
 Typical Deepwater Installation
scope & Installation procedures

1. Moorings
2. Facilities
3. Pipelines, in-line sled assemblies & SCR’s

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 Deepwater Pipeline
installation
Risk drivers
• Heavy walled pipe
Very high
• Ability to hold flooded pipe installation
• Pipe-in-pipe flowlines forces

• Export lines
Fatigue
• SCR’s > 20” damage
• In line sled assemblies On-bottom
• No free spans on bottom configuration
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 Tensioning system

High pipe tensions:

don’t rely on friction!
J-lay collar /
buckle
arrestors
provide
“locking” of
pipeline

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 Handling sled assemblies

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Installing in-line sled
assemblies
Risk drivers

Very high
installation
forces

Handling of
many
components
by many
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cranes
 Controlled Lowering using
buoys
WSA Installation, OD Transition
Risk
drivers
BALDER BALDER
BALDER

U/W weight
Buoy
changes
WSA

Handling
capabilities

Two
vessels
Bring WSA into tower using PS Install WSA in tower and
Install 21 hex joints (28").
working
crane jib. prepare for buoy installation.

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together
 Pipeline connections

Risk
drivers

Mis -
alignment

Handling
capabilities

Pre-installed
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 This presentation

„ Heerema Group & HMC‘s Deepwater Experience

„ Best Practice Installation procedures
„ Risks during installation
„ Risks induced prior to installation
„ Risk mitigation

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 Environmental Risk

„ Liability to third parties for bodily injury or property

damage
„ Liability to governments (eg. Clean-up of spills or
removal of pollutants

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 Early involvement installation
Risks during installation
contractor to match design with
capacities&methods
Risks Mitigation
„ High loads and high installation „ Equipment preparation/JSA/Trials
forces => handling of large Design to consider installation
structures and components
HAZOP/HAZID/JSA => toolbox
„ Damage to pipelines, piles and
talks ; eqm’t & provisions
structures due to hydrostatic
pressure „ J-Lay method + collars; no plastic
„ Schedule risk , duration of deformations
installation „ Multi Role vessels , works
„ Orientation and geometry of preparation
pipelines , anchor piles and „ J-lay and crane capacities
structures on seabed
„ Early weather data collection
„ Weather risk in new areas
„ Integration of subsea components
„ Connection and testing of sbsea
components
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 This presentation

„ Heerema Group & HMC‘s Deepwater Experience

„ Best practice Installation procedures
„ Risks during installation
„ Risks induced prior to installation
„ Risk mitigation

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 Risks induced prior to
installation
“Perceived” Cost Reductions
Field development scenario
Design

Procurement

(Pre-) Fabrication

Transport

Installation

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 Risks of Perceived Cost
reductions
a) Capital-efficient developments
b) Competing solutions
c) Improvement of cash-out
schedules
d) Personnel reductions ; HR issues
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Design driven to minimise
cost => less material =>
RISK OF COLLAPSE for eg
pipeline or piles
Operators drive cost to the
boneÎ Contractors incur
LARGE losses => RIP
Delay of delivery goods,
equipment and services till
just NOT in time
=>Operators buy problems
Major loss of expertise ; not
attracting younger
engineers
 Competing solutions

„ Operators seem to consider deepwater installation

contracting as a “commodity” market whereby the
lowest bidder stands a fair chance of getting the job
„ Deepwater is still in the experimental & development
stage requiring a large up-front effort in engineering
and works preparation AND equipment
Operators drive cost to
the boneÎ Contractors
incur LARGE losses =>
RIP

„ Mitigation by co-operation models whereby each is

responsible for the risk they can manage

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 This presentation

„ Heerema Group & HMC‘s Deepwater Experience

„ Best practice Installation procedures
„ Risks induced prior to installation
„ Risks during installation
„ Risk mitigation

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 Deepwater arena
Risk Mitigation
•Retain personnel
•Lessons learned program
Pocketsize booklet

•Job Safety Analysis

for on deck use
Project Job Safety
Procedures Analysis Toolbox
(HAZID’s) (JSA’s) Talks
Stop the Work •Stop the work culture
Heerema Safety Management System

•Capability breakthroughs
•Versatile and stable base
•Optimized for deep water fields
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Management System

Pocketsize booklet
for on deck use

Project Job Safety

Toolbox
Procedures Analysis
Talks
(HAZID’s) (JSA’s)

Stop the Work

Heerema Safety Management System

Safety awareness and
management
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involvement
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START DISCUSSION

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