RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR SUBSEA

LIFTING
RULES AND REGULATIONS IN SUBSEA
LIFTING

1. Applicable laws and

regulations

2. Planning, Modelling and

Verification

3. A perspective on offsets
APPLICABLE
LEGISLATION
Offshore Petroleum and
Greenhouse Gas Storage Act
1999
APPLICABLE LEGISLATION

● Onshore Lifts
– WA Occupational Health and Safety Act 1984
– Petroleum and Geothermal Resources Act 1967

– Safety Case of facility / vessel

– Administered by DMP or NOPSEMA

APPLICABLE LEGISLATION

● Offshore Lifts
– State Waters
● Petroleum and Submerged Lands Act 1982
– Commonwealth Waters
● OPGGSA, 1999

– Vessel / Facility Safety Case(s)

– Administered by DMP or NOPSEMA

LIFT PLANNING

● What are you going to lift?

LIFT MODELLING
● DNV Rules for Planning and Execution of Marine
Operation Part 2, Chapter 6 1996
– Superseded

● DNV RP H103, Modelling and Analysis of Marine

Operations, December 2012
– Wave zone analysis
● General – Section 3

● Simple – Section 4

– Deepwater Lowering Operations – Section 5

– Landing on Seabed and Retrieval – Section 6
LIFT MODELLING

– Wave zone analysis

– General – Section 3
– All equations are time
dependant;
– All equations should be
solved in 6DOF for a
suitable wave force.
– Simplified Method – Section 4
– All equations are velocity
dependant
– Equations may be solved in
a single plane
LIFT MODELLING

– Deepwater Lowering Operations – Section 5

– Static forces – current and self weight

– Dynamic Forces
– Natural frequencies of a straight vertical
cable

𝐸𝐴
𝜔𝑗 = 𝑣𝑗
𝑚
LIFT MODELLING

vj

EA, m
LIFT MODELLING

vj

K
A33

M
LIFT MODELLING

– Landing on Seabed and Retrieval – Section 6

– Guidance is provided for perforation size vs
touchdown velocity
– Guidance is also provided on the effects cyclic
loading of soils and its effect on bearing
capacity
VERIFICATION
● Planning verification
– Operator requirement
for 3rd party review of
CIE lifts.
– Safety case requirement
for verification of
engineering.

● Model verification
– Feedback of the coupled
dynamics back into the
vessel RAO model.
LIFT OFFSETS
● DNV RP F107 - Risk Assessment of Pipeline

Protection – October 2010

– Up to a 15 degree cone – very conservative for
water depths greater than 180m (Section 5.2.3).
– Probabilistic model – Data derived for known
dropped objects in the North Sea and their
scattered distribution on the seabed.
– Still widely used as a guideline but it can result in
larger offsets than are operationally sensible.
LIFT OFFSETS

● Series of drop cones for water

depths up to 180m.
● Based on a normal distribution of
items dropped and measured.
1 1 𝑥
− ( )2
𝑝 𝑥 = 𝑒 2 𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑠𝑒𝑡
2𝜋𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑠𝑒𝑡
LIFT OFFSETS

180m
● Tumble phase

● Stable at terminal velocity (Vterm)

1 𝑘 05
𝑘 = 𝜌𝑣2S 𝛼=
2 𝑚𝑔

𝑉𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 = (2𝑚𝑔/𝜌𝑆𝐶𝑑 )

𝑇𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 = arctanh 𝛼𝑉𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 /𝛼𝑔

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QUESTIONS