Modeling and Characterization of Novel Deepwater Marine Risers

LUPGRC 2017
Amaechi Chiemela Victor

Date: 6th May, 2017

Year: 2nd Year PhD Student

Department: Engineering Department
Supervisor: Prof. Jianqiao Ye

Research Sponsors:
1. NDDC (Niger Delta Development Commission), Nigeria.
2. Engineering Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
 Outline

• Outline

• Risers Overview

• Brief Discussion

• Current Work (Update)

• Riser Configurations

• Catenary Equation

• Loads on Risers

• Orcaflex Model

• Analysis / Discussion

• Works Done

• Next Steps

• Conclusion
 Brief on Research

• The scope of the research work

Oil and Gas Industry • The research output and update
• The timelines to meet & any challenges
Onshore
• The expected output on next steps
Mainstream • Considerations on present research
• Present Results of research
Offshore • Understand the result interpretation.

Flexible Risers
Mooring lines Risers Rigid Risers
Hybrid Risers
Platforms Pipelines, etc.
Composite Risers
 Current Work (Update)
• Following your advise, I have started working on Steel, using Steel Catenary Risers.

• Had to run some simulation on Orcaflex and try to interpret it.

• This also made me to also look at Pipe-laying operations, as they also have similar
behaviour in installation from an offshore vessel.

• I have run an Orcaflex model of the riser on Orcaflex.

• Will develop it and incorporate the vessel motion generated from ANSYS Aqwa.

• Had to study more on Ocean conditions, as I was wrongly using the wrong wave
spectrum for deepwater conditions.

• Currently am studying the analytical behaviour of the Catenary Risers.

• I have also extended the design from the Hydrodynamic model on Charles Hull, by
modelling risers on it.
 Riser Configurations

Free Hanging Catenary Lazy Wave

Steep Wave Tethered Lazy Wave / Reverse Pliant Wave

Lazy-S Steep-S

Pliant Wave
 Catenary Equation

𝑤𝑥
• 𝑦 = 𝐻/𝑤[cosh − 1]
𝐻 H

ds

H X

Catenary Line
 Loads on Risers
Mean
Water
level
Wave forces Vessel
Top
Weight, (WConnection
)
r
of Composite
riser
Current
forces Internal and
external fluid
pressure
Buoyancy
Z
Bottom
Y connection
Foundation
X
casing
Orcaflex Model Update
 Wire Frame Orcaflex Model

OrcaFlex 9.8e: Catenary Riser J-lay.sim (modified 12:50 on 30/03/2017 by OrcaFlex 9.8e)
Azimuth=270; Elevation=0 Z
Time: 16.0000s
30 m
X
 Results
OrcaFlex 9.8e: Catenary Riser J-lay.sim (modified 12:50 on 30/03/2017 by OrcaFlex 9.8e)
CATENARY Riser End Force (kN) at End A, t = -8.000 to 16.000s

CATENARY Riser End Force at End A vs Sea Z Acceleration at X=0.00, Y=0.00, Z=0.00
200

150

100

50

0
-2 -1.5 -1 -0.5 0 0.5
Sea Z Acceleration (m/s^2) at X=0.00, Y=0.00, Z=0.00 m, t = -8.000 to 16.000s
 Result presentation

Full Results for

CATENARY Riser at time
16.000s
OrcaFlex 9.8e: Catenary Riser J-
lay.sim (modified 12:50 on
30/03/2017 by OrcaFlex 9.8e)

End A End B
Total Force (kN) 70.3767908787898 Total Force (kN) 27.0148404990448
End Tension (kN) 70.3380480487908 End Tension (kN) 26.9885153675545
End Shear Force (kN) 2.33488566805939 End Shear Force (kN) 1.19232774190126
Total Moment (kN.m) 0 Total Moment (kN.m) 0
End Bend Moment (kN.m) 0 End Bend Moment (kN.m) 0
End Torque (kN.m) 0 End Torque (kN.m) 0
End Curvature (rad/m) 0 End Curvature (rad/m) 0
End Ez-angle (deg) 17.9584990101339 End Ez-angle (deg) 0.385102490526068
End Force Azimuth (deg) 180 End Force Azimuth (deg) 360
End Force Declination End Force Declination (deg) 87.0852676763911
174.988982552242
(deg)
End Force Ez-angle (deg) 2.91473232360894
End Force Ez-angle (deg) 19.8597458115726
End Force Exy-angle (deg) 180
End Force Exy-angle (deg) 360
 Components for Ends A and B
End A components

End Axes Global Axes

Load Magnitude Ex Ey Ez GX GY GZ

- - - -
70.376790878 23.908322449 66.191274440
Force (kN) 6.7507525031 6.1472226764 6.7507525031 70.107805184
7898 5571 4043
1921E-16 4048 1921E-16 3243

Moment
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(kN.m)

End B components

End Axes Global Axes

Load Magnitude Ex Ey Ez GX GY GZ
- - -
27.014840499 26.979891814 26.979891814 1.3736975254
Force (kN) 1.3736975254 5.0955418479 5.0955418479
0448 0414 0414 5878
5878 0562E-15 0562E-15
Moment
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(kN.m)
Pipe-Laying with Stinger
 Wireframe of the Model
OrcaFlex 9.8e: pipeline laying 2.sim (modified 21:22 on 27/03/2017 by OrcaFlex 9.8e)
Azimuth=270; Elevation=0 Z
Time: 16.0000s
100 m
X
 Result of simulation

OrcaFlex 9.8e: pipeline laying 2.sim (modified 21:22 on 27/03/2017 by OrcaFlex 9.8e)
Time History: Vessel1 Supports Lx-Force
-2920

-2930
Vessel1 Supports Lx-Force (kN)

-2940

-2950

-2960

-2970
-5 0 5 10 15
Time (s)
 To see effect of vessel lift

OrcaFlex 9.8e: pipeline laying 2.sim (modified 21:22 on 27/03/2017 by OrcaFlex 9.8e)
Vessel1 Max Support Lift Out for all supported lines (m)

Time History: Vessel1 Max Support Lift Out for all supported lines
1.665

1.6648

1.6646

1.6644

1.6642

1.664

1.6638

1.6636
-5 0 5 10 15
Time (s)
Riser Model on FPSO
 Wireframe of Riser Model
OrcaFlex 9.8e: RiserCase1X.sim (modified 18:08 on 13/03/2017 by OrcaFlex 9.8c)
Azimuth=0; Elevation=0
Time: 16.0000s
Z
1000 m
Y
 Result of Simulation
End A
Total Force (kN)
End Tension (kN)
End Shear Force (kN)
Total Moment (kN.m)
End Bend Moment
(kN.m)
End Torque (kN.m)
End Curvature (rad/m)
End Ez-angle (deg)
End Force Azimuth (deg)
End Force Declination
(deg)
End Force Ez-angle (deg)
End Force Exy-angle
(deg)
End B
3399.98021931812 Total Force (kN) 4628.77727116632
3399.93447412388 End Tension (kN) 4628.76577688492
17.6369900628376
End Shear Force (kN) 10.3154643551501
0
Total Moment (kN.m) 0
0 End Bend Moment (kN.m) 0
0 End Torque (kN.m) 0
0 End Curvature (rad/m) 0
167.426020680886
End Ez-angle (deg) 171.930329857442
357.435550730998
End Force Azimuth (deg) 179.999999999747
167.238877475392
End Force Declination (deg) 172.058016506824
167.238877475392 End Force Ez-angle (deg) 172.058016506824
End Force Exy-angle (deg) 179.999999999747
357.435550730998
 Components for Ends A and B

End A components

End Axes Global Axes

Load Magnitude Ex Ey Ez GX GY GZ
- - - -
3399.9802193 750.25852588 750.25852588
Force (kN) 33.602575076 3315.9988695 33.602575076 3315.9988695
1812 9106 9106
8122 7661 8122 7661
Moment
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(kN.m)

End B components

End Axes Global Axes

Load Magnitude Ex Ey Ez GX GY GZ
- - - -
4628.7772711 2.8251942272 2.8251942272
Force (kN) 639.55956765 4584.3802836 639.55956765 4584.3802836
6632 7764E-9 7764E-9
1002 907 1002 907
Moment
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(kN.m)
 Update on Simulations
• As regards the environmental load cases, I had to take a tutorial
yesterday to understand more on the environmental loads.
• The stiffness on my riser for the ANSYS Aqwa which I am using
for the hydrodynamic analysis is from that from Orcaflex.
• However, my initial design had very high stiffness with End
Tensions as 3399.9 KN (End A) and 4628.77KN(End B).
• Currently, am trying to run more simulations using different
load cases.
Update on ANSYS Aqwa Model
 Next Steps
• The Hydrodynamic Model is still being developed;
• To do more simulations on the model;
• To approach the analysis and expand the model;
• To get good results on this work;
• To tidy up the review paper and send;
• Writing journal papers and more conferences
Conclusion
• I understand the research work better now.
• Am more comfortable with the numerical
modelling.
• I will keep on improving the models on the
research, and running with different load cases.
Thank You