较深水导管架对接水下井口基盘的关键技术研究及工程应用

根据较深水油田开发方案的需要,油田采用井口基盘进行预钻井,然后安装导管架对接井口基盘,该方法可以有效缩短海上油田的开采投产期,加快投资回报速度,又降低了海上安装工程费用,节省油田总体开发成本。但深水导管架与水下井口基盘的对接安装精度要求高、难度大、风险高,如何安全、高效地开展导管架与水下井口基盘的对接技术,是深水区块所面临的重要课题之一。结合文昌19-1项目WHPC导管架的海上安装方案并通过理论分析,介绍了较深水导管架与水下井口基盘对接的关键技术。WHPC导管架海上对接安装的工程实践成功验证了导管架与水下井口基盘对接安装方案的可靠性,对后续类似深水项目具有一定的参考借鉴意义。     

台风下TLP立管系统可靠性评估

针对在南海海域频发的台风自然灾害,考虑海况随机性、结构随机性以及作业参数的随机性,采用梯度投影确定取样点的响应面法,分别建立P2D、D2P和P2P(P指生产立管,D指钻井立管)三种作业模式下TLP串行立管系统的结构极限状态方程。并在建立立管可靠性分析模型的基础上,确定一种立管可靠度计算方法。算例结合南海某TLP平台给出了上述方法的具体应用。研究表明,10年一遇台风情况下,P2D、D2P和P2P三种工况中生产立管系统的失效概率均小于0.001%,钻井立管系统的可靠度分别为0.016%和0.113%。在大于200年一遇的强台风情况下,P2P工况时的上下游生产立管系统失效概率均大于0.32%和0.018%。因此建议10年一遇台风情况下,停止钻井立管作业;在大于200年一遇的强台风情况下,停止生产立管作业。研究结果可为南海TLP立管系统可靠度评估及安全作业技术支持。     

TLP干式钻完井技术特点分析

TLP使得干式井口在深水的应用成为可能,与常规的深水开发模式水下井口相比,TLP降低了钻完井作业的难度和费用,尤其在后期修井和调整并作业时,能够大大降低项目的投资,经济效益明显.TLP目前在墨西哥湾、北海及印度尼西亚深水油气田均有采用.目前针对TLP的钻完井设计和作业程序国内开展研究较少,制约了深水油气田开发前期方案设计工作的开展.因此,重点介绍了TLP对钻完井程序的影响;对于不同的平台钻机配置,总结了TLP的钻完井程序;提出了钻完井设计和作业过程中,TLP对回接套管、升沉补偿等问题的要求,分析了与常规深水湿式井口的温度剖面差异,为开展TLP钻完井技术研究和前期方案设计提供参考.     

深水新型水下立管支撑平台研究

FPSO系统在深海海洋油气资源开发中扮演着重要的角色,而深水FPSO系统水下立管管路较长,立管整体重量较大,立管在水流作用下产生的涡激振动也较强,这些将给FPSO主船体带来严重的稳性、强度及疲劳问题。鉴于此,深海FPSO系统在油气资源开发过程中,须在水下一定深度设置若干水下软管支撑浮体,用以支撑来自深海海底的管线,减轻深水立管对FPSO的负载作用。随着深海资源开发的深入发展,传统水下软管支撑浮体作为FPSO系统的关键装备已经无法满足深海开采的需求,寻求大型化、深海化、生命周期长久化的新型水下立管支撑平台迫在眉睫,设计简便快捷、低风险的安装方法成为其开发过程中的重点和难点。详细描述了水下软管支撑浮体的产生及其发展历程,针对深海开发的需求提出了新型立管支撑平台的新概念,着重对新概念下下水安装更便捷的耐压立管支撑平台设计原理及其下水安装方式展开了分析,最后对水下软管支撑浮体和新型立管支撑平台的关键技术进行了总结,并提出了需进一步解决的问题。     

中海油服已具备半潜式钻井平台深海钻井能力

中海油服有限公司的Atlantis人工海底深水钻井专利技术近日在中国南海大陆架成功完成全面测试。这标志着中海油服已具备利用半潜式钻井平台进行深海钻井作业的技术能力。Atlantis技术的原理是在水下约250--400m的深处放置一个浮筒用以安放井口和防喷器，再通过回接管把浮筒与海底井口相连接，并与半潜式钻井平台相配合，能够使半潜式平台到更深的海域作业。     

动力定位钻井平台井口作业指南的分析与计算

动力定位钻井平台已逐步被广泛应用于深水和超深水油气资源的勘探开发。由于面临复杂的海洋环境和作业环境,钻井平台可能会出现动力定位失效移位的紧急情况。文章在分析井口作业指南发展历史的基础上,基于国际上对井口作业指南的要求,研究钻井平台动力定位失效移位模式并对其进行分析,建立钻井平台井口作业指南红色界限值的计算方法,并自主开发相应计算软件;该软件可对钻井平台红色界限值、黄色界限值和警告界限值进行全面计算,完善井口作业指南,保证深水动力定位钻井平台的作业安全。     

基于水平湿拖的TLP平台张力腿现场扶正数值模拟

TLP平台张力腿安装方法有竖直安装和水平安装。以一TLP平台张力腿为例,基于张力腿水平湿拖安装方法,采用OrcaFlex软件建立扶正分析模型,数值模拟了张力腿现场扶正过程,研究分析了张力腿在不同海洋环境和吊机缆绳释放速度等参数下的动力响应,并在此基础上进行了集束扶正分析,根据安装接受标准确定了合适的扶正作业天气窗口。模拟分析结果表明:在扶正过程中,浪向/流向、波高、流速对张力腿应力影响显著;吊机缆绳张力对浪向/流向、流速敏感;吊机缆绳释放速度对张力腿应力和吊机缆绳张力影响微弱。     

水下目标磁探测的测线间距设计

测线间距设计是水下磁性目标探测的重要环节。把水下目标简化为磁偶极子，导出了更加合理的测线间距计算公式；为提高水下目标磁探测的可靠性与作业效率，分析了影响测线间距设计的各种因素，认为水下目标磁矩、海洋环境噪声水平和测点定位误差是测线间距设计中必须考虑的三个主要因素。     

干树式深吃水半潜平台顶部张紧立管的设计与分析

用于深水油气开发的干树式顶部张紧立管(TTR)系统的载体平台是一种具有渐变式立柱的深吃水半潜钻井/生产平台(TCDD-Semi),该平台为中国南海的深水区域的气田开发而设计。文中介绍了该立管系统的设计与分析,提出了干树式采油立管设计方案,并进行了立管干涉、总体强度、疲劳、立管张紧器行程范围分析与核校。结果表明,立管在强海流中无碰撞,最大冯·米塞斯应力利用系数为0.88(规范要求不大于1.0),最小疲劳寿命89.4 a,大于20 a的设计服役期,张紧器最大行程33.1 ft,小于最大设计值35 ft。可见所述立管系统满足设计功能和工业规范要求,在具有恶劣海况条件的我国南海海域进行生产作业的深吃水半潜平台上设计安装干树式立管系统是可行的。     

立管对深水半潜式生产平台定位性能影响研究

基于三维频域势流理论,计算船体的水动力参数;采用动态耦合方法分析了深海半潜式生产平台各系统之间的相互作用特征,研究了立管系统对锚泊系统定位能力的影响。计算结果表明,立管系统在一定程度上增加了整个系统的刚度,其所受的附加质量和阻尼可降低平台的低频响应,从而降低平台的偏移和系泊缆的张力;海流将增大立管上的拖曳力,使平台偏移更远,锚索上的张力更大;立管系统对锚泊系统定位性能的最终影响需综合考虑多种因素的叠加。对目标平台而言,由于服役海域的流速较大,对立管的拖曳作用较为明显。因此,为确保平台的安全性,当服役海域流速较大时,带有多立管的平台,其锚泊系统的设计应考虑立管的影响。     

An installation system of deepwater risers by an S-lay vessel

Along with the consumption increase of the petroleum products,more countries have transferred their attentions to the offshore fields,especially the deepwater oil and gas reserves.For deepwater exploitation,the risers must be installed to act as the conduits connecting surface platforms to subsea facilities.In this paper,the typical risers sorted by different classes are introduced,and the correspondent installation methods are presented.By investigating the recent projects performed in the deepwater hot spots,and combining the challenges of HYSY201 for riser installation,a lifting device developed for assisting riser installation is proposed and detailed to satisfy the installation of deepwater risers in the LW3-1 Gas Field of in the South China Sea.Tests on both the functions and performances of such a new system exhibit the satisfaction of meeting all challenging requirements of HYSY201 for application to riser installation in waters up to a depth of in the South China Sea.     

Feedback control system for blow-out preventer positioning

During the drilling of ultra-deep-water subsea petroleum wells, a blow-out preventer (BOP), a piece of safety equipment, must be assembled on the wellhead. The BOP is suspended using the drilling riser during the wellhead approach operation, and the riser's top end is connected to the floating platform rig. This article presents a feedback control system for the automatic approach of the BOP to the wellhead. Compared to state-of-the-art controls, ours does not require ancillary thrusters installed alongside the riser nor inclination sensors atop of the drilling riser. Additionally, our proposed control embeds a closed-loop dynamic positioning system, thus retaining the characteristics of the original control system and adding an extra closed-loop. This eases implementation of the BOP approach control to an existing platform. To calculate the optimal gains for the BOP controller, we assume a linear system for the riser, including only the pendulum-shape. The simulation is carried out using nonlinear models for both riser and floating platform. We assume an International Towing Tank Conference standard semi-submersible platform, coupled with a 3000-m free-hanging vertical riser for the time-domain simulation. The results show the BOP tracking to be a step-shaped input signal under current and wave loads. A discussion of the performance of feedback control under different environmental loads is also included.     

Reliability analysis of wake-induced collision of flexible risers

Collision between risers is an important design and operational concern, especially in deep water since the probability of collision tends to increase as the riser length increases. Riser collision is due to the joint effects of many processes, i.e. environmental loads, hydrodynamic interference and surface floater motions and the most of them are stochastic processes. This paper provides an approach for estimating the failure probability of riser collision by considering these joint effects and their stochastic nature. Firstly, a procedure for establishing the distribution function of the extreme minimum relative distance between two risers is introduced based on simulation tools and statistical data. Numerical simulation is performed to compute the minimum distance between risers for a given duration. Repeated simulations are applied so that the extreme value distribution can be established. Secondly, reliability analysis is performed by considering the uncertainties of input parameters related to environmental loads and riser system. The collision probability is calculated based on both the First/Second Order Reliability Method and the Monte Carlo simulation techniques.     

基于监测数据的深水水下井口循环弯矩计算方法

水下井口的疲劳完整性是海洋油气田长期安全开采的前提。工业界往往采用贴应变片直接测量水下井口应变来计算弯矩和疲劳损伤,但水下井口应变片粘贴困难且不能长时间连续工作。采用对水下井口监测方法,基于隔水管—防喷器组—水下井口的运动和力学特性,考虑防喷器组惯性力矩建立系统耦合动力学方程,最终形成基于监测数据的水下井口循环弯矩计算方法。以南海某深水水下井口为例,建立隔水管—防喷器组—水下井口系统有限元模型并进行动态分析,提取隔水管底部张力、转角、防喷器组加速度及转角等参数,代入所建立的系统耦合动力学模型,得到水下井口弯矩与有限元计算结果吻合良好。研究表明只需通过在线监测获得所需的输入数据,无需监测水下井口应变即可获取水下井口循环弯矩。建立的系统耦合动力学模型可为水下井口疲劳完整性评估提供理论依据。     

柔性管道骨架层压溃失效机理和安全评价方法研究进展

非黏结柔性管道作为深水油气开发领域的关键设备,是连接海底井口和海洋平台的主要纽带。海洋油气开发水深已经超过了3 000 m,高静水压力是深水软管设计和安全评价的主要挑战,明确深水柔性管道压溃失效机理,并准确地预测柔性管道的压溃压力可以为柔性管道结构设计和安全评价提供依据,柔性管道的压溃压力与骨架层的几何形状以及骨架层之间复杂的相互作用有关,准确高效地预测压溃压力变得极具挑战性。针对柔性管道失效机理研究和压溃压力预测方法进行了总结,指出当前柔性管道压溃失效分析中薄弱的环节,为我国非黏结柔性管道的结构设计和安全评价提供参考。     

深海立管相互碰撞的响应面法研究

针对深海立管在理想环境和外部水环境中发生碰撞的情况,从立管碰撞最大径向位移和应力峰值两方面展开研究,充分利用ABAQUS仿真得到的数据,基于数值模拟和回归分析,提出四因素三水平的立管碰撞响应面分析方法。采用Design-Expert软件的BOX设计,对立管的非线性碰撞过程中的碰撞应力峰值和最大径向位移等两个试验指标进行回归分析并分别建立二次响应面回归模型。通过将响应面分析所得最优化解与有限元计算结果的对比,最终验证了响应面分析方法及所得模型的准确性。     

Artificial Neural Networks for the analysis of spread⿿mooring configurations for floating production systems

This work presents the development of Artificial Neural Networks for the analysis of any arbitrarily defined spread-mooring configuration for floating production systems (FPS), considering a given scenario characterized by the water depth, metocean data, characteristics of the platform hull, and the riser layout. The methodology is applied to recent designs of deepwater semi-submersible platforms connected to a large number of risers with asymmetrical layout. In such cases, the design variables may include values for the azimuthal spacing and mooring radius varying along the corners of the platform, besides the pretension and material of the lines. The results of the case study indicated that, given any mooring configuration characterized by the combination of all these design variables, the ANNs provide fairly accurate values for the parameters of the response that are required for the design of mooring systems (typically platform offsets and line tensions).     

深海采矿立管在波流载荷下的弯矩响应分析

采矿立管是深海采矿系统的重要组成部分，立管的弯矩分析是确保立管正常使用的重要指标。立管所处海洋环境复杂，且立管底部的自由边界条件使得立管弯矩特性难以分析。本文基于波浪理论，使用Abaqus 有限元软件建立海洋采矿立管的模型，运用Abaqus中的AQUA海洋工程模块，考虑立管在轴向力、自重、浮力、波浪载荷、海流载荷及模拟海上平台水平和升沉运动共同作用下，对采矿立管进行弯矩分析，计算了提升泵不同安装位置、不同中继仓重量变化对弯矩的影响，结果表明：提升泵会增大安装位置的弯矩幅度，且安装在不同位置对立管弯矩会产生叠加影响；中继仓重量的增加提高了立管整体稳定性，但会使提升泵处弯矩波动产生向中部延伸的不利影响。     

Coupled analysis of floating production systems

Fully coupled global analysis of Floating Production Systems, including the vessel, the mooring system and the riser system is described. Design of the system can be a daunting task, involving more than 1000 load cases for global analysis. The primary driver for the mooring system and for the riser system is motion of the vessel. Vessel motions are driven by environmental forces, but are restrained by forces from the mooring and riser systems. Numerical models and procedures that provide accurate and efficient global modeling of the Floating Production System are presented. Both Time Domain and Frequency Domain procedures are included. The accuracy and efficiency of the procedures are illustrated in an example: a large semi with 16 mooring lines and 20 risers. The procedures provide the accuracy and efficiency for use of fully coupled analysis in design of Floating Production Systems from concept selection to final design, installation and operation.     

A flexible-segment-model-based dynamics calculation method for free hanging marine risers in re-entry

In re-entry,the drilling riser hanging to the holding vessel takes on a free hanging state,waiting to be moved from the initial random position to the wellhead.For the re-entry,dynamics calculation is often done to predict the riser motion or evaluate the structural safety.A dynamics calculation method based on Flexible Segment Model(FSM) is proposed for free hanging marine risers.In FSM,a riser is discretized into a series of flexible segments.For each flexible segment,its deflection feature and external forces are analyzed independently.For the whole riser,the nonlinear governing equations are listed according to the moment equilibrium at nodes.For the solution of the nonlinear equations,a linearization iteration scheme is provided in the paper.Owing to its flexibility,each segment can match a long part of the riser body,which enables that good results can be obtained even with a small number of segments.Moreover,the linearization iteration scheme can avoid widely used Newton-Rapson iteration scheme in which the calculation stability is influenced by the initial points.The FSM-based dynamics calculation is timesaving and stable,so suitable for the shape prediction or real-time control of free hanging marine risers.