In recent times, there is a rise in the application of bonded marine hoses on floating offshore structures (FOS). These increased developments have led to their deployment CALM, SALM, and other conventional buoy systems. Classification includes hoses, submarine reeling hoses. The mechanics hose motion relative different operations, such as twists, turns, torques, reeling, pipe-laying, etc. Howe...

Deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil gas exploitation might be challenge due to the fatigue damage at touchdown zone (TDZ). Therefore, development of risers with thicker pipe ends (upset end) is a solution diminish issues related through reducing average axial stress. In current study, manufacturing an upset end was carried out by friction welding in API X65 PLS2 steel outer diameter 220 mm. Consi...

Several factors can affect the response of steel catenary risers (SCR) around its touch down zone (TDZ). These include stiffness soil, soil suction force on riser TDZ, degradation with cyclic TDZ loading, etc. Riser strength and fatigue computation are usually performed considering flat seabed use rigid or linear (spring) interaction model. However, bathymetric information obtained for SCR lay ...

This paper (SPE 173892) was revised for publication from paper OTC 25335, first presented at the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 5–8 May 2014. Original manuscript received for review 20 June 2014. Revised manuscript received for review 27 October 2014. Paper peer approved 4 November 2014. Summary Steel catenary risers (SCRs) on a large-heave-motion vessel are susceptible to compression...

Active control of the production choke valve is the recommended solution to prevent severe slugging flow conditions at offshore oilfields. The slugging flow constitutes an unstable and highly nonlinear system; the gain of the system changes drastically for different operating points. Although PI and PID controllers are the most widely used controllers in the industry, they need to be re-tuned f...