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Offshore Pipelines
Design, Installation, and Maintenance
Offers cost-effective approaches for developing and maintaining subsea and deepwater pipeline systems
Boyun Guo (Author), Shanhong Song, Ph.D. (Author), Ali Ghalambor (Author), Tian Ran Lin, PhD (Author)
9780123979490
Hardback, published 30 September 2013
400 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm, 0.79 kg
"The authors are the most respected names in the area of designing, installing, testing, and operating submarine pipelines…It is a useful book for engineers and developers challenged with bringing oil and gas onshore. I would recommend that if you work in the offshore pipeline industry, you have this practical reference available." --Saeid Mokhatab, Chairman of Natural Gas Engineering Editorial Advisory Board
The development of oil and gas fields offshore requires specialized pipeline equipment. The structures must be strong enough to with stand the harshest environments, and ensure that production is not interrupted and remains economically feasible. However, recent events in the Gulf of Mexico have placed a new importance on maintenance and reliability. A new section; Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), introduces the subject of maintenance, written by Tian Ran Lin, Queensland University of Technology, and Yong Sun, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering. Two of the main objectives of CBM is maximizing reliability while preventing major or minor equipment malfunction and minimizing maintenance costs. In this new section, the authors deal with the multi-objective condition based maintenance optimization problem. CBM provides two major advantages: (1) an efficient approach for weighting maintenance objectives, and (2) a method for specifying physical methods for achieving those objectives. Maintenance cost and reliability objectives are calculated based on proportional hazards model and a control limit CBM replacement policy. Written primarily for engineers and management personnel working on offshore and deepwater oil and gas pipelines, this book covers the fundamentals needed to design, Install, and commission pipeline projects. This new section along with a thorough update of the existing chapters represents a 30% increase in information over the previous edition.
PrefaceList of SymbolsUnit Conversion Factors 1. Introduction Part I: Pipeline Design 2. General Design Information3. Diameter and Wall Thickness4. Hydrodynamic Stability of Pipelines5. Pipeline Span6. Operating Stresses7. Pipeline Riser Design8. Pipeline External Corrosion Protection9. Pipeline Insulation10. Introduction to Flexible Pipelines Part II: Pipeline Installation 11. Pipeline Installation Methods12. Installation Bending Stress Control13. Pipeline On-Bottom Stability Control Part III: Pipeline Commissioning and Operations 14. Pipeline Testing and Pre-commissioning15. Flow Assurance16. Pigging Operations Part IV: Condition Based Maintenance 17. Concepts in Condition Based Maintenance 18. Vibration in pipeline condition monitoring and assessment 19. Strategies of pipeline maintenance Appendices Appendix A: Gas-Liquid Multiphase Flow in PipelineAppendix B: Steady and Transient Solutions for Pipeline TemperatureAppendix C: Strength De-Rating of Old Pipelines Index
Subject Areas: Hydraulic engineering [TNF], Structural engineering [TNC], Petroleum technology [THFP]
