EP1140612B1 - Oberes lager für offshore-drehturm - Google Patents

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EP1140612B1
EP1140612B1 EP98965054A EP98965054A EP1140612B1 EP 1140612 B1 EP1140612 B1 EP 1140612B1 EP 98965054 A EP98965054 A EP 98965054A EP 98965054 A EP98965054 A EP 98965054A EP 1140612 B1 EP1140612 B1 EP 1140612B1
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  • One type of offshore system includes a turret that lies in a moonpool of a vessel hull, or outboard of the hull, and a bearing structure that allows the vessel to weathervane (rotate without limit about a vertical axis) around the turret.
  • the turret is anchored to the seafloor and fluid lines usually extend from wells or pipelines at the seafloor up to the turret.
  • the bearing structure includes an upper bearing assembly and sometimes a lower bearing assembly. The upper bearing assembly supports the weight of the turret and the weight of the mooring structure and hoses attached thereto, which may amount to thousands of tons.
  • the upper bearing assembly has previously been a roller bearing, which has low friction so the turret will turn only a few degrees before the rollers roll.
  • roller bearings there are serious disadvantages in the use of roller bearings.
  • One disadvantage is that reliable roller bearings require raceways that are forged before machining, to provide strength to resist the concentrated forces of individual rollers.
  • Some large turrets have diameters of up to twenty meters.
  • the raceways can be formed of forged segments that are welded together, this results in reduced strength and in irregularities in the raceway surfaces under load.
  • the cost for large roller bearings is very high.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates an offshore system 10 which includes a vessel 12 having a hull 14 with a vertical opening or moonpool 16 that receives a turret 20.
  • a mooring structure 22 extends from the turret to the seafloor 24, and limits drift of the vessel.
  • the mooring structure illustrated includes several long and heavy chains that extend in catenary curves to the seafloor and along it, although vertical risers and other mooring structures are available.
  • a fluid conduit 26 extends from a seafloor well or seafloor pipeline up to the turret.
  • the hull 14 can weathervane, that is, rotate without limit about a vertical axis 30 with changing winds and currents.
  • the turret 20 is largely non-rotatable, in that it cannot rotate without limit, and usually does not rotate more than perhaps 10°.
  • a bearing structure 32 that rotatably connects the turret to the hull includes upper and lower bearing assemblies 34, 36.
  • the upper bearing assembly 34 usually supports most or all of the vertical weight of the turret and loads thereon. Where the turret has a large height, as is shown in Fig. 1, so a lower portion 35 of the turret lies near the hull bottom, a lower bearing assembly 36 is provided and usually takes most of the radial load, that is; the horizontal component of the load from one of the chains when the vessel drifts in a direction to increase tension in that chain. However, it is usually necessary to provide some radial bearing capability at the upper bearing assembly 34.
  • the turret and/or hull may deform, which may cause tilt of the upper portion 39 of the turret.
  • tilt has been avoided by providing upper and lower sets of rollers, although this further adds to the cost of roller bearings.
  • the upper bearing ring 40 is connected to the turret, while the lower bearing ring 42 is shown as being part of a lower ring structure 80 that is connected through a support structure 46 to the vessel hull.
  • a source 50 of pressured lubricant such as oil, a water-based lubricant or even water, or other liquid, is coupled to the interface 44 to apply pressured fluid lubricant thereto.
  • the source shown includes a reservoir 52 and a pump 54 that pumps fluid under high pressure from the reservoir 52 through a passageway 56 that leads to the interface 44.
  • a pair of seals 60, 62 prevent the leakage of lubricant out of the region of the interface, unless there is severe tilt of the turret.
  • Radial inner and outer bearing parts 64, 66 form a radial interface region 70, to provide radial bearing capability at the upper bearing assembly.
  • Low pressure seals 74, 76 avoid the escape of lubricant if the vessel rolls or pitches.
  • the lower ring structure 80 forms a ring-shaped channel 86 with an open top which receives the upper bearing portion 82 which is fixed to the turret.
  • Applicant prefers not to have a holdown bearing that would prevent turret tilt and corresponding lift up of one side of the upper bearing part 82, as it would require strengthening of the turret and hull at an increased cost.
  • Fig. 3 shows a situation where the turret has tilted so that one side of the upper slider bearing ring 40 has lifted off the interface 44 and off the lower slider bearing ring 42.
  • the seals 60,62 do not contain the pressured lubricant in the interface.
  • Applicant does not attempt to contain such pressured lubricant, but allows it to escape through escape passages 90, 92, which are connected through valves 94 to the lubricant reservoir.
  • the valves 94 allow drainage of fluid only when pressure exceeds a predetermined level, which is higher than that maintained at the radial interface region 70.
  • valves 94 may open when a pressure of more than 20kPa (3psi) is reached.
  • the sudden decrease in pressure of fluid at the interface 44 results in the remaining moderately pressured fluid applying only a small upward force to the uplifted side of the upper bearing ring 40. Measures described below, are taken to assure that the opposite side of the interface continues to be supported by pressured fluid.
  • the sudden reduction in fluid pressure at the interface 44 caused by tilt occurs when there is only small tilt.
  • Applicant has designed a construction that requires a greater-amount of tilt before there is a sudden release-of lubricant pressure at one side, by appropriate selection of the support structure 46 that supports the lower bearing portion 80 on the vessel hull.
  • the support structure 46 includes a plurality of supports 100 that each includes a quantity of elastomeric material 102.
  • the elastomeric material 102 is in the form of plates of elastomeric material separated by steel plates 104.
  • the elastomeric material 102 is in compression, but the amount of compression varies with the load applied to it.
  • the support structure 46 includes a plurality of supports 100, with the figure showing a system that includes twelve of such supports, which are circumferentially spaced about the axis 30.
  • the use of elastomeric material in the support structure for the upper bearing assembly enables moderate tilt of the upper slider bearing ring with respect to the lower one, without liftoff of one side.
  • liftoff occurs, there is a sudden decrease in lubricant pressure at the side of the upper bearing ring which lifts off the lower bearing ring, to decrease the amount of tilt.
  • Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the construction of the lower slider bearing ring 42.
  • the bearing ring has recesses 110 which form segments 112 that are circumferentially spaced about the turret axis 30.
  • the particular ring shown has six of such segments 12A-12E which each subtend an angle A of 60°.
  • the recesses leave radially inner and outer slide surfaces or regions 114,116 and recesses between them.
  • the seals 60,62 lie in grooves of the inner and outer slide surfaces, respectively.
  • Fig. 6 shows that the lower surface 120 of the upper bearing ring 40, lies adjacent to the radially outer slide surface 116, with a film 122 of lubricant-between them.
  • FIG. 5 shows that an outlet 123 is connected to each recess to apply pressured oil to the entire recess.
  • the recess 110 distributes the pressured lubricant. So long as the pressure of the lubricant is maintained, the entire width of the interface, between the high pressure seals 60, 62 provides upward force to the upper bearing ring.
  • Fig. 9 shows that shutoff valves 125 are connected in series with each flow line 127 that carries fluid to a recess. Each valve 125 shuts off flow if the pressure on the downstream side of the valve drops, such as to 7kPa (1psi) below the pressure on the upstream side.
  • the inner and outer slide surfaces 114, 116 are provided to support the upper ring on the lower one, in the event that lubricant pressure is lost.
  • the presence of the recesses makes it necessary to precisely finish (e.g. by grinding and/or polishing) only reduced surface areas of the upper and lower bearings, these being the inner and outer slide surfaces 114, 116, and corresponding areas 117 of the upper bearing ring. If lubricant pressure is lost, wear will be concentrated on the inner and outer slide surfaces, but this is expected to occur only on in a while.
  • the surface regions 118, 119 of the bearing ring can be left unfinished, which reduces cost.
  • Each of the bearing rings 40, 42 can be constructed of welded-together or cast parts, because they do not have to withstand large concentrated forces such as of a roller.
  • Applicant seals the segments such as 112A, 112B (Fig. 5) from each other by segment seals 124.
  • Each segment seal lies in a radial groove 126 formed in a spoke area 130 of the lower bearing ring 42.
  • the spoke area 130 is preferably slightly recessed from the inner and outer slide surfaces 114, 116, so the spoke areas 130 do not have to be precisely finished.
  • the segment seals 124 may not seal as well as the inner and outer slide surface seals 60, 62. However, a slight leakage passed a segment seal 124 is not harmful, since it only allows a very low flow of pressured lubricant into an adjacent segment where the pressure has suddenly been reduced due to turret tilt.
  • Fig. 5A- shows part of such continuous lower bearing ring at 42X.
  • the presence of the elastomeric material (162 in Fig. 2) in the support structure 42 that supports the lower slider bearing ring on the hull, will avoid loss of lubricant pressure in the event of all but very large tilt forces.
  • Fig. 8 illustrates fluid control apparatus 140 which controls the pressure of fluid at the interface between the upper and lower slider bearing rings 40, 42.
  • a vessel typically remains headed in a predetermined direction, with minimal rotation of no more than a few degrees in either direction, for long periods of time (a plurality of hours).
  • Fig. 2 shows a sensor 142, which senses torque transmitted by the turret to the upper slider bearing ring 40. As shown in Fig. 8, the torque sensor 142 delivers an output to a control circuit 144, as where the torque sensor is a resistor whose resistance varies with sensed torque.
  • the control circuit When little or no torque is detected, the control circuit opens a switch 146 to prevent electricity or hydraulic or pneumatic fluid from a source 150 from flowing through the pump 54 to energize it.
  • the control circuit 144 doses the switch 146 to begin energization of the pump 54 so it pumps lubricant from the reservoir 52 toward the lower bearing ring 42.
  • the vessel hull has turned 5° about the vertical axis of the turret, and the turret has also turned with the hull, resulting in increased tension on the catenary chains shown in Fig. 1, which tend to turn the turret back towards its initial position.
  • the control circuit allows the pump to be energized.
  • the lubricant pressure increases as shown by graph 152.
  • the control circuit controls a valve 154 which can constrict the path along which lubricant flows, to vary the pressure.
  • the valve 154 is operated so that when full operating lubricant pressure is reached, the valve modulates the lubricant pressure, as by increasing and decreasing it by five percent every two seconds, during a period of one minute.
  • Such modulation of lubricant pressure helps to overcome static friction at the interface of the upper and lower bearing rings, to facilitate the start of turret rotation back towards its quiescent position (wherein the chains are not twisted). Thereafter, the lubricant pressure can remain steady or can change, for example, in response to the vertical load on the turret.
  • the vessel When the vessel weathervanes, it turns at a very low rotation rate, such as one revolution per ten minutes, and almost always turns at a rate of less than one revolution per minute.
  • a very low rotation rate such as one revolution per ten minutes
  • the surface of the bearing ring moves at one meter per second, or 2 miles per hour.
  • the speed of rotation of the upper bearing ring has little effect on bearing performance.
  • friction losses are not important, but only the ability to enable rotation with only moderate torque.
  • Applicant prefers to control the lubricant pressure so considerable weight, such as 10% of the total, is supported by the inner and outer slide surfaces 114, 116 (Fig. 5).
  • the average diameter (B in Fig. 4) of the bearing rings is twenty meters
  • the width D (Fig. 6) of the outer slide surface 116 and of the inner slide surface are each twenty centimeters.
  • the downward load to be supported by the upper and lower bearing rings is two thousand metric tons.
  • a lubricant pressure of about 15psi or 107kPa could result in the entire weight being supported on the pressured lubricant, although 96kPa could be used to apply about 10% to the-inner and outer slide surfaces.
  • the lubricant pressure can be adjusted in accordance with the load, by using a load sensor positioned at about the same location as the sensor 142 of Fig. 2.
  • Fig. 10 illustrates another upper bearing assembly 200 which includes a group of bearing devices 202.
  • the bearing devices support an upper bearing part 204 of the turret 206 on a lower bearing part 210 of the vessel hull 212.
  • the devices 202 are confined to a circular track 214 that is concentric with the turret axis of rotation 216.
  • the track is formed by inner and outer track walls 220, 222 of the hull.
  • each bearing device 202 includes upper and lower elements 224, 226.
  • the upper element has an upper face 230 that bears against an upper bearing surface 232 of the turret bearing part.
  • the lower element lies within the upper one.
  • the lower element has a lower face 234 that bears (at least at its seal 236) against a lower bearing surface 238 of the hull lower bearing part.
  • a pressured fluid (e.g. 100 psi) 240 such as oil lies within the device 202 and pushes the elements apart.
  • a medium pressure face seal 236 seals the lower face 234 of the lower element to the lower bearing surface 238.
  • a medium-pressure radial seal 242 seals the gap 244 between the outside of the lower element and the inside of upper one. This results in the pressured fluid 240 being trapped between the elements and pushing the upper element up while pushing the lower element down.
  • the downward force on the lower element is equal to the pressure of the fluid times the area within the ring-shaped region 250.
  • the pressured fluid pushes directly against the lower bearing surface 238 over a circle of diameter 252. It can be seen from Fig. 11 that the diameter (252 + 2 X 250) of the bearing device is greater than its height 254.
  • the elements 224, 226 act like a cylinder (not necessarily of cylindrical shape) and piston, so the upper element can move up or down by a moderate amount such as up to two centimeters.
  • the gap 244 is large enough that the upper element can tilt by at least 0.5 degrees, and preferably by over one degree (most pistons can tilt by less than 1/4 degree within their cylinders).
  • the bearing devices can still support the turret on the hull.
  • Such a warp would commonly result in the distance 254 for bearing devices at one side of the turret axis increasing while the distance for bearing devices on the opposite side decreasing.
  • the outer diameter of each bearing device is one meter.
  • Fig. 10 shows a source 260 of pressured fluid connected through a manifold 262 to fluid conduits 264 that each extends to one of the bearing devices 202. Only every other bearing device receives pressured oil and supports the turret with the others useful as spares.
  • Fig. 11 shows a hole 270 in the upper element and a pipe 272 of the conduit that is coupled to the hole 270 and that extends through a hole 274 in the turret part 204. The upper end of the pipe is connected through a swivel joint 276 to a pipe that extends from the manifold.
  • the bearing device 202 moves with the turret as the turret rotates, although the bearing device can rotate about its own axis 278.
  • FIG. 11 shows, in phantom lines, an extension 288 of the outer wall carrying a radial bearing 290 that keeps the upper end of the turret centered on its axis.
  • the pressure of oil can be set to be slightly less than that required to keep the upper element 224 above the top surface 290 of the lower element, and/or to keep the lower element lower surface 292 above the lower bearing surface 238. As a result, the upper element presses with a low force against the surface 290.
  • the advantage of this is that small variations in the load on the turret or fluid pressure do not cause the turret to rise or fall.
  • the pressure is preferably regulated so when there is more than a slight increase in turret weight (as when mooring chains are lifted off the sea floor), the fluid pressure is increased.
  • the pressure can be closely regulated to maintain the conditions of Fig. 11.
  • a door 294 is provided to enable replacement of a damaged bearing device, although spares are already present.
  • the invention provides an upper bearing assembly for supporting a turret on a vessel hull, which can be constructed to be reliable in very large sizes, and at moderate cost.
  • the upper bearing assembly includes upper and lower slider bearing rings lying adjacent at an interface, with pressured lubricant at the interface preferably supporting most of the weight.
  • the lower bearing ring can be supported by quantities of elastomeric material spaced about the turret axis.
  • One of the bearing rings such as the lower one, can be divided into circumferentially-spaced sectors to avoid loss of pressure in all sectors.
  • a plurality of bearing devices forming pistons and cylinders can be confined to a track and biased apart by pressured fluid, so the bearing devices support the turret on the vessel hull.
  • the upper bearing structure is useful for vessels used in a variety applications, including the production of hydrocarbons from undersea wells, and for drilling vessels that drill such wells.

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  1. Offshore-System, das einen Schiffsrumpf (212), der im Meer schwimmt und wetterwendisch ist und eine vertikale Öffnung (16) bildet, einen Revolverkopf (206), der in der Öffnung angeordnet ist, eine Verankerungsstruktur (22), die sich vom Revolverkopf zum Meeresboden erstreckt, sowie eine Lagerstruktur (32) umfasst, welche den Revolverkopft drehbar auf dem Schiff lagert und die eine obere Lageranordnung (200) umfasst, worin:
    die obere Lageranordnung ein oberes und ein unteres Lagerteil (204, 210) umfasst, die Lagerflächen (232, 238) aufweisen, die im Wesentlichen einander zugewandt sind, wobei das obere Lagerteilmit dem Revolverkopf verbunden ist und das untere Lagerteil mit dem Rumpf verbunden ist;
    eine Vielzahl einzelner Lagervorrichtungen (202), die zwischen der oberen und der unteren Lagerfläche liegen, wobei jede Vorrichtung ein oberes und ein unteres Element (224, 226) mit Deck- und Unterflächen (230, 234) aufweist, die jeweils gegen die obere und die untere Lagerfläche anliegen, wobei die Elemente in Bezug auf zumindest eine der Lagerflächen gleiten können, und wobei das obere und das untere Element voneinander beabstandet vorgespannt aber in Bezug aufeinander weitgehend vertikal beweglich sind;
    jede der Lagervorrichtungen einen Durchmesser aufweist, der größer als seine Höhe, gemessen zwischen der Deck- und der Unterfläche, ist, um dadurch trotz Bewegung für Stabilität zu sorgen.
  2. System nach Anspruch 1, worin:
    eines der Elemente einen Zylinder (224) bildet und das andere einen Kolben (226) bildet, wobei ein Kolbenabschnitt innerhalb des Zylinders liegt, und eine radiale Dichtung (292) umfasst, die zwischen einer Außenseite des Kolbens und einer Innenseite des Zylinders dicht abschließt, wobei ein ausreichender Abstand
    zwischen der Außenseite des Kolbens und der Innenseite des Zylinders vorhanden ist, damit sich das obere und das untere Element einer jeden der Lagervorrichtungen um zumindest 0,5° in Bezug aufeinander neigen können, damit sich der Schiffsrumpf Verformen kann, während er den Revolverkopf weiterhin in reibungsarmer Drehung trägt.
  3. System nach Anspruch 1, worin:
    der untere Lagerteil konzentrische innere und äußere Führungswände (220, 222) aufweist, die eine kreisförmige Führung (214) zwischen diesen bilden, wobei die Lagervorrichtungen zwischen den Führungen liegen, und wobei Schmiermittel (240) auf der unteren Lagerfläche befindlich und zwischen den Führungswänden begrenzt ist.
  4. System nach Anspruch 1, worin:
    die Elemente einen Hohlraum zwischen diesen bilden und Mittel umfassen, um mit Druckfluid (240) auf den Hohlraum zu wirken, um die Elemente voneinander beabstandet vorzuspannen;
    ein erstes der Elemente einen Kolben (226) bildet und ein zweites der Elemente einen Zylinder (224) bildet, der zumindest einen Abschnitt des Kolbens umgibt,
    wobei eines der Elemente eine radiale Dichtung (242) aufweist, die mit dem anderen der Elemente abdichtet, wenn sich der Kolben vertikal in Bezug auf den Zylinder bewegt, und wobei der Kolben eine Öffnung aufweist, die zu einer entsprechenden der Lagerflächen führt und einen peripheren Abschnitt (234) um die Öffnung herum aufweist, der gegen die entsprechende Lagerfläche abgedichtet ist, und wobei die Öffnung einen Großteil der Fläche innerhalb des abgedichteten peripheren Abschnitts einnimmt.
  5. System nach Anspruch 1, worin:
    die Lagervorrichtungen in einem Ring liegen und zumindest eine Reserve-Lagervorrichtung umfassen, die im Ring und zwischen dem oberen-und dem unteren Lagerteil liegt;
    wobei die Reserve-Lagervorrichtung ein oberes und ein unteres Element aufweist, die nicht voneinander beabstandet vorgespannt sind und die das obere Lagerteil nicht auf dem unteren Lagerteil tragen, wodurch eine Reserve gebildet wird, um eine der Lagervorrichtungen zu ersetzen, ohne dass die Reserve zwischen den oberen und den unteren Lagerteil in Position gebracht werden muss.
  6. Verfahren zur Lagerung eines Revolverkopfes, der ein oberes Lagerteil mit einer oberen Lagerfläche aufweist, auf einem Schiffsrumpf, der ein unteres Lagerteil mit einer unteren Lagerfläche aufweist, wobei die Lagerflächen einander im Wesentlichen zugewandt sind, umfassend:
    das Schaffen eines Kreises aus Mengen an unter Druck stehendem Öl, die in Abwärtsrichtung gesehen jeweils ein oberes und ein unteres Ende und eine vorbestimmte Fläche aufweisen, zwischen den Lagerflächen, wodurch ein Großteil der Fläche eines ersten Endes je der Menge direkt gegen eine erste der Lagerflächen drücken kann, während ein Umfang des ersten Endes der Menge von einem ersten Element begrenzt ist, das entlang der ersten Oberfläche gleiten kann, und die Position eines zweiten Endes einer jeden Menge auf eine zweite der Lagerflächen fixiert wird.
  7. Verfahren nach Anspruch 6, worin:
    der Schritt des Fixierens eines zweiten Endes das Begrenzen des zweiten Endes einer jeden Menge durch ein zweites Element umfasst, das am zweiten Lagerteil befestigt ist und das vertikal in Bezug auf ein entsprechendes der ersten Elemente gleiten kann, während eine radiale Dichtung zwischen den Elementen bereitgestellt wird.
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