WO2001088323A1 - Automated riser recoil control system and method - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to a system and method for providing a motion-compensated drilling rig platform. More particularly, the invention relates to an automated system and method which can be used to control marine riser disconnection events and riser tensioner wireline breaks in conjunction with such a platform.
- Drilling operations conducted from a floating vessel require a flexible tensioning system which operates to secure the riser conductor between the ocean floor (at the well head) and the rig, or vessel.
- the tensioning system acts to reduce the effects of vessel heave with respect to the riser, control the effects of both planned and unplanned riser disconnect operations, and to mitigate the problems created by unexpected breaks or faults in the riser (hereinafter a "disconnect event").
- Riser tensioner devices which form the heart of the tensioning system, have been designed to assist in the management of riser conductors attached to drilling rigs, especially with respect to movement caused by periodic vessel heave.
- a series of these tensioners connected to the riser using cables and sheaves, react to relative movement between the ocean floor and the vessel by adjusting the cable length to maintain a relatively constant tension on the riser.
- Any number of tensioners, typically deployed in pairs, may be used to suspend a single riser from the vessel .
- Unexpected events may occur during offshore drilling operations. These may be realized in the form of tensioner wireline breaks, severe storms, or other circumstances which require the vessel/rig operator to act quickly to adjust the tension applied to the riser.
- the riser may also become disconnected from the wellhead for various reasons . ,
- the need to respond to an unexpected riser disconnect event, or tensioner wireline break, and manage the recoil tension or "slingshot" effect on the vessel induced thereby, provides the motivation to develop an automated system and method to control the movement of individual tensioners .
- the system and method should operate by managing the tension applied to the riser using the cables attached to the riser and the riser tensioners in response to sensing an irregular travel velocity experienced by one or more of the tensioners, such as may be caused by a disconnect event or tensioner wireline break.
- the system and method should be simple, robust, and fully automatic, such that system elements are capable of responding to and continuously managing a disconnect event or tensioner wireline break in an automated fashion more rapidly and reliably than is possible using human operators.
- the automated riser recoil control system includes a plurality of riser tensioners, a vessel heave measurement system, and a control processor in electrical communication with the heave measurement system and the riser tensioners.
- Each tensioner includes a piston travel indicator which provides a piston travel signal to the processor, while the vessel heave measurement system provides a heave velocity signal to the processor.
- the processor monitors each of the piston travel signals along with the heave velocity signal so as to be able to determine whether a preselected number of piston travel velocities (determined from the piston travel signals) exceed the vessel heave velocity by some critical velocity difference. For example, if sixteen riser tensioners are used to suspend the marine riser from the heaving vessel, and at least four of the tensioners show a piston travel velocity which exceeds the heave velocity by more than about one foot per second (value is typically between about 4-6 feet/second cable speed or about 1.25 feet/second tensioner piston velocity) , then the processor, which is in controlling communication with each one of the riser tensioners, can react by controlling the force applied to the riser by controlling the rate of fluid flow within one or more of the tensioners .
- each of the riser tensioners includes an accumulator chamber (blind end of the tensioner) and a piston bore chamber (rod end side of the tensioner) , and the fluid flow is controlled within the piston bore chamber.
- an orifice-controlled fluid valve is typically placed in fluid communication with the piston bore chamber.
- an air shutoff valve is typically placed in fluid communication with the accumulator chamber and a bank of high pressure air cylinders. Timers may be applied to adjust the time within which the orifice-controlled fluid valves and air shutoff valves are closed.
- a fluid volume speed control valve may also act to limit the volumetric rate of fluid flow in the piston bore chamber upon sensing an extreme fluid flow rate within the tensioner.
- a method for adjusting at least one of the tension forces applied by the tensioners to the riser includes the steps of determining the piston travel velocity for each riser tensioner, measuring the heave velocity of the vessel, calculating the velocity differences between each of the piston travel velocities and the heave velocity, and adjusting the tension force after determining that some preselected number of the velocity differences exceeds a preselected critical velocity difference (selected by the operator) .
- control of the tension force is typically effected by throttling the rate of at least one fluid flow within one or more of the plurality of riser tensioners.
- Air shutoff valves, orifice-controlled fluid valves, and fluid volume speed control valves are all used as previously described.
- Figure 1 is a planar side view of the automated riser recoil control system of the present invention mounted to a heaving vessel from which a marine riser is suspended;
- Figure 2 is a close-up perspective view of a typical riser tensioner (in dual form) ;
- Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram of the automated riser recoil control system ' of the present invention.
- Figure 4 is a flow chart diagram of the method of the present invention.
- the automated riser recoil control system (10) of the present invention includes a plurality of riser tensioners (20) in mechanical communication with a heaving vessel (30) and a marine riser (60) .
- Each one of the tensioners (20) applies a corresponding individual tension force (FI, F2) to the riser (60) under heaving conditions, as the vessel (30) responds to ocean wave movement.
- the tension forces (FI, F2) are applied to the riser (FI, F2) to the riser (60) under heaving conditions, as the vessel (30) responds to ocean wave movement.
- F2 are substantially proportional to the rate of at least one fluid flow within the tensioner.
- the individual riser tensioners (20) are ' substantially equivalent to, or identical to, the cable tensioners disclosed in U.S. Patent Nos . 4,351,261 and/or 4,638,978 (incorporated herein by reference in their entirety) .
- Each riser tensioner (20) may also be similar to or identical to each of the tensioners that make up the dual tensioner depicted in Figure 2, which may be purchased from Retsco International, L.P. as Retsco Part No. 112552.
- each riser tensioner (20) includes a tensioner piston travel indicator (27) which may be a wireline encoder that supplies a distance travel signal for the piston within the tensioner (20) .
- the travel indicator (27) may also take the form of a velocity measurement device, or an acceleration measurement device. In any event, the travel indicator (27) provides a signal which indicates the travel of the piston within the tensioner (20) as the cable (40) moves in reaved engagement with the sheaves (50) and the riser (60) .
- the riser tensioner (20) typically includes an accumulator chamber in fluid communication with an air shutoff valve (110) and a piston bore chamber in fluid communication with an orifice- controlled fluid valve (120) . To prevent extreme movement of the tensioner piston, a fluid volume speed control valve
- the air shutoff valve (110) may be equivalent to or identical to Retsco International, L.P. Part No. 113045.
- the orifice-control fluid valve (120) may be equivalent to or identical to Retsco International, L.P. Part No. 113001.
- the fluid volume speed control valve (130) may be equivalent to or identical to Retsco International, L.P. Part No. 113102.
- the automated riser recoil system (10) operates to control the tension forces (FI, F2) applied to the riser (60) using the cables (40) in reaved engagement with the sheaves (50) of the tensioners (20) , the downturn sheaves (55) , and the riser (60) .
- the tensioners (20) respond in a passive fashion by playing out, or taking up, cable (40) in phase with the movement of the vessel (30) . This results in the application of substantially even forces (FI, F2) to the riser as it is suspended from a vessel (30) and connected to the wellhead (80) .
- each tensioner (20) is relatively large (e.g., each tensioner supplies about 100,000 lbs. of force)
- the tensioner piston subjected to the wireline break will tend to move quite rapidly in reaction to the resulting lack of tension.
- the marine riser may become disconnected from the wellhead (80) due to unanticipated causes, or as a planned event (e.g., it is necessary to move the vessel (30) rapidly away from the drilling site in order to avoid a severe storm or other events) .
- control processor (70) in, electrical communication with each one of the tensioner piston travel indicators (27) and the vessel heave measurement system
- each individual tensioner (20) supplies a piston travel signal (28) using communication line (26) to the processor (70) .
- the travel indicator (27) may be replaced by a velocimeter or an accelerometer to provide velocity and/or acceleration signals (28) directly to the processor (70) , as described above.
- the heave measurement system (210) provides a heave velocity signal (215) to the processor (70) .
- the vessel heave measurement system typically includes one or more tri-axial accelerometers and a bi-axis tilt sensor coupled to a processor which calculates heave, pitch and roll of the vessel.
- a piston distance travel signal or piston velocity signal, or piston acceleration signal
- the processor (70) it is converted to a velocity signal (as needed) and compared with the velocity signal (215) provided by the heave measurement system (210) .
- the heave measurement system (210) may provide a distance signal or acceleration signal, which may be converted into a velocity signal, as needed.
- the processor (70) is thus in electrical communication with each one of the tensioner piston travel indicators (27) and the vessel heave measurement system (210) and is thereby enabled to monitor each of the piston travel signals (28) and the heave velocity signal (215) .
- control and communication signal lines (29, 179 and 181) can be used to place the processor (70) in controlling communication (i.e., electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, or some combination of these) with any number of other tensioners (20') .
- the tensioner (20') can supply a piston travel signal to the processor (70) using the signal line (181) .
- the tensioner (20') may, in turn, be controlled by the processor (70) using the air shutoff control valve signal line (179) and the orifice-controlled fluid valve signal line
- tensioners (20, 20') can be placed in controlling communication with the processor (70) in this fashion.
- the processor (70) can operate to control the fluid (24) flow within the tensioner (20) , typically using the orifice-controlled fluid valve (120) to control the fluid flow (24) within the piston bore chamber (23) .
- the processor (70) may also operate to control the air shutoff valve (110) , which controls the flow of air from the bank of cylinders (140) and the accumulator chamber (25) of the tensioner (20) .
- the processor (70) may send a throttling signal (178) to the orifice-control fluid valve
- a delay timer (180) can be used to delay the onset of valve closure for the valve (120) from the time that the signal
- a delay timer (170) may be inserted into the communication line between the processor (70) and the valve (110) so as to delay the onset of the air valve (110) closure from the time the signal (177) is asserted.
- the signals (177', 178') represent delayed signals (177, 178) respectively.
- additional timers may also be inserted into the communication lines (179, 181) .
- the timer delay periods can be zero, or any other value selected by the system (10) operator.
- the method begins at step (400), with determining the piston travel velocities for all of the tensioners (20) used to suspend the riser (50) from the vessel (30) . As mentioned above, this typically occurs after receiving the piston travel signals supplied from the indicator (27) attached to each of the tensioners (20) .
- the method continues in step (410) with measuring the heave velocity experienced by the heaving vessel (30) as it reacts to wave motion.
- the heave velocity is typically determined by the processor (70) using the signal supplied from the heave measurement system (210) , which indicates the heave velocity of the vessel (30) .
- the method then continues by calculating a plurality of velocity differences, wherein each one of the velocity differences corresponds to the difference between a selected one of the piston travel velocities and the heave velocity. This occurs in step (420) .
- a selected number of velocity differences (determined in step (420) ) exceeds a preselected critical velocity difference (typically selected by the operator) , as determined in step (430)
- the tension force applied by one or more of the tensioners (20) is adjusted. This occurs in step (440) .
- The- tension force (FI) may be adjusted by throttling the rate of the fluid flow within the tensioner using the orifice-controlled fluid valve (120) (step 450) , controlling the air flow within the tensioner accumulator chamber using the air shutoff valve (110) (step 460) , or controlling the volumetric rate of flow within the tensioner using the fluid volume speed control valve (130) (step 470) .
- the orifice-controlled fluid valves (120) are typically set to a preselected flow limit value in the static condition (e.g., 50% of the maximum value) , and are modulated to some selected flow rate between about 10% to about 95%, and most preferably to about 15% of the maximum flow rate permitted by the fully-opened valves (120) .
- timers (170, 180) can be inserted into the valve control lines for each of the tensioners (20) to delay the application of valve closure/throttling signals from the processor (70) to each selected tensioner (20) .
- a timer (170) can be used to delay closure of the air shutoff valve (110) for a preselected delay time after the processor (70) has determined that the preselected number of velocity differences calculated in step (420) exceed the preselected critical velocity difference.
- the timer (180) may be used to delay closure or throttling of the orifice-controlled fluid valve (120) for a preselected time period after determining that a preselected number of the velocity differences calculated in step (420) exceeds a preselected critical velocity difference .
- the tension force (FI) applied by a tensioner (20) can thus be adjusted in a number of ways. The most common is by throttling the rate of at least one fluid flow within the selected tensioners. As mentioned above, this usually occurs by closing orifice-controlled fluid valves and air shutoff valves.
- the fluid volume speed control valve may operate independently, which acts to limit the volumetric rate of fluid flow in the tensioner piston bore chamber.
- the fluid volume speed control valve is typically not operated by the processor (70) , but reacts to sensing a predetermined volumetric rate of flow which exceeds a predetermined critical volumetric rate of flow, as may be selected by the designer of the fluid volume speed control valve.
- "fluid" may be considered to be air, oil, water, or any other substantially non-solid medium which is used to control movement of the tensioners.
- the processor (70) is in electrical communication with the tensioner piston travel indicators (27) and the heave measurement system (210) , and is thus able to continuously or discretely (at periodic or aperiodic intervals) determine the velocity of each individual riser tensioner piston (100) and that of the heaving vessel (30) .
- the processor (70) adjusts the tension force applied by each tensioner (20) by controlling the rate of at least one fluid flow within each tensioner.
- the processor can be a microprocessor with a memory and program module, computer work station, a programmable logic controller, an embedded processor, a signal processor, or any other means capable of receiving the distance/velocity/ acceleration signals provided by the tensioner piston travel indicators and the heave measurement system, and deriving velocities therefrom
- the processor (70) must also ' be capable of calculating velocity differences between each of the pistons traveling within the riser tensioners, and the vessel heave velocity; comparing the velocity differences to a single critical velocity difference; counting the number of velocity differences which exceed the single critical velocity difference (for comparison to the preselected limit number) ; and .commanding a preselected number of riser tensioners to adjust their individual tension forces applied to the riser.
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