WO2002087962A1 - Disconnectable riser tensioning buoy - Google Patents
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- WO2002087962A1 WO2002087962A1 PCT/NO2002/000152 NO0200152W WO02087962A1 WO 2002087962 A1 WO2002087962 A1 WO 2002087962A1 NO 0200152 W NO0200152 W NO 0200152W WO 02087962 A1 WO02087962 A1 WO 02087962A1
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B7/00—Special methods or apparatus for drilling
- E21B7/12—Underwater drilling
- E21B7/128—Underwater drilling from floating support with independent underwater anchored guide base
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING
- B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
- B63B21/50—Anchoring arrangements or methods for special vessels, e.g. for floating drilling platforms or dredgers
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING
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- B63B22/021—Buoys specially adapted for mooring a vessel and for transferring fluids, e.g. liquids
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING
- B63B1/00—Hydrodynamic or hydrostatic features of hulls or of hydrofoils
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- B63B1/10—Hydrodynamic or hydrostatic features of hulls or of hydrofoils deriving lift mainly from water displacement with multiple hulls
- B63B1/107—Semi-submersibles; Small waterline area multiple hull vessels and the like, e.g. SWATH
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING
- B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
- B63B21/50—Anchoring arrangements or methods for special vessels, e.g. for floating drilling platforms or dredgers
- B63B2021/505—Methods for installation or mooring of floating offshore platforms on site
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING
- B63B39/00—Equipment to decrease pitch, roll, or like unwanted vessel movements; Apparatus for indicating vessel attitude
- B63B39/06—Equipment to decrease pitch, roll, or like unwanted vessel movements; Apparatus for indicating vessel attitude to decrease vessel movements by using foils acting on ambient water
- B63B2039/067—Equipment to decrease pitch, roll, or like unwanted vessel movements; Apparatus for indicating vessel attitude to decrease vessel movements by using foils acting on ambient water effecting motion dampening by means of fixed or movable resistance bodies, e.g. by bilge keels
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING
- B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
- B63B35/44—Floating buildings, stores, drilling platforms, or workshops, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
- B63B35/4413—Floating drilling platforms, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
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- This invention regards a riser bearing buoy for drilling operations offshore, which buoy is disconnectable from a drilling vessel, and where the riser in a well extends up to the surface of the sea.
- a floating drilling platform or other suitable vessel equipped with the necessary drilling tools is in accordance with known techniques brought to the drilling site, where it is moored. Mention may be made of the fact that vessels using so-called dynamic positioning, where moorings are not used, are known. Dynamic positioning is relatively expensive and entails a danger of the vessel drifting under unfavourable conditions. After anchoring and rigging has been carried out, the first liners and the foundation frame are put in place.
- a wellhead containing the necessary valves is lowered to the seabed and connected to the, foundation frame.
- a riser is lowered, the lower end portion of which is connected to the wellhead.
- the upper end portion of the riser is connected to the platform via a heave compensator device, often in the form of one or more cylinders designed to maintain relatively constant tension in the riser, also during heaving of the platform.
- the object of the invention is to remedy the disadvantages of prior art.
- a buoy Prior to the drilling operations being initiated, a buoy is placed over the drilling site.
- the buoy is anchored according to techniques that are known per se, and with sufficient strength to take up the anchoring forces from the buoy and from a platform. Combinations of anchoring and dynamic positioning may also be used.
- the buoy is lowered to a freeboard that enables a drilling platform to be moved in over the buoy without the tie bar of the platform conflicting with the buoy.
- the buoy is arranged in a space between the pontoons of the platform and two tie bars, and vertically below the drilling means of the platform.
- the platform is equipped with guide means that fit into vertical guides along the two end walls of the buoy in a
- the platform is lowered along the buoy guides until it reaches a predetermined deepdraught relative to the buoy.
- the buoy is then coupled to the platform, e.g. by means of air filled clamping bellows of a type that is known pero se.
- the platform is kept in position by the buoy anchors.
- the liners and the foundation frame are then placed on/in the seabed.
- the wellhead with the requisite valves and risers is then lowered from the platform down through a verticals through bore in the buoy, and further down to the seabed, where it is connected to the subsea template.
- the riser is connected to the tension cylinders of the buoy designed to maintain relatively constant tension in theo riser.
- the platform is raised to its working draught together with the buoy, whereupon well operations such as e.g. drilling, injection, production and well maintenance may be carried out.
- the platform and the buoy are raised to storm draught.
- the tension cylinders of the buoy are constructed so as to have sufficient length of movement also in this relatively high position in the sea, to take up the heaving motion of the buoy.
- the valve on the seabed may be closed, and the platform can leave the buoy while the riser is still connected between the bottom valve and the buoy.
- Several production wells may be connected to the same buoy by each riser being provided with a separate tensioning system.
- Figure 1 is a schematic side view of a platform, showing a section through a buoy, and where the platform is positioned over the buoy;
- Figure 2 shows a section I-I in figure 1;
- Figure 3 schematically shows the same as figure 1, but here the platform has been lowered to a suitable deepdraught for lowering of the wellhead.
- the wellhead is on its way down through the vertical through opening of the buoy;
- Figure 4 schematically shows the same as figure 3, but here the lower end portion of the riser is connected to the wellhead, and the upper end portion is connected to the buoy via several tension cylinders;
- Figure 5 schematically shows the same as figure 4, but here the platform and the buoy have been raised to the normal working draught;
- Figure 6 shows the platform and the buoy in figure 5 raised to a storm draught;
- Figure 7 shows the buoy in a situation where the platform is temporarily disconnected from the buoy.
- reference number 1 denotes a buoy according to the invention, comprising tension cylinders 2, a vertical through bore 4 and guides 6.
- the buoy 1 is anchored via an anchor system 8, and has an adjustable deepdraught, e.g. by means of ballast control, underneath the surface of the sea 9.
- a drilling platform 10 of a type that is known per se is arranged around the buoy 1 in an enclosing manner.
- the buoy 1 is located between the pontoons 12 and the tie bars 14 of the platform 1, so that the vertical opening 4 of the buoy 1 substantially coincides with the drilling axis 16 of the platform 10.
- the platform 10 is connected to the buoy 1 by means of fastening devices 18 located between the pontoons 12 and the buoy 1.
- the fastening devices 18 may comprise e.g. air filled clamping bellows of a type that is known per se.
- the platform 10 is moved in over the buoy 1 to a position such that the drilling axis 16 of the platform 10 substantially coincides with the opening 4 of the buoy 1, see figures 1 and 2.
- the platform 10 is then lowered into the sea along the guides 6 until it assumes the correct depth relative to the buoy 1, see figure 3, whereupon the platform 10 is connected to the buoy by means of the fastening devices 18.
- This depth corresponds to the preferred depth of the platform during the placement of a wellhead 20 on the seabed 22.
- the wellhead 20 is on its way down through the vertical opening 4 of the buoy 1.
- a riser 24 is lowered through the opening 4 and coupled to the wellhead 20 in the conventional manner.
- the tension cylinders 2 are connected to the riser 24 below the flexible link 26 of the riser, see figure 4, whereupon the riser 24 is subjected to a tensile force comprising the net weight of the riser 24 and any tensioning by the tension cylinders 2.
- the platform 10 and the buoy 1 are then raised to the normal working draught, see figure 5, whereby the platform is ready for the actual drilling operations.
- the platform 10 and the buoy 1 are raised together to storm draught, see figure 6.
- the tension cylinders 2 are constructed so as to be able to take up heave motion also in this draught position. Thus it is not necessary to disconnect the 24 riser from the wellhead 20 in bad weather.
- the platform 10 may also leave the buoy 1 without the riser 24 having to be taken up in advance, the tension device 2 being designed to function without the platform 10 being in place over the buoy 1.
- the riser 24 and the bottom valve 20 may be disconnected from the foundation frame of the well and be moved sideways, so as allow the start-up of a new well with the riser 24 and the bottom valve 20 suspended in the sea.
- the device according to the invention allows more preparatory work for well drilling to be carried out before the relatively expensive drilling platform 10 has to be brought to the drilling site.
- a further advantageous feature of the device is that the unplanned drilling downtime caused by bad weather may be reduced considerably.
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NO20012079A NO20012079L (en) | 2001-04-27 | 2001-04-27 | Detachable riser drawbar |
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US4913238A (en) * | 1989-04-18 | 1990-04-03 | Exxon Production Research Company | Floating/tensioned production system with caisson |
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