Course Modules - Offshore Pipeline Design and Installation

To provide the student with a detailed knowledge of all aspects of design and installation of offshore pipelines.

Overview of Components – Pipelines, risers, valves, pig launchers/receivers and flow metering equipment
Introduction to Design Procedures – Physical properties, stress analysis, buckling and collapse, strain-based design
Fluid flow through pipes – Basic hydrodynamics, multiphase flow, hydrate formation/prevention, wax formation/prevention
Pipelines Steels – Effect of processing: normalised quenched and tempered, thermo-mechanically treated and accelerated cooled steels. Seamless, HFERW and UOE manufacturing processes, corrosion resistant steels
Design for installation – S-lay, J-lay, deepwater, calculation of tensions, reeling
Thermal coatings – Requirements, selection and application of coating, field joint coating systems
Pipelay Methods – Laybarge configurations, anchor handling /DP, Reel barge, pipeline bundles, ‘pipe in pipe’, factors affecting productivity

On successful completion of this module the student will:

Understand the basic procedures in offshore pipeline design and installation
Be able to select appropriate components for an installation
Have a knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of different pipelaying techniques
Understand the problems caused by fluids carried within pipelines