Umbilicals and risers need to be designed for each specific oil and gas field, since conditions vary dramatically between them.
Facts
Areas of expertise include:
- field development studies
- global strength analysis, connected and disconnected
- detailed fatigue analysis for flexible risers, Bflex
- VIV analysis
- on-bottom stability analysis
- free-span analysis
- crossing analysis
- interference analysis
- wear analysis
- installation analysis
- J-tube pull-in analysis
- coupled analysis for interface details
- flexible and steel catenary risers.
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One highly experienced and dedicated team covers your riser and umbilical needs both today and tomorrow
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Our expertise helps to design riser and umbilical configurations to optimise your cross-section and to ensure safe operation throughout a field’s producing life.
We perform global strength analysis, including operational and accidental conditions as well as fatigue, vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and interference analysis.
Before challenging conditions arise, you need to know how your risers will behave and what they can withstand. Optimising your configurations at an early stage with a fit-for-purpose field architectural design will help to maintain focus on the individual riser or umbilical.
Our specialists perform all kinds of analyses using a combination of standard software packages for slender marine structures and specialised programmes – such as Bflex for detailed analysis of interactions and utilisation of the different layers in a flexible riser.
Deep insight into a wide variety of structures and their complex wear and tear scenarios makes us one of the market leaders for risers and umbilicals.
Tools include:
- Flexcom
- Vivana
- Shear7
- Bflex
- Abaqus
- Usfos
- Hyber
- Orcaflex.