Paper

Design and Development of Track-Keeping Devicefor Underwater Production Equipment of Semi-Submersible Platform

2019/8/22 10:40:07

Abstract No.C171229-090

Author name(s): Ruijia ZHOU1, Wei CHU2, Zhen YANG3, Yunfeng ZHANG4

Company: 1. Shanghai Maritime University, China; 2. CSSC Cruise Technology Development Co., Ltd., China; 3. Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., China; 4. Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding and Offshore Co., Ltd., China

 

In descending process, underwater production equipment may collide with the platform structure when it pass through the moon pool area due to the platform¡¯s swing, which would threat the safety of equipment and platform itself. This thesis designed and developed a simple and fully dismantled track-keeping device. With the X-mas tree guiding arm, or drill pipe guiding arm, the track-keeping device can be applied to different sizes of underwater production equipment for stabilization in descending process. Compared with procurement cost for mechanical guiding equipment, the manufacturing cost of this track-keeping device is significantly reduced. Therefore the device has an extensive application value in the field of marine oil and gas extraction engineering.

 

KEY WORDS: semi-submersible platform; underwater production equipment; X-mas tree; track-keeping device; FEA

 

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