Overview of Offshore Structural

Engineering for Project Management

16 August 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PLATFORM TYPES
3. FIELD LAYOUT
4. PLATFORM TERMINOLOGY
5. FIXED OFFSHORE PLATFORM DESIGN
6. INFORMATION FLOW

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1. INTRODUCTION
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Liquid and Gas, Drilling and Living Quarter.

1. INTRODUCTION
Onshore &
offshore

Liquefaction
Reinjection
compressors

Onshore Oil & Gas

Field Facilities

GTL

Methane (C1)

Associated Gas
&
Non Associated Gas

Regional
consumers
-Power plant
-Fuel gas

Gas Processing Plant

Steam
cracker
(Ethylene)

Ethane (C2)

C3/C4
C5-12

Offshore Oil & Gas

Field Facilities

C5-20
CO2

Sulphur

Water

Petrochemicals
- Methanol
- Ammonia
- Hydrogen

LPG
Gasoline
Condensate

2. PLATFORM TYPES
Fixed Platform
Floating Platform
Subsea

3. FIELD LAYOUT
Fixed Platform Field Layout (Sample)

3. FIELD LAYOUT

3. FIELD LAYOUT
Floating Platform Field Layout (Sample)

3. FIELD LAYOUT

4. TERMINOLOGY

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4. TERMINOLOGY
Jacket / Sub-structure
Leg
Horizontal framing
Conductor framing
Can
Knee braces
Sea deck walkway
Conductors
Curved
Straight
Piles
Through leg
Pile cluster / Skirt Pile
Batter v/s straight
Grouted v/s ungrouted

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4. TERMINOLOGY
Miscellaneous and Appurtenances
Risers and clamp
Caissons / casings
Boatlanding
Barge bumper / fender
J-tube
Flooding / grouting tube
Launch cradle
Mudmat
Anodes

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5. FIXED OFFSHORE PLATFORM DESIGN

Code and Standard
Weight Control
Structural Analysis and Design
Structural Software

Code and Standard

Structural Design must comply with the following Code and Standard :
International Code and Standard
American Petroleum Institute (API), International Standard Organization (ISO),
American Institute of Steel Construction(AISC), American Welding Society (AWS)

Local Government Regulation

Department of Mineral Fuels, (,

Owner Specification
Chevron (CES), PTTEP (TOTAL and Arthit), etc.

Classification Body Specification, if required

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Lloyds Register
of Shipping, Bureau Veritas (BV), Germanisher Lloyds

Warranty Surveyor Specification

(Insurance Company for Temporary Phase)
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Weight Control
Purpose :
For monitoring the weight and centre of gravity (C.O.G) of all
component parts of a platform
Platfrom weight and Center of Gravity (CoG) is Critical for:
Fabrication and Ladout
Capacity of support foundation during fabrication
Loadout reaction to confirm loadout equipment and skid beams

Offshore Installation
Capacity of sea transportation and offshore lifting barge/vessel

Platform Operating Condition

Benchmark of platform weight and CoG for structural integrity check

Estimation of Weight and CoG is usually confirmed through Weighting

before Loadout

Weight Control
Contingency and Tolerances :
Expressed in terms of a percentage of Base Weight are to allow for weight
changes due to the uncertainty of the data, lack of design or final selected
vendor data.
Sample of Contingency and Tolerances Percentage

Weight Control
Responsibilities :
Lead Structural Engineer
Assign weight control engineer on the project
Interface, co-ordinate and collect weight data from discipline

Weight Control Engineer

Responsible for recording and compiling the weight and centre of gravity
information from all disciplines for generating the weight report

Lead Discipline Engineer

Responsible for providing all the necessary information including the weight
and COG information of items associated with their disciplines
Updating weight and CoG information

Structural Analysis and Design

Design Loading :
Dead Loads (Gravity)
- Self weight (Computer generated)
- Miscellaneous Dead Weight (Hand-Coded)
- Equipment, Piping, Instrument and Electrical Dead Weight
- Internal Flood water
- Buoyancy

Live Loads (Movable or Changeable)

- Content in Vessels, Equipments and Piping
- Storage
- Personnel
- Crane Lifting weight
- Helicopter
- Tender Assisted Drilling Rig
- Well Servicing Load
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Open Area Live Load

Structural Analysis and Design

Design Loading :
Operating and Storm Condition
Environmental Loads
- Water Depth and Tidal Variation
- Wave
-Current, i.e., Wind Generated and Tidal
- Wind
- Additional Wave Load
- On appurtenance item, i.e. anode
- Marine Growth
- Wave slamming

- Snow/Ice
- Earthquake

Structural Analysis and Design

Design Loading :
Accidental Loads
- Boat Impact
- Fire
- Explosion / Blast
- Drop Object
- Accidental Flooding

Pre-Service Loads
- Motion Force
- Mating Load

Structural Analysis and Design

Structural Analysis :
In-service Conditions
- In-place
- Dynamic
- Fatigue
- Non-linear Pushover
- Seismic

Pre-service Conditions
- Loadout
- Transportation
- Lifting
- Launch
- Floating
- Upending
- On-bottom Stability
- Pile Stick-up & Drivability
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Structural Analysis and Design

Structural Software : SACS

Global Response determined from Finite Element Analysis

- Usually sufficient with 2-noded beam element

Computer program will automatically

- Generate Gravity and Environmental Loads
- Consider non-linear pile-soil interaction
- Perform topside and jacket member
and joint code check
- Calculate Pile UC and Safety of Factor

Structural Analysis and Design

Structural Software : USFOS
Non-linear structural analysis, i.e., Pushover, Fire and Blast, Non-linear
Seismic Time History

Structural Analysis and Design

Structural Software : MOSES
- Barge Stability
- Transportation
- Floating, Launch and Upending

Structural Analysis and Design

Structural Software : NASTRAN
- General Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

Local Analysis of Connection

FEA of Pile Cluster

Structural Software : GRLWEAP

- Pile Drivability

Structural Analysis and Design

Structural Software : BOCAD
- 3D Structural model
- 2D drawings
- MTO
- Cutting Plan

Structural Analysis and Design

Structural Software : PDMS
- 3D Structural model
- Clash Check
- Weight Take off and CoG

6. FLOW OF INFORMATION
Flow of Information during Execution Stage
Required Information

Company Specifications
Company Reference/Standard Drawings
Site Environment Data
Geotechnical/Soil Data

Internal Information
Piping Plot Plan / Equipment Layout
Mechanical Equipment List and weight
E&I Equipment List and weight
Safety Drop object, Fire and Blast study

Vendor Drawing
Equipment Dimension and weight

Offshore Structural

Client

Deliverables
Document and Report
Basis of Design
Project Specification
Weight Control Report
Design Calculation Report
Other Documents
Site Survey Report
MTO
BOM
Drawing
General Note and Standard Drawing
Topside Drawings
Jacket & Pile Drawings
Demolition Drawings
Offshore Installation Sequence
Drawings
3D BOCAD model
3D PDMS model

Thank you

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