Mathcad in Oil & Gas

Thomas Devaraj, Senior Application Engineer PTC

February 2010
2010 PTC 2
Major O&G Companies are Standardising on Mathcad
Maersk, Drilling Operations
Audit requirements to ISO 5167 on metering devices for
oil/gas flow. Excel made iterations difficult and little
transparency. Mathcad is used for all auditing/checking.
Previous tools written reports, calculators,
spreadsheets, programming solutions, etc
Smith Rea, Metering Performance
Subsea7, Pipelines & Structures
Mathcad used to analyse and communicate drilling
performance calculations between on-shore and
offshore teams resulted in significant drilling
performance and production improvements
Mathcad is the critical tool for performing & documenting
all pipeline and structural calculations to ISO and DNV
specifications.
Oil & Gas
2010 PTC 3
Conceptual
Design
Role of Mathcad in Engineering & Product Development
Detail
Design
Analysis
Tooling
&
Mfg
Validation
&
Prototype
Validation
and Tech
Pubs
Product
Requirements

To design and engineer effectively and efficiently, engineering
calculations must be captured and re-used as critical intellectual
property (IP)

Mathcad leverages engineering intent that cannot be captured by
the CAD systems and design geometry, driving design through
engineering best-practices
2009 PTC 4
Inefficiencies of Traditional Tools in capturing design intent & IP
1. Hand Calculations / Reference Material
Easy to use and everyone has it
But audit process is a complete re-work to check EVERY
calculation, correct unit-handling, etc
Its strictly a static documentation solution modifications or reusability
requires a re-write
2. Excel (& Word) ~ Pervasive, but Imperfect
Excel - live calculations but formulae hard to read auditing

difficult/lack of documentation in one tool
No units management (eg Mars Explorer issue, etc)
Prone to error re-use (90% of spreadsheets over 150 rows)
3. Programming-based Solutions
Very specialized capabilities, requires very fluent users (non-engineers)
Geared toward heavy analysis/simulation (where applicable)
Typically a high learning curve, low reusability, not for documentation

Mathcad ~ addresses clear, documented,
reusable engineering solution
2010 PTC 5
Mathcad
Intuitive
Easy to use, whiteboard interface
Natural math notation human readable
Comprehensive
Combines text, live math, graphics, and
annotations in a single worksheet
Unmatched breadth of application-
powerful mathematics functionality
Unit awareness
Automates process; repeatable &
auditable
Interoperable
Easily integrates with other engineering
applications
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correlates the experimental results.
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Integral Part of PTCs Product Development System
2006 PTC
Mathcad Capabilities
Live Numeric and Symbolic Calculations
Over 1000 built-in functions and solvers
Vectors, Matrices
2-D and 3-D graphing
Units Capabilities
Programming capabilities
Unique Provenance capabilities
Publish to a variety of formats including
pdf, rtf, html, etc.
Help, Tutorials, Quicksheets


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2010 PTC 7
Mathcad Engineering Libraries (E-books)
Key Benefits and Capabilities
Leverage standard libraries to solve design engineering problems
Gain instant electronic access to critical engineering resources
Work faster and easier using live, interactive content
Easily copy content, including live equations, from the libraries to your own worksheets
No need to recreate these libraries they are ready on day one
Three Libraries
Mathcad Electrical Engineering Library
Mathcad Mechanical Engineering Library
Mathcad Civil Engineering Library
2006 PTC

2010 PTC

Electrical
Saipem Energy International (SEI) is an offshore engineering company. SEI combines its know-
how and engineering design skills of the Saipem with its experience of construction,
management and marine operations.



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Application of Mathcad to perform a probabilistic study and plot the results. Looking for an
intuitive and light tool which could assist in performing the analysis without knowing any
programming languages

Mathcad worksheet to support decision about the subsea valves location and installation,
instead of adopting common rule-of-thumb techniques. Future work will improve the
description of the impact scenario and the pipeline response to the load. In particular, a
structural-reliability based analysis with Mathcad will be utilized for evaluating the failure
probability given the impact
Oil & Gas
Perform a Risk Assessment of Pipeline Protection (Dropped Object Study) which is a risk-based approach for assessing
pipeline protection against accidental external loads like dropped crane loads on offshore risers, pipelines and umbilicals
BUSINESS INITIATIVE
RESULTS
SOLUTION
We have chosen Mathcad due to ease of use, self-explaining, intuitive application and full capability of
developing the integral/differential equations for the probabilistic assessment; moreover the Mathcad worksheet
is easily managed by every HSED Engineer.
What you see is what you getthis is what we needed and what we gotMathcad!
Massimiliano Colombi Saipem Energy International HSED Manager

2010 PTC
Oil & Gas Reference: www.drillers.com
The Electronic Drilling
Manual:
Online mathematical
capability, which allows a
logged-in subscriber to carry
out mathematical operations
with pre-defined Mathcad
worksheets for a variety of
oilfield operations with only a
web browser.
Plan to expand this capability
to assist Drilling Engineers
and Supervisors to plan and
drill wells safely and cost
effectively.
Oil & Gas
2010 PTC
Solution: Selected Mathcad
Deployed a highly accessible tool for
calculations & documentation
Standardised on Mathcad for all engineering
calculations
Standard: Mathcad is now a best practice
Drilling performance and production
improvements resulted from more effective
calculations and communication

Oil & Gas Reference
Peter Aird
Maersk Oil

Managements Key Objectives:
Streamline communications
Improve quality
Improve performance
Situation: Used spreadsheets, hand-calcs &
best-guess to analyse and communicate
drilling performance calculations between on-
shore and offshore teams
Inconsistent results because of different
methods of calculation
Significant margins of error incorporated
due to lack of confidence in accuracy of
calculations

Oil & Gas
2010 PTC 11 11
Mathcad & Product Integrations
Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/MECHANICA
Solidworks
Bentley Microstation
AutoCAD
Inventor
ANSYS WorkBench
CATIA
ESRD StressCheck 7
Excel
National Instruments - LabView

The Complete Digital Product Definition
Pro/ENGINEER answers the question of WHAT the design is and Mathcad
answers the question of WHY the design was done that way.
WHAT? WHY?
Pro/ENGINEER Mathcad
2010 PTC 12
Mathcad 14 & Pro/E WF 5.0 in Structural applications
2010 PTC 13
Cross section properties stored in Excel components

Beam calculations using Excel data performed in Mathcad

Beam requirements specs automatically drive Pro/E model

Pro/E model updates geometry used in Mechanica FEA
Demonstration: Mathcad
Thomas Devaraj, Senior Application Engineer - PTC
2007 PTC 15
Call to Action
View the online demos & other information
http://www.ptc.com/products/tutorials/mathcad.htm

Discuss Mathcad with your Managers and Colleagues
Book another discussion with PTC to progress it further

Contact us if you have any other questions:
Contact your regional representative
or
Email: Stig Jensen on sjensen@ptc.com

Thank you for your time!