WO2001077483A1 - Tensioning and heave compensating arrangement at a riser - Google Patents
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- WO2001077483A1 WO2001077483A1 PCT/NO2000/000096 NO0000096W WO0177483A1 WO 2001077483 A1 WO2001077483 A1 WO 2001077483A1 NO 0000096 W NO0000096 W NO 0000096W WO 0177483 A1 WO0177483 A1 WO 0177483A1
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B19/00—Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole, e.g. in the derrick; Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables
- E21B19/002—Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole, e.g. in the derrick; Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables specially adapted for underwater drilling
- E21B19/004—Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole, e.g. in the derrick; Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables specially adapted for underwater drilling supporting a riser from a drilling or production platform
- E21B19/006—Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole, e.g. in the derrick; Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables specially adapted for underwater drilling supporting a riser from a drilling or production platform including heave compensators
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- the present invention regards a tensioning and heave compensating arrangement at a riser that extends between an item f subsea equipment and a surface vessel in which the riser forms part of a telescopic pipe arrangement.
- Risers of this type have their lower end attached to subsea equipment such as blowout preventer valves, wellheads or similar, and the top attached to a surface vessel, such as a drillship or a platform.
- the riser In order to absorb the vertical heaving motion of the vessel caused by the motion of the sea, it is previously known to provide the upper end section of the riser with a piece of piping that is arranged so as to slide telescopioally in the riser. I.e., the riser has a telescopic pipe section at the t p.
- the riser must be kept under continuous tension, and in the case of known risers this is achieved by means of a steel wire that is attached to the riser and kept taut by means of winches or hydraulic/pneumatic cylinders that have been assigned pressure sources and accumulators located on board the surface vessel.
- winches or hydraulic/pneumatic cylinders that have been assigned pressure sources and accumulators located on board the surface vessel.
- the direct use of hydraulic/pneumatic cylinders, i.e. without a steel wire, is also known.
- the winches must be sised to take up the weight of the riser and any fluid present in this. Moreover, the winches must be. controllable, so called heave co pensatable (vertical motion co pensatable) , so as to minimise the transfer of heaving movements from the surface vessel to the riser.
- the object of the invention has been to provide a tensioning and heave compensating arrangement at a riser, which arrangement does not require the use of winches in order to keep the riser tensioned or to achieve heave compensation.
- a telescopic section is present at the lower end of a riser that is designed and arranged in accordance with the invention.
- the lower part of the riser according to the invention forms part of a telescopic pipe arrangement in the area of the subsea equipment as an inner, telescopically movable pipe.
- a riser according to the invention is at the top secured to the surface vessel in a known manner, and follows the movements of the vessel caused by the motion of the sea, while the mass of the riser ensures that the riser is kept under tension.
- the telescopic section of the riser may be realised with or without pretensioning that contributes towards increasing the tension in the riser.
- Figure 1 schematically shows a side view of a riser extending between a blowout preventer valve on the seabed and a surface vessel;
- Figure 2 shows an enlarged side view, partly in section, of the lower part of the riser that forms part of a telescopic pipe arrangement placed below?
- Figure 3 corresponds to Figure 2, however here said s telescopic pipe arrangement is spring-pretensioned in the axial directionj
- Figure 4 shows a third embodiment of the lower telescopic pipe arrangement, which in this case is pretensioned through use of hydrostatic pressure.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a riser 10 extending between a surface vessel 12, such as a drillship, and an item of subsea equipment 14, such as a blowout preventer valve on the seabed 16.
- a lower telescopic riser section in the form of a telescopic 5 pipe arrangement is generally denoted by reference number 18.
- the surface of the sea is indicated by 20.
- Figure 2 shows a first embodiment of the invention, in which an internal annular packing 24 that has been arranged so as o to provide a sliding seal between the inside of the outer telescopic pipe 22 and the outside of the riser 10, is disposed at the top of the outer telescopic pipe 22, the outer telescopic pipe 22 in the telescopic pipe arrangement 10, 22 being sufficiently dimensioned for extension in the s vertical direction to accommodate the maximum vertical movements anticipated from such a surface vessel.
- Figure 3 shows a second embodiment of the invention, in which the telescopic pipe arrangement 18 at the lower end of the riser 10 is spring-pretensioned.
- Reference number 26 lo indicates a helical line-shaped compression spring, the upper end of which abuts the lower surface of an upper, inwardly directed ring flange 22' of the outer telescopic pipe 22, and the lower end of which abuts the upper surface of a shoulder 30 on the lower end of the riser 10.
- An annular packing 28 indicates a helical line-shaped compression spring, the upper end of which abuts the lower surface of an upper, inwardly directed ring flange 22' of the outer telescopic pipe 22, and the lower end of which abuts the upper surface of a shoulder 30 on the lower end of the riser 10.
- both the inner and the outer diameters of an upper axial pipe section 22a are larger than those of a lower axial pipe section 22b.
- the pipe section 22a forms a cylinder for a piston 32 with a peripheral packing 34 that provides a sliding seal against
- a circumferential packing 36 that provides a sliding seal against the lower end portion of the riser 10 is disposed internally at the transition between the two axial pipe sections 22a and 22b.
- a cylindrical chamber 38 is formed S between the lower surface of the piston 32 and the upper surface of the packing 36 and of an adjacent, inwardly oriented annular part 40 at the above mentioned transition.
- the upper surface of the piston 32 is exposed to the pressure in the surrounding water, while the underside of the piston ⁇ so 32 is exposed to the pressure in the cylindrical chamber 38.
- a radially oriented vacuum pipe 42 in communication with the lower end of the cylindrical chamber 38 is connected to a set of pumps (not shown) arranged so as to be able to evacuate the cylindrical chamber 38.
- the pressure of the water 25 at the top of the piston 32 results in a downward acting force being applied to this, and by so doing contributes towards tensioning the riser 10.
- the telescopic pipe arrangement 18 may also be pretensioned by other means than those shown and described, for example by means of hydraulic pressure accumulators and subsea winches, it is also easy to appreciate that it will be possible to implement this pretensioning by using various combinations of pretensioning means.
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Priority Applications (7)
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CA002400736A CA2400736A1 (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2000-03-20 | Tensioning and heave compensating arrangement at a riser |
BR0017176-0A BR0017176A (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2000-03-20 | Tension and elevation compensation arrangement on a lift |
PCT/NO2000/000096 WO2001077483A1 (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2000-03-20 | Tensioning and heave compensating arrangement at a riser |
EP00911499A EP1266118B1 (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2000-03-20 | Tensioning and heave compensating arrangement at a riser |
AT00911499T ATE306012T1 (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2000-03-20 | TENSIONING DEVICE AND FERTILIZATION COMPENSATORS ON A RISER PIPE |
AU2000233365A AU2000233365A1 (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2000-03-20 | Tensioning and heave compensating arrangement at a riser |
DE60023039T DE60023039D1 (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2000-03-20 | CLAMPING DEVICE AND DENSITY COMPENSATOR TO A STEY TUBE |
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PCT/NO2000/000096 WO2001077483A1 (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2000-03-20 | Tensioning and heave compensating arrangement at a riser |
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AT (1) | ATE306012T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU2000233365A1 (en) |
BR (1) | BR0017176A (en) |
CA (1) | CA2400736A1 (en) |
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WO2004057147A2 (en) * | 2002-11-20 | 2004-07-08 | National Oilwell Norway As | Tensioning system for production tubing in a riser at a floating installation for hydrocarbon production. |
WO2009154474A1 (en) * | 2008-06-20 | 2009-12-23 | Norocean As | Slip connection with adjustable pre-tensioning |
WO2013116090A1 (en) * | 2012-01-31 | 2013-08-08 | Schlumberger Canada Limited | Passive offshore tension compensator assembly |
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US3211224A (en) * | 1963-10-09 | 1965-10-12 | Shell Oil Co | Underwater well drilling apparatus |
US3889747A (en) * | 1973-07-23 | 1975-06-17 | Regan Offshore Int | Telescopic riser tensioning apparatus |
NO153700B (en) * | 1983-12-22 | 1986-01-27 | Tentech Int As | MARINT RISING SYSTEM. |
EP0478094A2 (en) * | 1986-07-31 | 1992-04-01 | Halliburton Company | Method and system for attaching and removing equipment from a wellhead |
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- 2000-03-20 BR BR0017176-0A patent/BR0017176A/en active Search and Examination
- 2000-03-20 CA CA002400736A patent/CA2400736A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 2000-03-20 WO PCT/NO2000/000096 patent/WO2001077483A1/en active IP Right Grant
- 2000-03-20 EP EP00911499A patent/EP1266118B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
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US3211224A (en) * | 1963-10-09 | 1965-10-12 | Shell Oil Co | Underwater well drilling apparatus |
US3889747A (en) * | 1973-07-23 | 1975-06-17 | Regan Offshore Int | Telescopic riser tensioning apparatus |
NO153700B (en) * | 1983-12-22 | 1986-01-27 | Tentech Int As | MARINT RISING SYSTEM. |
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WO2004057147A3 (en) * | 2002-11-20 | 2004-09-30 | Nat Oilwell Norway As | Tensioning system for production tubing in a riser at a floating installation for hydrocarbon production. |
US7188677B2 (en) | 2002-11-20 | 2007-03-13 | National Oilwell Norway As | Tensioning system for production tubing in a riser at a floating installation for hydrocarbon production |
WO2004057147A2 (en) * | 2002-11-20 | 2004-07-08 | National Oilwell Norway As | Tensioning system for production tubing in a riser at a floating installation for hydrocarbon production. |
WO2009154474A1 (en) * | 2008-06-20 | 2009-12-23 | Norocean As | Slip connection with adjustable pre-tensioning |
AU2009260957B2 (en) * | 2008-06-20 | 2012-04-05 | Norocean As | Slip connection with adjustable pre-tensioning |
US8684090B2 (en) | 2008-06-20 | 2014-04-01 | Norocean As | Slip connection with adjustable pre-tensioning |
GB2518033B (en) * | 2012-01-31 | 2016-09-07 | Schlumberger Holdings | Passive offshore tension compensator assembly |
WO2013116090A1 (en) * | 2012-01-31 | 2013-08-08 | Schlumberger Canada Limited | Passive offshore tension compensator assembly |
GB2518033A (en) * | 2012-01-31 | 2015-03-11 | Schlumberger Holdings | Passive offshore tension compensator assembly |
US9528328B2 (en) | 2012-01-31 | 2016-12-27 | Schlumberger Technology Corporation | Passive offshore tension compensator assembly |
WO2014018519A1 (en) * | 2012-07-26 | 2014-01-30 | Cameron International Corporation | System for conveying fluid from an offshore well |
US9133670B2 (en) | 2012-07-26 | 2015-09-15 | Cameron International Corporation | System for conveying fluid from an offshore well |
US9500046B2 (en) | 2012-07-26 | 2016-11-22 | Cameron International Corporation | System for conveying fluid from an offshore well |
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AU2000233365A1 (en) | 2001-10-23 |
DE60023039D1 (en) | 2006-02-16 |
ATE306012T1 (en) | 2005-10-15 |
EP1266118B1 (en) | 2005-10-05 |
CA2400736A1 (en) | 2001-10-18 |
BR0017176A (en) | 2002-12-10 |
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