Full-Scale High-Load, Thermal, and Fatigue Testing of Additive Manufactured Powder Bed Fusion Component for Oil Field Applications

ABSTRACT: As the usage of additive manufacturing (AM) expands into more critical applications, the need to establish confidence in the expected performance and reliability of AM components also becomes more critical. Significant research and efforts have been made public related...

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Real Time Data Verification of Load and Pressure Testing using von Mises Yield Criterion for Thick Walled Tubular Products

ABSTRACT: The oil and gas industry requires standardized testing of tubular products. Testing to the edges of a specified test envelope or yield criterion is performed in order to qualify designs. The most commonly used yield criterion for ductile steel tubular products is the von...

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Long Tiebacks for Life Extension of Existing Offshore Facilities – A Novel Solution for Flowline Wet Insulation

ABSTRACT: Blockage of flowlines due to hydrate or paraffin plugging is an on-going issue for the offshore industry. The problem seems to be exacerbated with the higher pressures and colder ambient temperatures as developments progress into deeper and deeper waters. There are many...

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Measured Data Provides Insight for Floating Systems Life Extension

ABSTRACT: The primary goal of floating systems life extension efforts is to project how the system or components will behave in the future beyond the original design life. This predicted behavior can then be used to determine the practicality of the proposed life extension in...

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Challenges of Drilling Operations in Extreme Deepwater

ABSTRACT: This paper highlights the challenges to drilling risers and running equipment for offshore drilling operations from dynamically positioned mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) in extreme water depths. Whereas nearly all exploratory drilling has occurred in water depths...

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Developing a Digital Twin for Floating Production Systems Integrity Management

ABSTRACT: Floating production systems asset integrity management programs are dependent on a combination of inspection, analysis and measured data. These tasks are often labor intensive to perform. A digital twin model combines data and computer models, which can significantly...

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Design and Validation of the 16-Inch Schedule 80 Interference Connection through Numerical and Experimental Methods

ABSTRACT: A precision engineered controlled interference fit mechanical connector for joining steel pipe is evaluated in this paper. The primary advantage of such a connection is that the need for trained welders and radiographers is minimized, and the connection-joining process...

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Numerical and Experimental Assessment of Girth Welds Interacting with Wrinkle Anomalies

ABSTRACT: Two wrinkle-like features were discovered in two girth welds of an onshore, horizontal directionally drilled (HDD) 42-inch OD x 0.438-inch wall thickness, Grade X70 pipeline using a high resolution in-line inspection (ILI) tool. The HDD pipeline was buried at a depth of...

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Inflow Control Device Injection and Production Dynamic Integrity Testing – Best Practices

ABSTRACT: In recent years, the application envelope for inflow control devices (ICDs) has significantly shifted toward harsher environments, for example, to high temperature changes for SAGD, high production pressure differentials in wells with high reservoir permeability...

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