Drilling Riser Fatigue Monitored in Real Time Aboard Drillship

ABSTRACT:

A riser-fatigue monitoring system (RFMS) has been developed to provide field measurements of drilling riser stress and fatigue in near-real-time. During the two deployments on the Chikyu drilling riser, the system successfully recorded riser dynamics in the field, capturing a number of riser excitation events.

McNeill, S., Kluk, D,. Agarwal, P., Bhalla, K., Saruhashi, T., Sawada, I., Kyo, M., Miyazaki, E., and Yamazaki, Y., “Drilling Riser Fatigue Monitored in Real Time Aboard Drillship,” World Oil, March, 2013, 53-59.