Offshore Pipelines
Offshore Pipelines
Offshore Pipelines
More than a third of the worldwide growth in drilling is expected to come from offshore, making the development of offshore pipelines an extremely hot topic in the energy industry. Offshore Pipelines is the most up-to-date reference for engineers and developers challenged with bringing oil and gas onshore.
Written primarily for engineers and management personnel working on offshore and deepwater oil and gas pipelines, this book brings together the authors years of experience on a variety of pipeline projects. It offers cost-effective approaches for developing pipeline systems. By presenting principles, criteria, and data necessary to perform engineering analyses, the authors set forth guidelines that can be employed to optimize pipeline development projects.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 General design information 13
3 Diameter and wall thickness 21
4 Hydrodynamic stability of pipelines 27
5 Pipeline span 51
6 Operating stresses 61
7 Pipeline riser design 75
8 Pipeline external corrosion protection 99
9 Pipeline insulation 107
10 Introduction to flexible pipelines 119
11 Pipeline installation methods 129
12 Installation bending stress control 141
13 Pipeline on-bottom stability control 149
14 Pipeline testing and pre-commissioning 161
15 Flow assurance 169
16 Pigging operations 215
App. A Gas-liquid multiphase flow in pipeline 235
App. B Steady and transient solutions for pipeline temperature 263
App. C Strength de-rating of old pipelines 271