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Offshore Pipeline Design and Installation
Short course
In Bedfordshire ()
Description
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Type
Short course
What you will learn On successful completion of this short course you will:Understand the basic procedures in offshore pipeline design and installationBe able to select appropriate components for an installationHave a knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of different pipelaying techniquesUnderstand the problems caused by fluids carried within pipelines.
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Subjects
- Installation
- Design
Course programme
- Overview of components – pipelines, risers, valves, pig launchers/receivers and flow metering equipment
- Introduction to design procedures – physical properties, stress analysis, buckling and collapse, strain-based design
- Fluid flow through pipes – basic hydrodynamics, multiphase flow, hydrate formation/prevention, wax formation/prevention
- Pipelines steels – effect of processing: normalised quenched and tempered, thermo-mechanically treated and accelerated cooled steels. Seamless, HFERW and UOE manufacturing processes, corrosion resistant steels
- Design for installation – S-lay, J-lay, deepwater, calculation of tensions, reeling
- Thermal coatings – requirements, selection and application of coating, field joint coating systems
- Pipelay methods – laybarge configurations, anchor handling/DP, reel barge, pipeline bundles, ‘pipe in pipe’, factors affecting productivity.
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Offshore Pipeline Design and Installation