Research project seeks to deliver ultra-deepwater riser concepts

摘要

A recent research project has been working to select and bring to maturity at least one safe riser system concept that could meet the performance demand of high-motion vessels in ultra-deepwater areas (10,000-ft depths). Stress Engineering Services, Inc., has been undertaking this work, under the auspices of the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, supported by the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory. Additional participants in the project included BP, Shell, Petro-bras, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Chevron. The project was tasked with performing dynamic analyses and other second-level evaluation of riser concepts that had passed an initial concept evaluation and had included key design parameters.