Extending riser life

摘要

A new process reduces costs and lost time associated with MODU drilling riser inspections through the use of life-cycle condition-based monitoring. Stretching hundreds or thousands of feet into the dark waters below a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) is the conduit through which all operations and fluids flow. The primary purpose of the vessel's offshore riser system is to enable the safe transportation of fluids and gases from beneath the seafloor and the surface, and vice versa. From the running, operation and retrieval of drill-pipe to well control operations and more, any and all processes that require a surface connection to the well are made possible through riser systems.