The drive to ensure riser integrity and to better understand its response, especially to high currents, changed perception of integrity monitoring within the industry – from R&D endeavors to systems that provide critical data used for ensuring structural integrity, enhancement of the maintenance and inspection programs and assist with operations. The value that monitoring systems bring to the drilling contractors and operators results in wide spread use of such systems. The integrity monitoring systems went through significant development in recent years. More and more operators and drilling contractors see these systems as becoming field proven and guaranteeing return of valuable data, which many times prove exceptionally useful in the short term, for day-to-day riser integrity monitoring, as well as in the longer term for understanding riser response.
Benefits
- Ensures the fatigue structural integrity of the riser
- Reduces risk to expensive subsea equipment
- Improves operational guidelines:
- Guide operational decisions in response to high current events
- Calibrate analytical VIV predictions and improve riser VIV design practice and operating windows
- Ensure appropriate maintenance and inspection strategies
