TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk informed integrity management of sub-surface well production tubings subject to combined scale and corrosion degradations
AU - Akinsanya, Akinyemi Olugbenga
AU - Qin, Jianjun
AU - Guan, Yue
AU - Sørensen, John Dalsgaard
AU - Faber, Michael Havbro
N1 - Funding Information:
Special thanks to Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Center (DHRTC) for supporting and funding this research work, through its Joint Development and Research Projects.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - The progressive loss of integrity of production tubing results from time- and space- variant degradation processes, mainly scale and corrosion. Due to the potential disastrous consequences of failure, it is necessary and required to manage the integrity of production tubing systems by means of inspections, monitoring and maintenance. However, there are substantial uncertainties associated with the degradation processes and it is prudent to account for these in the optimal planning of integrity management. To this end risk informed approaches taking basis in the Bayesian pre-posterior decision analysis and methods of structural reliability, introduced already 3–4 decades ago for integrity management of offshore structures, comprise a strong basis. With such an approach an optimal trade-off between the cost of inspections/maintenance and the benefits due to increased production and reduced risk to personnel and environment can be determined. This paper presents such a framework and demonstrates its implementation on a selected example. The novelty of the framework is the risk informed Bayesian decision framework and the joint consideration of the two common failure modes of the tubing: tubing clogging and leaking due to scale and pitting corrosion respectively.
AB - The progressive loss of integrity of production tubing results from time- and space- variant degradation processes, mainly scale and corrosion. Due to the potential disastrous consequences of failure, it is necessary and required to manage the integrity of production tubing systems by means of inspections, monitoring and maintenance. However, there are substantial uncertainties associated with the degradation processes and it is prudent to account for these in the optimal planning of integrity management. To this end risk informed approaches taking basis in the Bayesian pre-posterior decision analysis and methods of structural reliability, introduced already 3–4 decades ago for integrity management of offshore structures, comprise a strong basis. With such an approach an optimal trade-off between the cost of inspections/maintenance and the benefits due to increased production and reduced risk to personnel and environment can be determined. This paper presents such a framework and demonstrates its implementation on a selected example. The novelty of the framework is the risk informed Bayesian decision framework and the joint consideration of the two common failure modes of the tubing: tubing clogging and leaking due to scale and pitting corrosion respectively.
KW - Bayesian pre-posterior decision analysis
KW - Inspection and maintenance plans
KW - Scale and corrosion degradations
KW - Structural reliability analysis
KW - Sub-surface well
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2021.104424
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2021.104424
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85107669514
SN - 0308-0161
VL - 192
JO - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
JF - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
M1 - 104424
ER -