Inspection and maintenance of STUs

2013 ◽  
pp. 165-170
Keyword(s):  
Inspection And Maintenance

Unlocking Oil Resources without Artificial Lift Using Testing Barge in Tambora Gas Field

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
J., A. Anggoro
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Artificial Lift ◽  
Oil Resources ◽  
Cumulative Production ◽  
Inspection And Maintenance ◽  
Routine Inspection ◽  
Prime Condition ◽  
Safety Operation ◽  
Mahakam Delta

Tambora field is a mature gas field located in a swamp area of Mahakam delta without artificial lift. The main objective of this project is to unlock existing oil resources. Most oil wells could not flow because there is no artificial lift, moreover the network pressure is still at Medium Pressure (20 Barg). Given the significant stakes, the option to operate the testing barge continuously as lifting tool is reviewed. The idea is to set the separator pressure to 1-3 Barg, so that the wellhead flowing pressure could be reduced to more than 15 Barg which will create higher drawdown in front of the reservoir. The oil flows from the reservoir into the gauge tank, where it is then returned to the production line by transfer pumps. The trial was performed in well T-1 for a week in November 2017 and successfully produced continuous oil with a stable rate of 1000 bbls/d. What makes this project unique is the continuous operation for a long period of time. Therefore, it is important to ensure the capacity of the gauge tank and the transfer pump compatibility with the rate from the well, the system durability which required routine inspection and maintenance to ensure the testing barge unit is in prime condition and to maintain vigilance and responsiveness of personnel. This project started in 2018 for several wells and the cumulative production up to January 2020 has reached 158 k bbls and will be continued as there are still potential oil resources to be unlocked. Innovation does not need to be rocket science. Significant oil recovery can be achieved with a simple approach considering all safety operation, production and economic aspect.

Inspection and Maintenance Management for Concrete Bridges at JR East

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
M. Hirota ◽  
M. Tomori ◽  
D. Tsukishima
Keyword(s):  
Concrete Bridges ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Inspection And Maintenance

scholarly journals Maintenance Planning of Offshore Wind Turbine Using Condition Monitoring Information

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose´ G. Rangel-Rami´rez ◽  
John D. So̸rensen
Keyword(s):  
Condition Monitoring ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Offshore Structures ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Maintenance Planning ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbines ◽  
Inspection And Maintenance ◽  
Monitoring Information

Deterioration processes such as fatigue and corrosion are typically affecting offshore structures. To “control” this deterioration, inspection and maintenance activities are developed. Probabilistic methodologies represent an important tool to identify the suitable strategy to inspect and control the deterioration in structures such as offshore wind turbines (OWT). Besides these methods, the integration of condition monitoring information (CMI) can optimize the mitigation activities as an updating tool. In this paper, a framework for risk-based inspection and maintenance planning (RBI) is applied for OWT incorporating CMI, addressing this analysis to fatigue prone details in welded steel joints at jacket or tripod steel support structures for offshore wind turbines. The increase of turbulence in wind farms is taken into account by using a code-based turbulence model. Further, additional modes t integrate CMI in the RBI approach for optimal planning of inspection and maintenance. As part of the results, the life cycle reliabilities and inspection times are calculated, showing that earlier inspections are needed at in-wind farm sites. This is expected due to the wake turbulence increasing the wind load. With the integration of CMI by means Bayesian inference, a slightly change of first inspection times are coming up, influenced by the reduction of the uncertainty and harsher or milder external agents.

Optimal adaptive inspection and maintenance for redundant systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 1748006X2110201
Author(s):  
Chaochao Lin ◽  
Matteo Pozzi
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Systems ◽  
Discounted Cost ◽  
Markov Decision ◽  
Inspection And Maintenance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Partially Observable ◽  
Series Systems ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Redundant Systems

Optimal exploration of engineering systems can be guided by the principle of Value of Information (VoI), which accounts for the topological important of components, their reliability and the management costs. For series systems, in most cases higher inspection priority should be given to unreliable components. For redundant systems such as parallel systems, analysis of one-shot decision problems shows that higher inspection priority should be given to more reliable components. This paper investigates the optimal exploration of redundant systems in long-term decision making with sequential inspection and repairing. When the expected, cumulated, discounted cost is considered, it may become more efficient to give higher inspection priority to less reliable components, in order to preserve system redundancy. To investigate this problem, we develop a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework for sequential inspection and maintenance of redundant systems, where the VoI analysis is embedded in the optimal selection of exploratory actions. We investigate the use of alternative approximate POMDP solvers for parallel and more general systems, compare their computation complexities and performance, and show how the inspection priorities depend on the economic discount factor, the degradation rate, the inspection precision, and the repair cost.

scholarly journals Automated maintenance feasibility testing on the EU DEMO Automated Inspection and Maintenance Test Unit (AIM-TU)

2021 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 112517
Author(s):  
S. Jimenez ◽  
D. Bookless ◽  
R. Nath ◽  
W.J. Leong ◽  
J. Kotaniemi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Automated Inspection ◽  
Test Unit ◽  
Inspection And Maintenance ◽  
Feasibility Testing ◽  
The Eu
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