Integrity management
Anchor-Dented Pipeline: FFS and Life Extension
Finite element fitness-for-service assessment and life-extension study of a subsea pipeline dented by an anchor.
- Client
- Pharonic Petroleum Company
- Our role
- FFS, integrity management and life extension
- Location
- Egypt
- Category
- Integrity management
A subsea pipeline was dented by a ship’s anchor. We assessed its fitness for service with finite element analysis, modelling the dent and the pipeline’s response to operating loads.
We then carried out an integrity management and life-extension study, so the operator could keep the pipeline in service safely.
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