Improve Reliability of Oil & Gas Offshore Equipment using Realistic Simulation

Thursday, November 12 – 9:00 AM EST

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Brian Duffy, Engineering Manager, Pipeline Engineering Department, Technip USA

Ian Probyn, Senior Engineer (Analysis), DUCO Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Production of hydrocarbons from deepwater reservoirs requires the fabrication and installation of massive and expensive infrastructure: the cost to drill a deepwater well can easily exceed $70-100 million, and the various components needed to support long-term production of deepwater hydrocarbons can be a $1-3 billion (or higher) investment. As the global energy industry targets hydrocarbon reservoirs in ever-deeper water, the use of remote subsea wells to access the reserves and deepwater flowlines to transport the produced hydrocarbons back to floating production platforms is on the increase.

Given the huge capital expenditure and the volatility of hydrocarbon pricing, there is tremendous pressure in the energy industry to deploy highly reliable and cost-effective equipment for deepwater projects. Realistic simulation using Abaqus Unified FEA from SIMULIA can help engineers and designers ensure that deepwater equipment can withstand severe environmental and operating conditions and that installation procedures can get deepwater hardware on location safely.

Join us for this free, one-hour webinar, and you will:

• Hear from our guest speakers about the critical role of nonlinear FEA in the design of highly reliable and cost-effective deepwater equipment and installation procedures.
• Learn how Technip engineers use Abaqus FEA to ensure that the deepwater pipelines and subsea equipment are designed and installed to meet demanding environmental and operating conditions.
• Find out how to use advanced simulation for pipeline thermal expansion and buckling.
• Discover how to simulate the installation of pipeline end terminations (PLETs) in deepwater.
• Learn about the installation and thermal behavior of umbilicals.
• Find out how thermal management of deepwater flowlines can prevent hydrate formation during shutdowns.

Who Should Attend:

All designers, engineers, engineering managers, and directors who would like to learn about SIMULIA’s realistic simulation capabilities for offshore and deepwater applications.

About the Presenters:

Dr. Brian Duffy, Engineering Manager, Pipeline Engineering Department, Technip USA

Dr. Brian Duffy currently holds the position of Engineering Manager in the Pipeline Engineering Department at Technip USA. Since joining Technip in 2007, Dr. Duffy has provided advanced simulation support for multiple deepwater projects and developed and taught advanced simulation training seminars for Technip using Abaqus. Dr. Duffy earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 1994 and after graduation worked with HKS in the Customer Support and Training group for about 4 years. In 1998 he joined ExxonMobil's Upstream Research Company where he worked for almost 10 years. While at ExxonMobil he used computational simulations to study problems as varied as geologic basin modeling, reservoir compaction, heavy oil geomechanics, sand production predictions, and water injection geomechanics.

Ian Probyn, Senior Engineer (Analysis), DUCO Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Ian Probyn is a Senior Engineer from the Research and Development department of DUCO Ltd which is part of Technip Group and responsible for design and manufacture of subsea umbilical systems. Umbilicals are used as the control and supply link for subsea Oil and Gas extraction equipment. Since joining DUCO in 2004 he has been responsible for developing and validating finite element analysis techniques, based on Abaqus, to assess the behaviour of the complex helical construction of the umbilical in structural and thermal scenarios. He graduated from Loughborough University in 1997 with a Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering and worked as a crash simulation engineer for Rover, BMW and Land Rover where he developed vehicle body structures for crashworthiness using FEA software.

Mahesh Kailasam – Industry Lead, Energy, SIMULIA

Mahesh has worked with SIMULIA since 1998 in various capacities within Customer Services, Development, Product Management, and Strategy. Mahesh is currently responsible for developing and directing SIMULIA strategy for the Energy Industry, including the oil & gas industry. In this role he has been closely collaborating with our oil & gas customers to understand their workflows and requirements while promoting our current capabilities and best practices. Information gathered from such collaboration is being used to provide simulation technology, usability, and productivity improvements for the oil & gas industry. He has a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.