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Downtime cost analysis of offloading operations under irregular waves in Malaysian waters

  • Patel, M.S. (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS) ;
  • Liew, M.S. (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS) ;
  • Mustaffa, Zahiraniza (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS) ;
  • Abdurasheed, Abdurrasheed Said (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS) ;
  • Whyte, Andrew (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Curtin University)
  • Received : 2019.06.25
  • Accepted : 2019.11.06
  • Published : 2020.06.25
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Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the downtime cost of side-by-side offloading operations in Malaysian waters. With the help of a numerical time domain tool, the structure and cable response of moored FPSO vessel was simulated for heading and beam sea-states under irregular waves. The weather downtime was assessed by comparing the response under operational wave condition with the pre defined industrial safe offloading criteria. Additionally, two cases of cable failure were simulated for each sea-state. The novel study on downtime cost was presented for three different location of Malaysia subcontinent for which the location specific wave scatter diagram facilitated to estimate the probability of occurrence of operational wave condition. It was concluded that an unpredictable increment in wave height by 0.5 m can significantly impact the production cost.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to appreciate the coordination with Mr. Z. Razak "GTS/PD\&T, PETRONAS - Malaysia" for sharing his industrial experience. And would also like to acknowledge the contribution of Mr. Ahmed A. Khalifa "Offshore Engineering Centre (OEC), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)" for sharing his industrial expertise by providing real-time criteria for offloading operations and his technical advice on wave scatter compilation. The authors would like to thank the research support given by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, YUTP cost center 015LC0-095.

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