Offshore Design Problems now simplified with Altair Technology

The offshore industry is a high tech industry that demands precise engineering solutions. In order to remain competitive, industry leaders continually look for better solutions to engineering problems. Altair is on the forefront of this industry with highly validated and technology leading CAE and CFD solutions to help conceive and validate design challenges that once were limiting elements. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is one of such solutions and is gaining increased importance in this industry by reducing downtime for offshore oil and gas production platforms.

Significant Oil and Gas Challenges:

• Risk Management


• Exploration


• Drilling


• Completions


• Production


• Safety and Reliability


• Exploration & Development Schedule/Cost


• Environmental Responsibility


• Knowledge Capture and Transfer

Highly Validated CAE and CFD Altair Solutions for the Most Complex Offshore Design Problems:

• Platform VIM


• FPSO/Semi-Sub Spar VIM and Interactions


• Riser VIV, Spooler VIV, Pipeline VIV


• Flow Assurance


• Drill String Integrity


• Reservoir Heat Transfer


• LNG Heat Exchanger


• LNG Piping

Case Studies for Oil & Gas Industry

Pipe Reeling Reliability
Use of HyperStudy to predict buckling in rigid reeled pipeline operation is described in Paper IPC04-0733, International Pipeline Conference, 2004. This work was a joint effort of Technip Offshore UK Ltd and Altair Engineering.

Many different parameter variations, such as thickness of pipe sections, material properties, etc. can be considered in making reliable predictions of buckling in the pipe reeling operation. The ability to reliably predict buckling and other failures prior to the actual pipe reeling operation helps avoid costly down times and excessive repair costs.

Expandable Sand Screen Design

BP America, Inc., Schlumberger and Altair Engineering jointly developed a bistable expansion cell design of expandable sand screens (“Design Optimization Applied to Development of an Oilfield Bistable Expandable Sand Screen”, Altair Technology Conference 2004).

CAE based optimization methods helped in creating a large scale bi-stable geometry that would deploy symmetrically when implemented with standard oilfield steels. Response surface based optimization in HyperStudy was used to automatically define cell design
parameters to achieve bistable deployment.

To learn how Altair can solve your most Complex Offshore Design Problems contact us at marketing@india.altair.com