Subsea Incident Engineering

Rapid response engineering assessments of riser and subsea equipment to identify and mitigate failure issues while minimising downtime and maintaining operational safety.

Our multi-disciplinary engineering and field service personnel and in-depth equipment knowledge enable us to provide integrity engineering services for all types of riser and subsea systems used in production, export, drilling, completion, and intervention operations.

We perform forensic engineering in the event of failure incidents to identify root causes, recommend design modifications and deliver remedial solutions. Common field problems or anomalies can include degradation of the riser pipe, coatings or seals, component failures, and leaks due to excessive loading or corrosion. We offer turnkey design and delivery of integrity mitigation solutions using an agile and flexible supply chain cultivated over many years of integrity remediation projects.

We have an extensive track record in integrity engineering that allows us to perform assessments and deliver on remedial solutions for complex offshore systems under extreme deadlines.

Project Experience

Risers

• GoM oil spill emergency response: deepwater freestanding containment riser design, delivery and installation management.
• GoM spar riser air can stem fatigue crack: engineering assessment, retrofit structural clamp design and delivery to mitigate issue.
• West Africa water injection flexible riser failure: root cause engineering assessment, remaining life analysis, remediation assessment.
• FPSO flexible riser i-tube fatigue: fitness for service assessment, material testing, inspection tool validation, structural clamp remedial solution design and delivery
• GoM evaluation of loss of VIV fairings or excessive fouling of VIV strakes on riser fatigue
• GoM TTR reassessment of riser global strength and fatigue due to loss of centralisation
• North Sea drilling riser failure assessment
• North Sea drilling riser choke and kill line stab pocket damage assessment

Subsea Components & Other Structures

• GoM subsea jumper oil leak: root cause engineering analysis, flowline buckling and walking analysis, subsea jumpers redesign.
• NWS Australia downhole casing cross-over failure: loading assessment
• GoM spar, TLP & semi post-hurricane strength re-assessments
• GoM wellhead and conductor system snag loading strength assessment
• NWS Australia subsea conductor system connector fatigue crack evaluation
• GoM cathodic protection skid design
• GoM wellhead mechanical connector unplanned disconnection assessment
• North Sea dropped casing: damage evaluation of subsea flowlines