Full-Scale Verification of the Hydrodynamic Motions of a Floating Facility
- Authors
- M. Zed (Woodside Energy Limited) | I. A. Milne (The University of Western Australia)
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4043/28479-MS
- Document ID
- OTC-28479-MS
- Publisher
- Offshore Technology Conference
- Source
- Offshore Technology Conference Asia, 20-23 March, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Publication Date
- 2018
- Document Type
- Conference Paper
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 978-1-61399-552-5
- Copyright
- 2018. Offshore Technology Conference
- Disciplines
- 1.1 Well Planning, 1.1 Well Planning, 1.6 Drilling Operations
- Keywords
- wave structure interaction, vessel response, metocean, hydrodyanmics, wave spectra
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Quantifying the hydrodynamic motions of a floating facility is critical for ensuring its safe and efficient operation. The ability to obtain estimates of the motion response charactersitics using a numerical approach to estimate the seastate is particulary attractive for sites in which limited observational wave data are available. Validation of such a numerial approach using full-scale data is however, desirable in order to establish its accuracy and limitations. To this end, this paper presents a case study where numerical estimates of the dynamic motions of a drillship were validated using high quality dynamic motion records acquired during the drilling campaign. The model comprises a hindcast of the directional wave spectra and numerically derived hydrodynamic response characteristics of the ship. The performance of the model is evaluated using a range of selected seastates which were observed during the drilling campaign. It is demonstrated that reliable estimates of the motions of most interest for a drilling operation can generally be obtained, thus providing support to the use of the provided numerical approach for conducting operability assessments for floating facility planning purposes.
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