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Offshore Industry Applications

Offshore Industry Applications. Outline. Introduction Offshore Industry needs for metocean data GODAE contribution Challenges. Introduction. The offshore industry has been a major driver of the development of operational oceanography

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Offshore Industry Applications

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  1. Offshore Industry Applications GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  2. Outline • Introduction • Offshore Industry needs for metocean data • GODAE contribution • Challenges GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  3. Introduction • The offshore industry has been a major driver of the development of operational oceanography • Start with a quick tour of offshore industry activities GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  4. Early offshore industry activity Early 20th century, trestles and piers jutted out from California’s Summerland Beach (Photo Courtesy Huntington Library) GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  5. Early offshore industry activity GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela (Photo Courtesy of Shell International Ltd.)

  6. Early offshore industry activity GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France Texaco’s submersible slotted drilling barge Giliass (Photo Courtesy of Chevron)

  7. Early disasters Sea Gem, 1965 GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  8. More recent disasters Rita Dennis

  9. Katrina Recent disasters

  10. Seismic exploration Planning Optimisation Exploration drilling Design Anchoring/positioning Operations Transport of structures Routing Offshore industry – metocean information needs

  11. Production Design Installation Operation Abandonment Pipelines Design Installation Inspection/Maintenance Shore installations Design Fabrication Operation Offshore industry – metocean information needs

  12. Seismic exploration GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  13. Exploration drilling GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  14. Pipelay GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  15. Heavy lifts GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  16. Floatovers GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  17. Dry Tow of Truss Spar GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  18. Spar Upending

  19. Spar over Houston

  20. Thunderhorse GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  21. Thunderhorse transport GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  22. Atlantis GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  23. Arctic drilling operations

  24. Arctic production facilities GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  25. Seabed installations

  26. Pre-planning and design • Statistics of weather, seastate and water column structure (primarily currents + sometimes temperature) • For period of planned operation (seismic exploration/exploration drilling/tow/facility installation) • Design extremes for lifetime of structures and subsea components (production facilities, coastal terminals, LNG facilities etc) GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  27. During operations • Real-time observations of wind, waves and sometimes currents to support operational safety (helicopter, diving, ROV, AUV, supply vessels, shuttle tankers, crane barges etc) • Forecasts for planning during operations • Forecasts for shutdowns and evacuations GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  28. Offshore industry metocean data needs • In operational oceanographic terms: • Hindcasts • Nowcasts • Forecasts • For winds, seastate and water column structure GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  29. Meteorology • Hindcasts • Mature proven and regularly updated hindcasts (50 years plus) for most oil/gas basins • Long time histories of observations for many basins as basis for validation • Nowcasts • Mature capability supplemented by local real-time observations • Forecasts • Mature capability for short-term forecasts GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  30. Benefits/potential benefits of GODAE • Hindcasts • Use of scatterometer data has been critical to improving hindcast quality • Potential to improve knowledge of decadal scale natural and anthropogenic variability (especially hurricanes/cyclones and extra tropical storms) • Nowcasts • Potential for better quality analyses • Forecasts • Potential to extend horizon/skill of short-term forecasts with coupled ocean/atmosphere models Potential for improved seasonal forecasts GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  31. Seastate • Hindcasts • Mature proven and regularly updated hindcasts (50 years plus) for most oil/gas basins • Long time histories of observations for many basins as basis for validation of hindcasts • Nowcasts • Mature capability supplemented by local real-time observations • Forecasts • Mature capability for short-term forecasts GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  32. Benefits/potential benefits of GODAE • Hindcasts • Altimeter data has made an important contribution to improving hindcast products • Potential for incorporation of wave/current interaction for regions where this has a significant impact on wave climate • Potential to improve knowledge of decadal scale natural and anthropogenic variability (especially hurricane/cyclone and extra tropical storm induced waves) • Nowcasts • Potential for better quality analyses • Forecasts • Potential to extend horizon/skill of short-term forecasts • Potential for improved forecasts incorporating wave/current interaction GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  33. Currents and water column structure • Hindcasts • Beginning to be used but not mature • Statistics still based mostly on relatively short (1 year) measured time histories • Nowcasts • Some use of EO based nowcasts • Mainly based on local observations • Forecasts • Beginning to be considered but skill not yet sufficient for operational use GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  34. Benefits of GODAE • Hindcasts • Emerging capability for production of hindcasts of sufficient quality for use in design and pre-planning • Nowcasts • Ability to provide good quality nowcasts of important features based on altimetry, SST, Ocean Colour (eddies, fronts etc) • Forecasts • Potential to provide forecasts to support operational planning GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  35. Challenges GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  36. Challenges GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  37. Challenges • Realising coupled ocean/atmosphere models that make possible improved short-term and seasonal forecasts of weather and seastate • Realising routine incorporation of modelled surface currents into wave hindcasts and forecasts • Realising contribution of better understanding of the oceans to improved projections of decadal natural and anthropogenic climate variability GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

  38. Thanks for listening Any questions? GODAE Final Symposium, 12 – 15 November 2008, Nice, France

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