The expansion of a deepwater brownfield may become necessary to increase the production hydrocarbons. Such often requires installation additional risers existing floating platform. However, seabed footprint facilities be congested with subsea pipelines and structures. Tying back such as steel catenary riser (SCR) platform becomes challenging. Floating (FCR) is novel solution bends or ‘waves’ cl...

Several factors can affect the response of steel catenary risers (SCR) around its touch down zone (TDZ). These include stiffness soil, soil suction force on riser TDZ, degradation with cyclic TDZ loading, etc. Riser strength and fatigue computation are usually performed considering flat seabed use rigid or linear (spring) interaction model. However, bathymetric information obtained for SCR lay ...

A systematic methodology is presented to obtain the vortex induced vibrational modes of a riser, based on data from CFD coupled to a long beam under tension and placed in sheared cross-flow; two profiles were tested: (a) linear, and (b) exponential. The modes we estimate are in fact nonlinear equilibria between the flow-induced excitation forces and the structural dynamics and are characterized...