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Part 15:
Subsea structures and manifolds
1. Scope
3.1.6 manifold
: Systems of headers, branched piping and valves used to gather produced fluids
or to distribute injected fluids in subsea oil and gas production systems.
: valves,
: connectors for pipeline and tree interfaces,
: chokes for flow control,
: control system equipment (distribution for hydraulic and electrical functions),
: interface connections to control modules,
: header can include lines for water or chemical injection, gas lift and well control
4.1 General
: Manifold system design typically fulfils the functions of gathering and/or
distributing fluids, direct flow through headers, allow isolation of individual well slot
from header, incorporate flowline connections, and allow continuity of pigging
: The end user should define or approve the performance and configuration
requirements
- Performance: P&T ratings, WD, design life, geotechnical & geomechanical
data, metocean data
- Configuration: max. dimension, weight, interfaces, P&ID, materials, dropped-
objects protection, over-trawling requirement
: All equipment should be designed to comply with the end user’s product
requirement (P&T rating, installation, and operation environment)
: Material selection for individual components should meet the requirements of
ISO 13628-1 concerning
- production, injection fluids, and completion fluids for wetted area
- Exposure to chemical injection and service fluids
4.2 System requirements
: Installation
- transportation, lifting, installation, abandonment
: Drilling/Commissioning
- pull-in, connection and testing
- Well drilling, completion, workover, and XT installation
- Precommissing and commissioning
: Production/Injection
- Injection of chemicals, MeOH or MEG
- Thermal performance
- Pressurization and depressuization of piping system, well testing, barrier testing
- Planned and emergency shutdown of wells and manifold
- Pigging
- ROV/ROT inspection and intervention
- Seawater ingress during tie-in operations
- Corrosion and erosion protection
- Monitoring WT, flow rate, pressure drop, composition, flow regime
4.3. System interfaces
: should maintain integrity and functionality in the service conditions
: take into account the following
- Pressure, internal & external
- Temperature, expansion & contraction
- Zero leakage and seawater ingress
- Protection against dropped objects and fishing gear
- Structure settlement
- External: Marine growth, scaling, loads for installation, pull-in & connection,
ROV impact
- Internal: corrosion & erosion, hydrate formation
- Life span, serviceability, control connection, and chemical injection
: Interface data sheet describes design limitation, weight, and dimensions for well
system, installation contractor, and jumpers
4.4 Cluster manifold requirements
: consists of a framework that supports piping, pull-in and connection equipment
and Protective framing
: commingles flow from a number of subsea wells into one ore more headers
: includes control module, subsea distribution unit, and electrical distribution unit.
: provide Alignment capacity for interface with other subsystems
: provide for a guidance system to support operations
5.3.4 Erosion
: Critical flow velocity can be calculated as given in ANSI/API RP 14 E to
determine critical production rate and required erosion allowance