Grant: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
Memorial University of Newfoundland
$137,015.00
Effects of ice gouging on buried pipelines
EF 2011-12
Résumé
Arctic and northern cold regions are one of the few remaining frontiers that may hold significant hydrocarbon reserves to meet global demand for energy and petrochemical industries. Pipelines remain a cost effective and reliable transport mode of oil and gas products, from field development areas to market, over extended distances. For offshore pipelines in ice environments, key engineering challenges relate to uncertainty on the interaction of an ice feature with the seabed, known as an ice gouge event, and the corresponding load effects on buried pipeline systems. Technical and logistical challenges exist to progress developments safely with no sustained environmental impact while addressing the need to engineer practical solutions with predictable outcomes bounded by technological, economic and logistical constraints. This collaborative research program brings together academia and industry in an effort to reduce this technical uncertainty and risk. This research program will address questions on how properties of the ice keel and seabed soil influence ice gouge events and affect the mechanical response of buried infrastructure such as pipelines. The use of laboratory testing, full-scale physical modelling and development of advanced computational procedures will provide the technology framework to address these questions. The primary objective is to advance calibrated, leading edge simulation tools that can assess the mechanical integrity of buried pipelines in ice gouge environments over a range of practical engineering design parameters. The integration of leading and proven technologies will address current industry challenges and unlock constraints that hinder development of new frontier areas with practical, cost-effective and safe engineering solutions. The research outcomes will provide a basis to promote safe, reliable and cost effective pipeline transportation systems with potential economic benefits to Canada by providing a technical basis to access strategic energy supplies.
Programme
Collaborative Research and Development Grants
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
411280-2010
Name nom
Kenny, Shawn
Department département
Engineering and Applied Science, Faculty of
Organization id
89
Institution établissement
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Province en
Newfoundland and Labrador
Province fr
Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2011
Competition year année de concours
2010
Award amount
137015
Program id
CRDPJ
Program nane en
Collaborative Research and Development Grants
Program name fr
Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
96
Committee name en
RPP Internal Decision Cttee
Committee name fr
Cté de décision interne - PPR
Area of application code
300
Area of application group en
Energy resources
Area of application group fr
Ressources d'énergie
Area of application en
Energy resources (including production, exploration, processing, distribution and use)
Area of application fr
Ressources d'énergie (production, exploration, traitement, distribution et utilisation de l'énergie)
Research subject code
1002
Research subject group en
Civil engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie civil
Research subject en
Geotechnical engineering (including engineering geology)
Research subject fr
Géotechnique (y compris génie géologique)
Partie
1
Nb partie
3
Application title
Effects of ice gouging on buried pipelines
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Arctic and northern cold regions are one of the few remaining frontiers that may hold significant hydrocarbon reserves to meet global demand for energy and petrochemical industries. Pipelines remain a cost effective and reliable transport mode of oil and gas products, from field development areas to market, over extended distances. For offshore pipelines in ice environments, key engineering challenges relate to uncertainty on the interaction of an ice feature with the seabed, known as an ice gouge event, and the corresponding load effects on buried pipeline systems. Technical and logistical challenges exist to progress developments safely with no sustained environmental impact while addressing the need to engineer practical solutions with predictable outcomes bounded by technological, economic and logistical constraints. This collaborative research program brings together academia and industry in an effort to reduce this technical uncertainty and risk. This research program will address questions on how properties of the ice keel and seabed soil influence ice gouge events and affect the mechanical response of buried infrastructure such as pipelines. The use of laboratory testing, full-scale physical modelling and development of advanced computational procedures will provide the technology framework to address these questions. The primary objective is to advance calibrated, leading edge simulation tools that can assess the mechanical integrity of buried pipelines in ice gouge environments over a range of practical engineering design parameters. The integration of leading and proven technologies will address current industry challenges and unlock constraints that hinder development of new frontier areas with practical, cost-effective and safe engineering solutions. The research outcomes will provide a basis to promote safe, reliable and cost effective pipeline transportation systems with potential economic benefits to Canada by providing a technical basis to access strategic energy supplies.
