SIBIS: A Numerical Environment for Simulating Offshore Operations in Discontinuous Ice

Exploration and production of oil and gas resources in harsh offshore environments may require operating in contact with ice. Therefore, there is a need to understand the operational implications of ice actions on stationkeeping of floating platforms, offloading of hydrocarbons, evacuation and rescue of personnel and oil spill response operations. This knowledge is especially important in the early phase of field developments projects, because ice actions can strongly affect the costs of the hull structure of a floating platform, as well as the design of its mooring and propulsion systems. Furthermore, estimating the operational expenditures of potential support operations requires the knowledge of ice loads on vessels in transit during physical ice management and other special operations such as iceberg towing through broken ice. This paper presents a novel numerical environment for simulating such complex and critical offshore operations with high fidelity and performance: SIBIS, which stands for “Simulation of Interaction between Broken Ice and Structures”. The numerical model estimates both local and global ice actions on vessels and offshore structures, and the corresponding structural response in time domain. This paper describes the overall structure and capabilities of the SIBIS package, and presents some examples of its successful usage in industrial projects.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of the International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions (POAC).
• Authors:
  • Metrikin, Ivan
  • Gürtner, Arne
  • Bonnemaire, Basile
  • Tan, Xiang
  • Fredriksen, Arnt
  • Sapelnikov, Dmitry
• Conference:
  • 23rd International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (POAC '15)
  • Location: Trondheim , Norway
  • Date: 2015-6-14 to 2015-6-18
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 21p
• Monograph Title: POAC '15: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions
• Serial:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions
  • Publisher: Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (POAC)
  • ISSN: 0376-6756
  • EISSN: 2077-7841
  • Serial URL: http://www.poac.com/PapersOnline.html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Floating structures; Ice concentration; Ice floes; Icebreaking; Offshore oil industry; Offshore terminals; Simulation; Vessel operations
• Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01617118
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 21 2016 1:42PM