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Ice Risk Management for Floating Operations in Pack Ice

SNAME, Calgary October 2010 By Arno Keinonen, Evan Martin

AKAC INC

Whose Ice Risk? What Ice Risk?

– Oil company and rig owner/operator responsible

1 Oil Company - Desire to have maximum uptime yet being safe 2 Rig operator – Little desire to take risks 3 Overseeing organizations, regulators, standards

– Biggest ice risks – Pioneering

• Lack of understanding environment, equipment,
• peration – and resulting associated risks
• Lack of appropriate strategy for safe

learning/contingency/layered safety

• New operators

Reference Operations

• Beaufort Sea Drillships, 1975 - 1989

– Ice class drillships with icebreaker support (4 – 5 icebreaking vessels)

• Kulluk 1982 - 1993

– Custom designed ice capable floating drillrig, with custom designed icebreakers (2 – 4 icebreakers)

• Sakhalin Dynamic Positioning, 1999

– Ice class construction vessel with icebreaker support (2 icebreakers)

• Sakhalin 2, phase 1 Oil Production 1999 - 2007

– Bottom founded production platform – Low ice class and capability SALM/FSO with icebreaker support (2 – 5 icebreakers at a time; 15 different icebreakers, ice class vessels)

• Arctic Coring Expedition 2004

– Selected stationary vessel with icebreaker support (2 icebreakers)

Beaufort Sea Drillships

First operation in ice offshore 1975 - 90 In start of winter up to ~0.5 m thick ice Summer time thick ice interfered Learning safely – not in hydrocarbon zone Ice capabilities of vessels and rig not known Ice alert system developed Explorer 4 Kigoriak 3 * Class 2 supply Tug Orion

Kulluk Kalvik

1982 – 1993 Moored conical DrillRig Custom designed system for ice Capabilities of rig and icebreakers known Learning safely, testing in thick old ice Alert system developed further 1.5 m ice plus ridges Icebreakers Terry Fox Kalvik + Icebreaking supply Ikaluk Miscaroo

Sakhalin Dynamic Positioning CSO Constructor

DP operation for diving/under water construction, 1999 – 6 weeks 5 m offset allowed Short t-time – less than 1 hour Safe learning- station keeping without divers Up to 1.7 m ice and stamukhi (rubble bergs) Beaufort Ice alert system adapted CSO Constructor IB Smit Sakhalin IB Magadan

• Ice Capability of

Constructor was not known

Sakhalin 2, phase 1, SALM – FSO Okha

FSO operation - oil Production Molikpaq Custom designed SALM and FSO for ice Ice capability 30 cm winter ice, ice class D0 1 m thick 50 m floes in spring High risk operation T-time 48 hrs 1999 - 2008 early production of oil

SALM – FSO Ice Risk Management

Development of Ice Risk Management Safe learning through layered safety 2 – 5 support icebreakers at a time ( Admiral Makarov, Smit Sakhalin Pacific Enterprice, Svitzer Sakhalin)

Arctic Coring Expedition, 89 degrees N

One off coring operation 2004 3 weeks Central Polar Pack 50 m offset allowed T-time 0 - 4 hours 2.5 – 3m average ice thickness 7 – 8 tenths old ice thick multi year ridges Ice alert system adapted Sovetskiy Soyuz Oden Vidar Viking (coring vessel) Photo courtesy Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

Operational Ice Risks and Experience

Summary of Safety in Pack Ice for Reference Operations

• All operations have been safe (no spill, no fatalities, limited

ice damage to equipment)

• All learning has been done safely
• All but one operation had same

main/oil operator and rig operator and used an ice alert system

• SALM/FSO Oil Production operation different

– Operation lowest iceclass (D0), lowest ice capability, highest risk, longest t-time – Oil Company and Rig operator two different companies – Ice Risk Management became a necessity

Risk - Extreme Ice Features

Stamukhi, within 3 nautical miles from SALM/FSO

Risk - Cold Temperature

Photo courtesy Sakhalin Energy SALM Buoy requires access before laying down

Everything else freezes before the ocean

Risk - Ice Compacting/Ice Pressure

Low ice pressure: Sovetskiy Soyuz breaking ice around operation Oden attempting to clear ice with propeller wake

Limited Visibility Increases Ice Risk

Limits available information Accuracy of data declines when dead reckoning Missing managing some ice floes

Ice Risk Management

– Probability distributions for:

• Ice severity (on arrival)
• Severity of metocean factors (waves, wind, currents)
• Possibility of arrival
• Time of arrival
• Efficiency of ice management
• Severity of interaction
• Full range of ice risk (plus probability of exceedence of
• fficial limits)

Probability distribution for ice arrival

Efficiency of Ice Management (IM)

– Probability distributions, influence on efficiency for:

• Strategy, what ice to manage, when, where and how (pre-

management, traditional ice man., azimuth ice man.)

• Skill and experience of operators
• Human errors (judgment, fatique, failure to execute

instruction)

• Visibility and other metocean factors
• Equipment failure
• Ship collision

– Outcome: – IM efficiency factor - floe size distribution/ice clearing efficiency – probability of ice load on platform

Main Ingredients for Safe, Efficient Pioneering Floating Ice Offshore Operation

– Understanding the ice and environment – Understanding the equipment and operation – Using Ice Alerts, Ice Risk Management for long t-time – Using layered safety – Assigning roles and responsibilities clearly – Establish safe learning procedures – Using experienced operators – Building in training

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