At MCS Kenny our focus is on combining innovative thinking with engineering experience
We are continuously pushing the boundaries of advanced analysis techniques for a range of offshore design applications from the treatment of high frequency intermittent contact problems to component optimisation using 3D finite element analysis.
As part of our design verification services and for the purpose of proprietary software validation MCS Kenny has developed full 3D ABAQUS and ANSYS models of bend stiffeners, bend restrictors and associated steelwork for the determination of the composite bending response of the flexible pipes in the termination region.
MCS Kenny uses its unique advanced multi pipe-in-pipe dynamic analysis capability for the determination of contact loads, wear rates and primary and secondary responses in deepwater completion, workover and drilling applications.
With the purpose of reducing conservatisms in more traditional design methods and to achieve enabling solutions in deeper water, Our advanced design approach currently accommodates the true non-linear hysteretic stick-slip nature of the multi-layer flexible pipes for the determination of bending capacities and tensile wire fatigue. This technique is also currently used to form the case for asset life extension for older fields.
For SCRs, the complex nature of suction loading, breakout, seabed stiffness, self-trenching together with slugging fatigue, wave and vessel loading is addressed rigorously as part of the our design approach.
The determination of dynamic seismic response on WHP conductors is part of this capability and is currently being used to limit wall thicknesses and casing weights for marginal fields.
The techniques for integrating of detailed dynamic FE response evaluation of riser and moorings with the fully coupled response of the host or offloading facility has undergone extensive development within MCS Kenny in the past 5 to 6 years and has been applied in key deepwater developments.
The above examples are just a synopsis of the advances techniques MCS Kenny are employing to enable marginal or deepwater developments, mitigate risk and increase or prolong production.
We employ advanced techniques to enable marginal or deepwater developments, mitigate risk and increase or prolong production
