Reliability and availability assessment of seabed storage tanks using fault tree analysis

• Published in: Ocean engineering Vol. 120; pp. 1 - 14
• Main Authors: Choi, In-Hwan, Chang, Daejun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2016
• Subjects: Availability; Failure; Maintainability; Marine; New subsea production system; Reliability; Repair; Repair time; Sea beds; Seabed storage tank; Storage tanks; Subsea; PU; FPSO; ELP; hr; HS; ELU; PSCU; UF; RBD; SSBU; New subsea production system; Availability; BOP; SDS; DSV; AIR; VD; FTA; PSU; AU; HCU; λ; TLPs; ISCU; OREDA; MTTR; FMECA; SEU; SSTU; Seabed storage tank; Maintainability; FS; BP; HLS; PTS; SD; SM; SR; SBP; SS; SU; HPFC; IGF; Ft; R(t); CS; r; OSCU; PD; t; SST; MAROS; SCM; Reliability; MTTF; RAM; SSTM

This study proposes the concept of subsea production systems with a seabed storage tank to provide an alternative to conventional floating facilities and performs the reliability, maintainability and availability study for the seabed storage tank. The reliability assessment of the seabed storage tan...