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1 USOO B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 6,955,221 B2 Bursaux (45) Date of Patent: Oct. 18, 2005 (54) ACTIVE HEATING OF THERMALLY GB O /1957 INSULATED FLOWLINES GB /1967 GB /1969 (75) Inventor: Gabriel André Bursaux, Houston, TX GB /1998 (US) WO WO O2/O53869 A1 7/2001 WO WO O2/O63128 A1 8/2002 (73) Assignee: Stolt Offshore Inc., Houston, TX (US) WO WO 03/ A1 10/2003 (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this OTHER PUBLICATIONS patent is extended or adjusted under 35 &&Y - s U.S.C. 154(b) by 25 days. L. D. Brown et al., Design of Britannia's Subsea Heated Bundle for a 25 Year Service Life"; 1999 Offshore Technol ogy Conference held in Houston, Texas, May 3-6, (21) Appl. No.: 10/445,119 OTC (22) Filed: May 23, 2003 J.E. Smith; Challenges of the Britannia Subsea Develop (65) Prior Publication Data ment'; 1999 Offshore Technology Conference held in Hous ton, Texas, May 3 6, OTC US 2004/ A1 Mar. 4, 2004 Related U.S. Application Data * cited b cited by examiner (60) Provisional application No. 60/ , filed on May 31, Primary Examiner Zakiya Walker (51) Int. Cl.... E21B 3600 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Sheridan Ross PC. (52) U.S. Cl /303; 166/61 (57) ABSTRACT (58) Field of Search /57, 61, 302, 166/303; 138/114, 149 Hydrocarbon liquids are transported from a Subsea wellihead to an above-surface hydrocarbon processing facility along a (56) References Cited pipe-in-pipe flowline. The flowline is a pipe placed coaxially within an outer carrier pipe and the annulus between the U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS pipes is filled with thermally insulating material. The hydro 2.911,047 11/1959 Henderson /61 carbon liquids have their temperature maintained above 3,626,987. A 12/1971 Bittner /114 Solidification/precipitation temperature by heat from an 3,955,601 A 5/1976 Plummer, III /149 active heating System. Hot liquid, preferably hot water, is 5,853,031. A 12/1998 de Oliveira /149 passed along the annulus, either along a single pipe or 5,979,506 * 11/1999 Aarseth /33 multiple pipes installed in the insulation-filled annulus, or 6,082,391 7/2000 Thiebaud et al. along an inner annulus formed by a water pipe added 6,145,547 A 11/2000 Villatte concentrically around the hydrocarbon-transporting inner 6,328,074 B1 * 12/2001 Wright et al /137 th 6,509,557 B1 1/2003 Bass ,772 pipe, inside the outer insulation-filled annulus. The water or 6,588,500 B2 7/2003 Lewis /61 other Suitable liquid can be heated in a heater at or adjacent B2 8/2004 Beida et al /61 the Subsea wellhead, or by a water heater in the above Surface hydrocarbon processing facility. FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS FR / Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets
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4 U.S. Patent Oct. 18, 2005 Sheet 3 of 3 US 6,955,221 B F.G.3
5 1 ACTIVE HEATING OF THERMALLY INSULATED FLOWLINES CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/385,243 filed in May 31, The entire disclosure of the provisional application is con sidered to be part of the disclosure of the accompanying application and is hereby incorporated by reference. This invention relates to active heating of thermally insulated flowlines, and relates more particularly to the active Supply of heat to hydrocarbons in hydrocarbon transporting flowlines of the pipe-in-pipe type. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In the development and exploitation of Submarine hydro carbon reservoirs, Subsea wells are commonly used to extract the hydrocarbon fluids which can then be transported through Submarine flowlines to above-surface hydrocarbon processing facilities at Sea or on land. Depending on the characteristics of the hydrocarbon fluids, it may be necessary to maintain the temperature of the hydrocarbon fluids being transported in the flowline above a specific temperature thereby to prevent the flowline becoming blocked due to the Solidification of wax, hydrates, or asphaltenes. The tempera ture of the hydrocarbon fluids in the flowline is normally maintained by Surrounding the external Surface of the flow line with a covering of material that has good thermal insulation properties. Depending on the level of thermal insulation required, this flowline covering can range from an external coating of polymer (e.g. polypropylene) to a pipe in-pipe System, wherein the hydrocarbon-transporting pipe is placed coaxially within an Outer carrier pipe and the annulus between the pipes is filled with thermally insulating material. It is noted that conduits for hydrocarbons have previously been encased along parts of their length, either for Simple bundling and/or for Structural Support. The term "pipe inpipe as used herein refers to a class of double-walled conduits with very high insulation performance, where inner and outer conduits are pre-formed into a rigid unit with a Sealed annular space between the inner and outer conduits. The pipe-in-pipe conduit may be assembled from pre formed pipe-in-pipe Sections, or assembled from Separate inner and outer pipe Section directly into a longer pipe-in pipe unit. The pipe-in-pipe flowline may be arranged horizontally on the Seabed, or may form part of a riser or riser tower of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,082,391 Stolt-Doris), or in copending international application WO 02/53869A 63752WO), not published at the present priority date. The pipe-in-pipe flowline may be formed as described in French Patent FR (assigned to ITP), including provision of reduced gas pressure to improve insulation. The pipe-in-pipe flowline may be formed with an auxiliary conduit as described in application PCT/EP03/ WO), also not published at the present priority date. The contents of all these applications are incorporated herein by reference, especially for their teaching of pipe-in-pipe products and fabrication techniques. The compositions of the hydrocarbon fluids found in Some Submarine reservoirs, particularly in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa and Brazil, require thermal insulation values beyond those available from conventional pipe-in-pipe Systems. During the operation of a SubSea US 6,955,221 B hydrocarbon field, the wells linking the reservoir to the above-surface hydrocarbon processing facility are often required to be closed, thus leaving non-flowing hydrocarbon fluids in the flowline. During these shut-in conditions the fluids are dependent on the thermal insulation System to maintain their temperature above that at which blockages may form. Under these shut-in conditions, even conven tional pipe-in-pipe Systems may not be able to provide Sufficient thermal insulation to maintain the temperature of the hydrocarbons above that at which flowline blockages will occur, especially for a shut-in of extended duration. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a flowline heating system and a heated flowline that will obviate or mitigate the inadequacies of prior art arrange ments. According to a first aspect of the invention there is provided a method of actively heating hydrocarbon liquids contained in a hydrocarbon-transporting pipe-in-pipe flow line whose annulus contains thermally insulating material and/or a partial vacuum for high insulation performance, the method comprising the Step of passing hot liquid along the annulus. The hot liquid is preferably water. According to a Second aspect of the invention there is provided an active heating System for the active Supply of heat to hydrocarbon liquids in a hydrocarbon-transporting flowline of the pipe-in-pipe type wherein a hydrocarbon transporting pipe is placed coaxially within an Outer carrier pipe and the annulus between the pipes is filled with thermally insulating material, the active heating System comprising conduit means extending along the annulus, the conduit means being adapted to carry hot liquid. The hot liquid is preferably water. The invention includes an active hot water heating System for a pipe-in-pipe Submarine flowline System, with the hot water System included within the carrier pipe. The hot water can either be Supplied from the above-surface hydrocarbon process facility and pumped towards the SubSea Wellhead, or the hot water can be Supplied from a Subsea water heater near the Subsea wellhead and pumped towards the above Surface process facilities. The water may be Substituted by other Suitable liquids. It is thus proposed to Supplement the hydrocarbon temperature-sustaining thermal insulation properties of pipe-in-pipe Systems with an additional active heating Sys tem disposed within the outer carrier pipe. The present invention enables the active heating to be provided by a hot water System located within the Outer carrier pipe, with the water provided by the processing facilities or a via a water heating System located at the well end of the flowline and energised by power from a platform or other installation that is the flowline destination (or a flowline waystation). This will allow the pipe-in-pipe concept to be used in more aggressive hydrocarbon fluid conditions by enabling the production and relatively trouble-free transport of a wider range of hydrocarbon fluids than could be reliably carried in unheated flowlines. The pipe-in-pipe concept also provides a method of keeping the fluids warm during Shut-in conditions, and is expected to prove more cost effective and reliable than electrical active heating Systems which have been used previously since Steel pipe (for carrying heating liquid) is basically cheaper than copper cable, there is no reliance on contact between electrical cable and the flowline, and liquid heating Systems obviate the risk of localised over-heating in electrical heating Systems that could cause
6 3 excessive gas expansion and eventual explosion. The hot water System can also be used as a remedial measure in the event of a hydrocarbon flowline becoming internally blocked, e.g. by the formation of Solid hydrate or a wax plug. In this eventuality, the heat from the hot water system will be applied along the length of the flowline to melt the hydrate or wax plug. This use of heat as an unblocking procedure is a very cost-effective alternative to the very difficult procedure of trying to find the location of a blockage within a flowline, and then either applying localised heat, or cutting out and removing the blocked Section, or fabricating a bypass flowline around the blockage. Suitable liquids can be substituted for the heating water. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein: FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-section of a first embodiment of the invention; FIG. 2 is a Schematic cross-section of a Second embodi ment of the invention; and FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-section of a third embodiment of the invention. Common reference Signs will be used for corresponding parts, with prefix 1, 2, 3 in the corresponding figures. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring first to FIG. 1, this shows the schematic trans verse cross-section of a pipe-in-pipe ( p-i-p ) thermally insulated hydrocarbon-transporting flowline wherein hot hydrocarbon liquids (or hydrocarbon liquid/gas mixtures) are transported along the inner pipe, and are thermally insulated by an annular blanket of thermally insulating material 100 Substantially filling the annulus between the inner hydrocarbon-transporting flowline pipe 102 and the concentric outer carrier pipe 104. A hot water input pipe 106 is located radially mid-way between the inner and outer pipes, and extends along the length of the pipe-in-pipe flowline. Diametrically opposite the hot water input pipe 108, a hot water return pipe is located radially mid-way between the inner and outer pipes, and extends along the length of the pipe-in-pipe flowline. The pipe may be made in double walled Sections or assembled from inner and outer pipe Sections as described in co-pending applications of associated companies cited in the introduction and incorporated herein by reference. In the basic arrangement shown in FIG. 1: 1. the active heat input is provided by a single hot water Supply pipe 106 embedded within the insulation material 100 in the annulus between the inner hydrocarbon flow line 102 and the outer carrier pipe 104, the Supply pipe 106 extending the full length of the pipe-in-pipe flowline; 2. after actively Supplying heat to Sustain a blockage inhibiting temperature in the inner pipe, the used heating water is returned to a water heater (not shown) through a return pipe 108 (or discharge pipe) embedded within the thermal insulation material filling the annulus within the Outer carrier pipe; 3. the return pipe 108 can be omitted if the used heating water is discharged from the flowline directly into the Sea at the far end of the flowline; and 4. the return pipe 108 could alternatively be mounted outside of the carrier pipe in a "piggy-back arrangement (See also FIG. 2 described below). US 6,955,221 B Referring now to FIG. 2, this shows a modification of the pipe-in-pipe arrangement of FIG. 1, in which: 1. the active heat input is provided by a plurality of circum ferentially Spaced-apart hot water Supply pipes 206 embedded within the insulation material (hatching omit ted for clarity) in the annulus between the inner hydro carbon flowline 202 and the outer carrier pipe 204, the Supply pipes extending the full length of the pipe-in-pipe flowline; 2. the plurality of hot water Supply pipes are in this example located in the radially innermost part of the annulus, i.e. next to the Outer Surface of the hydrocarbon-transporting inner pipe 202, and these Supply pipes could be wound in a helical formation along the axis of the hydrocarbon flowline; 3. after actively Supplying heat to Sustain a blockage inhibiting temperature in the inner pipe, the used heating water is returned to the water heater through a single return pipe 208 piggy-backed to the exterior of the outer carrier pipe; 4. the return pipe 208 can be omitted if the used heating water is discharged directly into the Sea at the far end of the flowline; and 5. the return pipe 208 (or plural pipes) could alternatively be embedded in the annulus within the outer carrier pipe (as in the FIG. 1 arrangement). Referring now to FIG. 3, this shows the schematic trans verse cross-section of a triple concentric pipe-in-pipe-in pipe hydrocarbon flowline with thermal insulation and active heating. Whereas the FIG. 2 arrangement was the FIG. 1 arrangement modified by multiplying the number of hot water supply pipes and distributing them around the innermost hydrocarbon-transporting pipe, the FIG. 3 arrangement is a modification of the FIG. 2 arrangement in which the hot water Supply pipes are merged into a single large-diameter pipe forming a hot water-filled annulus around the innermost hydrocarbon-transporting pipe. In the FIG. 3 arrangement: 1. the hydrocarbon-transporting 302 pipe is concentrically located inside an inner carrier pipe 306, with hot water 307 passing through the annulus between the hydrocarbon-transporting pipe 302 and the inner carrier pipe 306, and the annulus between the inner carrier pipe and the outer carrier pipe is filled with thermally insulat ing material 300; 2. after actively Supplying heat to Sustain a blockage inhibiting temperature in the inner pipe 302, the used heating water is returned to the water heater through a Single return pipe 308 piggy-backed to the exterior of the outer carrier pipe; 3. the return pipe 308 can be omitted if the used heating water is discharged directly into the Sea at the far end of the flowline; and 4. the return pipe 308 could alternatively be embedded in the thermally insulating material, for example within the outer annulus between the inner and outer carrier pipes 306, 304. The active heating System of the present invention can be applied in Subsea oilfield developments where fluid chem istry issues are important. This is the case for virtually all deepwater oilfield developments and many marginal oil fields in the North Sea. In carrying out the invention and having regard to cost/ efficiency ratios, the preferred liquid for active heating is Substantially pure water, i.e. water that is clean, mineral free, de-ionised and ph-neutral. However, the invention can be performed with other liquids, including but not restricted
7 S to water that is relatively impure, i.e. water that is not perfectly clean and mineral-free, with Suitable precautions against corrosion and encrustation, raw Seawater could be used, with consequently reduced cost in open-circuit heating Systems. The invention can also be performed with non aqueous liquids, e.g. with Suitable hydrocarbons (normally in closed-circuit heating Systems) and possibly with the produced hydrocarbons carried by the pipeline (or with a Separated fraction of the produced hydrocarbons) tapped from the pipeline (via a fraction Separator if fractionation is required), heated, and circulated along the heating channel(s). While certain alternative exemplary forms of the inven tion have been described above together with potential modifications and variations thereof, the invention is not restricted thereto, and other modifications and variations can be adopted without departing from the Spirit and Scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. What is claimed is: 1. A method of actively heating hydrocarbon liquids contained in a hydrocarbon-transporting pipe-in-pipe flow line comprising a hydrocarbon-transporting pipe placed coaxially within an outer carrier pipe, a Space between said pipes defining an annulus and containing at least one of a thermally insulating material and partial vacuum, the method comprising the Steps of passing hot liquid along the annulus and returning the initially hot liquid, after use, along a return conduit to a heating means for the hot liquid, wherein the return conduit is located outside the carrier pipe and piggy-backed thereto. 2. A method as claimed in claim 1, including the further Step of confining the hot liquid to a conduit during passage of the hot liquid along the annulus. 3. A method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the hot liquid is passed along a Single conduit extending alongside the hydrocarbon-transporting pipe. 4. A method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the hot liquid is passed along a plurality of conduits extending alongside the hydrocarbon-transporting inner pipe. 5. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the hot liquid is water. 6. An active heating System for the active Supply of heat to hydrocarbon liquids in a hydrocarbon-transporting flow line of the pipe-in-pipe type wherein a hydrocarbon transporting pipe is placed coaxially within an outer carrier pipe and the annulus between the pipes is filled with US 6,955,221 B thermally insulating material, the active heating System comprising at least one heating conduit extending along the annulus, the at least one heating conduit being adapted to carry hot liquid; a return conduit for returning initially hot liquid, after use, to a heating means for heating the liquid; and wherein the return conduit comprises a pipe located Outside the Outer carrier pipe and piggy-backed thereto. 7. An active heating System as claimed in claim 6 wherein the heating conduit comprises a pipe. 8. An active heating System as claimed in claim 7 wherein the at least one heating conduit is helically disposed around the hydrocarbon-transporting inner pipe. 9. An active heating System as claimed in claim 6 wherein the heating conduit comprises a plurality of pipes that are circumferentially distributed around the annulus. 10. An active heating System as claimed in claim 6 wherein the heating conduit comprises a pipe disposed concentrically around the hydrocarbon-transporting inner pipe and concentrically within the insulation-filled annulus. 11. An active heating System as claimed in claim 6 comprising a liquid discharge means for discharging the initially hot liquid into the sea around the flowline after use of the initially hot liquid. 12. An active heating System as claimed in claim 6 wherein the hot liquid is water. 13. The combination of an active heating System as claimed in claim 6 with a liquid heating means. 14. A combination as claimed in claim 13 wherein the liquid heating means is a liquid heater located at or adjacent to a subsea wellhead from which hydrocarbon liquids are transported by the flowline to which the active heating System is applied. 15. A combination as claimed in claim 13, wherein the liquid heating means is a water heater located within an above-surface hydrocarbon processing facility to which hydrocarbon liquids are transported by the flowline to which the active heating System is applied. 16. A combination as claimed in claim 15 when installed between a Subsea wellhead and a conventional above Surface hydrocarbon processing facility including a water heater that is employed as the water heater for heating the water used in the active heating System. k k k k k
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