Subsea blowout preventer (BOP): Design, reliability, testing, deployment, and operation and maintenance challenges

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dc.contributor.authorShafiee, Mahmood
dc.contributor.authorElusakin, Tobi
dc.contributor.authorEnjema, Evenye M.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-13T13:29:54Z
dc.date.available2020-11-13T13:29:54Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-14
dc.description.abstractSubsea blowout preventer (BOP) is a safety-related instrumented system that is used in underwater oil drilling to prevent the well to blowout. As oil and gas exploration moves into deeper waters and harsher environments, the setbacks related to reliable functioning of the BOP system and its subsystems remain a major concern for researchers and practitioners. This study aims to systematically review the current state-of-the-art and present a detailed description about some of the recently developed methodologies for through-life management of the BOP system. Challenges associated with the system design, reliability analysis, testing, deployment as well as operability and maintainability are explored, and then the areas requiring further research and development will be identified. A total of 82 documents published since 1980's are critically reviewed and classified according to two proposed frameworks. The first framework categorises the literature based on the depth of water in which the BOP systems operate, with a sub-categorization based on the Macondo disaster. The second framework categorises the literature based on the techniques applied for the reliability analysis of BOP systems, including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Petri Net (PN), Markov modelling, Bayesian Network (BN), Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS), etc. Our review analysis reveals that the reliability analysis and testing of BOP has received the most attention in the literature, whereas the design, deployment, and operation and maintenance (O&M) of BOPs received the least.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationShafiee M, Elusakin T, Enjema E. (2020) Subsea blowout preventer (BOP): Design, reliability, testing, deployment, and operation and maintenance challenges. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Volume 66, July 2020, Article number 104170en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0950-4230
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2020.104170
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15997
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectOil and gasen_UK
dc.subjectBlowout preventer (BOP)en_UK
dc.subjectDeepwateren_UK
dc.subjectDesignen_UK
dc.subjectReliabilityen_UK
dc.subjectTestingen_UK
dc.subjectDeploymenten_UK
dc.subjectOperation and maintenance (O&M)en_UK
dc.titleSubsea blowout preventer (BOP): Design, reliability, testing, deployment, and operation and maintenance challengesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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