Global analysis of risers, moorings and flowlines

DeepLines® provides oil and gas engineering companies with an integrated tool to design and optimize their risers, flowlines and moorings systems for shallow to deep-water offshore projects. DeepLines is used daily by engineering companies in the oil and gas sector as well as the marine renewable energy sector. The result of this Fortissimo experiment is an investigation of the benefits of running DeepLines on a Cloud-based-HPC system. Currently, the cost advantage is limited since half of the necessary calculations (post-treatment) are not available on an HPC system. However, once the post-treatments are available, the time will be saved across the whole calculation chain, thereby reducing delays and the costs of studies, despite the additional costs for licences and the computer cycles. For simple case studies test, the compute time reduced from 60 days on the customer’s system to 3 days on the HPC system with significant benefits.