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1.0 INTRODUCTION
General
Shell Gabon is operating and producing oils from numerous fields located in the western
part of Gabon. Crude is treated and exported from the Gamba Terminal to tankers through
a 30 inch offshore export line connected to a SBM via a PLEM and 2 x 16 inch floating
hose strings (risers).
The total length of the existing export line is about 10.7km from the export pump in Gamba
terminal to a PLEM (1.3km located onshore and 9.4km located offshore).
Shell Gabon intends to replace the existing export pipeline. Zeetech B.V. has been
awarded by Shell to perform a concept replacement study and Front End Engineering
Design (FEED) for the selected concept.
Scope
This report presents cathodic protection design of new dual 22 inch Gamba export line for
onshore and offshore sections including its expansion spools in accordance with
Company Design Engineering Practices (Ref. 1 and Ref. 2).
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System of Units
In accordance with Shell DEP 00.00.20.10, the International System (SI) of units is
adopted as the main system of units unless noted otherwise.
Abbreviations
CP Cathodic Protection
KP Kilometer Post
Results Summary
The required cathodic protection of the dual 22 inch Gamba export line from onshore
Gamba terminal to offshore PLEM/SBM has been designed in accordance with Ref. 1
and Ref. 2 for onshore and offshore pipelines respectively.
The onshore pipeline will be buried from KP 0.0 to KP 1.1 outside Gamba Terminal area.
Based on the On-bottom Stability report (Ref. 7), for the onshore pipeline which is buried
underneath the water table will have a concrete coating of 50mm. Therefore, a bracelet
sacrificial anode is used in-line with the offshore pipeline cathodic protection system. The
offshore pipeline will be buried from KP 1.1 to KP 1.3 and the remaining section up to KP
10.6 will be laid on the seabed.
Table 3-1 below show the required anode quantities from the analysis to meet the design
criteria stated above.
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Table 3-1 Summary of Cathodic Protection Design for a 22in Gamba Export Pipeline
Notes:
1. Anode spacing of 300m (24 joints) for offshore pipeline has been recommended in accordance with the requirements of Ref. 2.
2. Dual 22 in Gamba export pipeline will be routed parallel from Gamba terminal to the PLEM/SBM, hence the anode required above shall be applicable
to both pipelines.
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Recommendations
The following subsections presents design data used in the cathodic protection design.
Pipeline Data
The pipeline properties used in the design are presented in Table 4-1 below. This data
is applicable to both pipelines.
22in Gamba
Descriptions Units
Export Lines
Onshore m 1100
Spool m 25
Onshore mm 50
Selected Concrete
Offshore mm 65
Coating thickness
Spool mm 0
Environmental Data
The seawater resistivity of 0.22m has been taken from Figure A.1 of Ref. 4. A salinity
of 3% and seawater temperature of 25oC has been assumed in the analysis.
Anode Data
Refer to Ref. 2, aluminum alloy anodes has been used for sacrificial anodes material. A
flush mounted bracelet anode has been selected.
Design values of the galvanic anode has been extracted from Table B of Ref. 2 and
shown in Table 4-2.
For non-buried pipeline, the anodes surface temperature has been taken as the external
pipeline temperature, not the internal fluid temperature.
As per Sec. 7.4 of Ref. 2 a utilization factor of 0.85 has been used for the bracelet and
flush mounted anode.
General
Cathodic protection design for new dual 22in Gamba export line is in accordance with
the Shell DEP 30.10.73.31 (Ref. 1) and Shell DEP 30.10.73.32 (Ref. 2) for onshore and
offshore pipeline respectively.
The mean current demand, Icm, and final demand is calculated from:
=
Where:
current demand for specific pipeline section (A)
total surface area for specific pipeline section (m2)
coating breakdown factor, calculated for mean and final conditions
current density, selected for mean and final conditions (A)
The coating breakdown factor is calculated based on equation (1) and (2) of Ref. 4. For
mean coating breakdown factor is,
= (1.75 ) + (0.5 )
For final coating breakdown factor is,
= (1.75 ) + ( )
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Where:
initial coating breakdown factor at start of pipeline operation;
To account for coating damage during fabrication and installation or workmanship
damage, factor of 1.75 is used as recommended by Ref. 2 Sec. 6.5.
average yearly increase in the coating breakdown factor;
design life of the pipeline (years).
For offshore pipeline, the initial coating breakdown factor are extracted from Table 3 of
Ref. 4.
Recommended mean current density has been extracted from Figure 2 of Ref. 4 using
the upper conservative curve. Mean current density of 0.068 A/m2 for 25oC of seawater
temperature is used in the analysis.
For pipeline fully buried in sediments or artificially covered (e.g. rock dumping), a design
current density (mean and final) of 0.02 A/m2 is used.
For onshore pipelines, the current densities which has been multiplied by coating
breakdown factor is extracted from Table-1 of Ref. 3.
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Table 5-2 Design current density & coating breakdown factor for Onshore Pipeline ( * )
3-layer epoxy-polyethylene
0.08 0.1 0.4
3-layer epoxy polypropylene
(1) Refer to Ref. 3, for pipelines operating at elevated temperatures, the current density value shall be
increased by 25% for each 10oC rise in temperature above 30oC.
Based on Table 5-2 above, for fluid temperature of 55oC, design current density which
has been multiplied by coating breakdown factor is taken to be 0.000375 A/m2.
The total net anode mass required to maintain cathodic protection throughout the design
life is calculated based on equation below.
8760
=
Where:
total net anode mass (kg)
mean current (Ampere)
design life (years)
electrochemical capacity of the anode material (A.h/kg)
utilization factor (0.85 for bracelet flush mounted anodes Sec. 7.4 of Ref. 4)
The number of the anodes required can be derived from the following equation,
=
Where:
number of anode
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A boundary on the number of anodes is given by the maximum allowable spacing. The
maximum spacing based on Ref. 4 is 300m.
To provide the required current, the actual anode current output shall be greater than or
equal to the required current output as given below,
Where:
= required end of life individual anode current output (Ampere)
=
actual individual anode current output at the end of life (Ampere)
Where:
environmental resistivity (ohm.m) see Sec. 4.2.
exposed surface area of the anode (m2).
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Design Assumptions
The following assumptions have been considered in this cathodic protection analysis.
The coating breakdown factor, , and the electrochemical capacity, , used in
the CP design is assumed to be same over the life of the pipeline.
Attenuation of protection is considered not required to be performed as the
selected anode spacing does not exceed 300m in accordance with the Annex
A.10 of Ref. 4.
The coating breakdown factor on field joint coating is as per the requirements of
Shell DEP guideline.
As there is no data available, resistivity of the onshore soil is assumed to be
3.40m.
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6.0 RESULTS
Results of the cathodic protection design are presented in the following subsections.
Anode Properties
The anode dimension and density of the alloy used in cathodic protection design is
presented in Table 6-1.
Property Value
Anode thickness Onshore 50
(mm)
Offshore 65
Anode length (mm) 90
Half shell gap (mm) 100
Anode density (kg/m 3) 2700
Table 6-2 shows the minimum anode mass required to meet the required total anode
net mass.
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Table 6-2 Summary of Cathodic Protection Design for a 22in Gamba Export Pipeline
Notes:
1. Anode spacing of 300m (24 joints) for offshore pipeline has been recommended in accordance with requirements of Ref. 2.
2. Dual 22 in Gamba export pipeline will be routed parallel from Gamba terminal to the PLEM/SBM, hence the anode required above shall be applicable
to both pipelines.
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7.0 REFERENCES