Subsea Intervention Workover Control Systems

API RECOMMENDED PRACTICE 17G5 FIRST EDITION, NOVEMBER 2019

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Contents

Page

1. Scope 1

2. Normative References 4

3. Definitions and Abbreviations 4

   1. Terms and Definitions 4

   2. Abbreviated Terms 7

4. Equipment Requirements 8

   1. General 8

   2. Surface Equipment 10

   3. Subsea Equipment 14

   4. Software and Configuration 16

5. Materials and Fabrication 17

6. Testing 17

   1. General 17

   2. Validation Testing 17

   3. Factory Acceptance Testing 17

7. Marking, Packaging, Storage, and Shipping 18

8. Quality 18

9. Documentation 18

   1. Equipment Documentation 18

   2. System Documentation 19

Annex A (normative) System Requirements 21

Annex B (informative) Equipment Specification Datasheets 27

Annex C (normative) IWOCS Umbilicals 32

Figures

1. Typical TBIRS Control System 2

2. Typical OWIRS Control System 3

3. Typical IWOCS Deployment Methods 3

Tables

1. Equipment Typically Controlled by Intervention System Type 1

2. Equipment References, Codes, and Standards 9

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Subsea Intervention Workover Control Systems

1 Scope

This document provides the requirements for the design, manufacture, and testing of intervention workover control system (IWOCS) equipment. Blowout prevention (BOP) control systems are outside the scope of this Recommended Practice and typically are not connected to the IWOCS.

Some requirements in this document are specific to the execution of end user–defined safety functions. It is the end users’ responsibility to define the safety functions (i.e. timed sequence of events to operate a safety class device) as an input to this document. This document defines “safety class control functions” used to operate safety class devices. Annex A provides guidance on the determination of safety class control functions based on the end user–provided safety functions.

This document identifies the IWOCS equipment typically used in a thru-blowout preventer intervention riser system (TBIRS) and an open-water intervention riser system (OWIRS); see API 17G for more details on these systems and associated components. The IWOCS equipment described in this document may be used for other system types. Table 1 lists equipment typically controlled by an IWOCS. Refer to Figure 1 and Figure 2 for example IWOCS block diagrams for both system types.

Table 1—Equipment Typically Controlled by Intervention System Type

IWOCS equipment may be configured in one of the control system architectures listed below. It is not the intent of this document to mandate the type of control system architecture used for a given application.

• Direct hydraulic control system (see 3.1.2 for definition);

• Discrete hydraulic control system (see 3.1.3 for definition);

• Electro-hydraulic (EH) control system (see 3.1.4 for definition);

• Multiplex (MUX) control system (see 3.1.7 for definition).