A MIXED INTEGER-PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR PERIODIC ROUTING OF SPECIAL VESSELS IN OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY

Authors

  • Abdolhamid Eshraghniaye Jahromi Sharif University of Technology
  • Roohollah Ighani Yazdeli Sharif University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2015.22.5.1542

Keywords:

Oil wellheads, Periodic routing, Mobile wellhead servants, Supporter vessels, Heuristic algorithm

Abstract

In order to maintain the production of offshore oil wells, National Iranian Oil Company periodically services facilities and equipment located in oil wellheads with mobile wellhead servants. It also gives technical supports to oil wellheads and mobile wellhead servants with supporter vessels. Due to supply limitations, there are fewer special vessels (namely supporter vessels and mobile wellhead servants) compared to the number of oil wellheads. Failure to service oil wellheads by special vessels and also failure to technically support mobile wellhead servants by supporter vessels based on a predetermined plan, will lead to considerable loss in production performance of oil wells and hence higher costs. Finding best plan to service oil wellheads considering traveling and shortage costs, we propose a mixed integer programming model and a heuristic algorithm for the problem. Computational results on both simulated and real life instances are reported and performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated.

 

Author Biographies

Abdolhamid Eshraghniaye Jahromi, Sharif University of Technology

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering,

Sharif University of Technology

Roohollah Ighani Yazdeli, Sharif University of Technology

Ph.D. Candidate

Published

2015-10-26

How to Cite

Eshraghniaye Jahromi, A., & Ighani Yazdeli, R. (2015). A MIXED INTEGER-PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR PERIODIC ROUTING OF SPECIAL VESSELS IN OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY. International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 22(5). https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2015.22.5.1542

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Section

Operation Research