Patent ID: 8540030

Claim:
A method of monitoring and managing a plurality of marine riser assets, the method comprising the steps of: operationally deploying a plurality of riser joints from a vessel to form an operationally deployed marine riser string; reading riser joint identification data from a riser joint identification indicator for each of the plurality of riser joints during the operational deployment thereof, the riser joint identification indicator connected to the respective riser joint and carrying or containing information about the respective riser joint sufficient to separately identify the respective riser joint of the plurality of riser joints being deployed from each other of the plurality of riser joints during subsea deployment, the reading of the riser joint identification data from each of the plurality of riser joints performed by a riser joint identification sensor; identifying the respective riser joint being operationally deployed to thereby track the deployment thereof responsive to the riser joint identification data read from the respective riser joint identification indicator; receiving load data for each of the plurality of riser joints from a corresponding plurality of riser joint measurement instrument modules connected thereto; and performing one or more of the following steps: detecting an anomaly in the load data of one or more of the plurality of deployed riser joints when existing, and estimating fatigue damage to each of the plurality of deployed riser joints responsive to the load data of the one or more of the plurality of deployed riser joints.