Patent ID: 8074720

Claim:
A riser lifecycle management system for monitoring and managing a plurality of marine riser assets positionable at one or more separate floating vessels each having a floor, a well bay extending therethrough, a local shipboard communication network carried by the vessel, and a shipboard computer in communication with the local shipboard communication network and including a processor, and memory coupled to the processor to store operating instructions therein, the system comprising: a riser joint identification sensor positioned at or adjacent the well bay and operably coupled to the communication network; a plurality of riser joints deployable from the vessel to form a riser string, each riser joint including an identification indicator; and riser asset management program product stored in the memory of the shipboard computer to monitor and manage a plurality of riser assets, the riser asset management program product including instructions that when executed by the shipboard computer, cause the shipboard computer to perform the operations of: receiving riser joint identification data from the riser joint identification sensor for each of the plurality of riser joints during deployment from the vessel to form the riser string, and determining a relative deployed position location of the each of the plurality of deployed riser joints within the riser string responsive to the received riser joint identification data.