Flow Assurance Training (Technical Method)

Flow Assurance AnalysisTraining (Technical Method)

The scope of the training cover detail flow assurance stability in pipelines. This popular course provides participants with a multidisciplinary understanding of flow assurance

For more info contact: Tel: 08133476558, 07085740887
Address: Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Email: vogwconcept50 (at) gmail.com

Port Harcourt contact: 08032766980

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COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE 1
1.0. Fluid Properties and Phase behaviour modeling
1.1. Component of production system
1.2. Flow assurance concerns that need to be examined:

• Pipeline rupture from corrosion
• Pipeline blockage from hydrates or wax
• Severe slugging can damage separator
• Large pressure drop in pipelines can cause lower flow than should be

MODULE 2
2.1. Flow assurance strategies that need to be adopted:

• Hydraulic Analysis – acceptable pressure drops, pipeline size, erosion & corrosion limits
• Thermal Analysis – temperature distribution, heat loss
• Inhibition Analysis – hydrate inhibitors, wax inhibitors, corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors

2.2. Flow assurance strategies Terms
· Beggs and Brill method
· Volume fraction, holdup and water cut
· Superficial velocity
· Mixture velocity and density
· Mass conservation
· Momentum conservation
· Energy conservation
· Mass transfer between phases
· Subsonic vs. transonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows

MODULE 3
3.1. Steady State Design:

• Hydraulics
  
  • Line Sizing
  • Pressure Drop
  • Max./Min. Velocity
  • Flow Regime Prediction
  • Slugging (Hydrodynamic and Severe Slugging)
    
    • Pots equation for Severe Slugging (or Terrain Slugging)
    • Mean Slug Length and Probabilistic Model for
      
      • Slug Length (Hill & Wood Method)
      • Maximum Slug Length = 6 times the mean slug length
      • Slug Frequency (Hill & Wood Method)

3.2· Pigging slugs
o A quasi-transient model of Baker – McDonald

• Thermal
  
  • Insulation Requirements:
    
    • Hydrate Formation
    • Wax Deposition
    
    
  • Insulation Types
    
    • Pipe-in-Pipe
    • Wet Insulation
    • Flexible Pipe

MODULE 4
4.1 Transient Design:

• Shut Down
  
  • Planned
  • Unplanned
  • Extended
  
  
• Depressurisation
• Blow Down
• Turn Down – Ramp up (For Gas Condensate Systems)
• Start-up
  
  • Cold Start-up
  • Warm Start-up
  • Interrupted Start-up
  
  
• Pigging
• Presentation of Result and Project reporting
  
• Project work/ Case study

For more info contact: Tel: 08133476558, 07085740887
Address: Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Email: vogwconcept50 (at) gmail.com

Port Harcourt contact: 08032766980