Flow Assurance for Offshore Production - FAOP

Posted by PetroSkills on Thursday, March 18, 2010

Start Date Monday, June 14, 2010
End Date Friday, June 18, 2010

Location
London, UK

Full Details

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DESIGNED FOR

Engineers, Operators and Technical Managers who are responsible for offshore completions, production and development; Technical Staff needing a foundation in principals, challenges and solutions for offshore flow assurance. The course is also appropriate for persons involved in produced fluids flow in onshore production operations.



YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

Identify the components of a complete flow assurance study for offshore developments and understand how they relate to the production system design and operation.

Interpret and use sampling and laboratory testing results of reservoir fluids relative to flow assurance

Understand the basic properties of reservoir fluids and how they are modeled for the production flowline system

Understand the thermohydraulic modeling of steady state and transient multiphase flow in offshore production systems.

Evaluate and compare mitigation and remediation techniques for: gas hydrates, paraffin (waxes), asphaltenes, emulsions, scale, corrosion, erosion and solids transport, and slugging.

Understand the elements of an operability report for subsea production facilities, flowlines, and export flowlines



ABOUT THE COURSE

Flow assurance is a critical component in the design and operation of offshore production facilities. This is particularly true as the industry goes to deeper water, longer tiebacks, deeper wells and higher temperature and pressure reservoirs. Although gas hydrate issues dominate the thermal design; waxes, asphaltenes, emulsions, scale, corrosion, erosion, solids transport, slugging and operability are all important issues which require considerable effort. The student will be presented with sufficient theory/correlation information to be able to understand the basis for the applications. This intensive 5-day course has considerable time devoted to student application and design exercises to ensure the practical applications are learned.

One personal computer is provided, at additional cost, for each two participants.



COURSE CONTENT

Overview of flow assurance

PVT analysis and fluid properties

Steady state and transient multiphase flow modeling

Hydrate, paraffin and asphaltene control

Corrosion, erosion and sand control

Fluid property and phase behavior modeling

Equations of state (EOS)

Fugacity and equilibrium

Viscosities of oils

Thermal modeling

Steady state multiphase flow modeling

Transient multiphase flow modeling

Multiphase pressure boosting

Slugging: hydrodynamic, terrain induced & ramp up

Commissioning, Start-up, and Shutdown Operations


See full details at http://www.petroskills.com/courseDetails.aspx?courseID=783

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Training Courses