‘o18/2020 Flow assurance for elfshore and subsea facies - PeroWiki Flow assurance for offshore and subsea facilities Flow assurance, by definition, focuses on the whole engineering and production life cycle from the reservoir through refining, to ensure with high confidence that the reservoir fluids can be moved from the reservoir to the refinery smoothly and without interruption. Contents Over ‘Special considerations Pressure support consideration ‘Component and system design consideration Multiphase flow considerations Technology development References Noteworthy papers in OnePetro Online multimedia External links See also Overview ‘The full scope of flow assurance is shown in Fig. 1. Flow assurance matters specific to subsea tieback systems are shown in Fig. 2. Flow assurance is sometimes referred to as “cash assurance” because breakdown in flow assurance anywhere in the entire cycle would be expected to lead to monetary losses. A few specific flow assurance issues are discussed next. Fig. 1—Full scope of flow assurance (courtesy of MSL Engineering). S }|\ lest Fig. 2—Flow assurance matters for subsea tieback systems (courtesy of BP). hitpsipetrowkispe.org/Flow_assurance_for_offshore_and subsea facities 18‘o18/2020 Flow assurance for offshore and subsea facie - PeroWiki Special considerations Pressure support consideration tis necessary for sufficient pressure to be available to transport the hydrocarbons at the required flow rates from the reservoir to the processing unit. Matters that require consideration in this regard include: + Pressure loss in flowlines + Separator pressure setpoint + Pressure loss in wells Artificial lift method selection + Remote multiphase boosting + Drag reduction + Slugging in horizontal wells + Gas lift system stability * Interaction with reservoir performance Component and system design consideration ‘Components and systems should be designed and operated to ensure that flowrate targets are achieved and that flow is continuous. Issues to be taken into account include: + Hydrate formation + Wax deposition + Asphaltenes + Sand and solids transport + Corrosion «Erosion + Scale deposition * Interaction of slugging and pipe fitings * Interaction of slugging and risers © Relief and blow-down 1» Pigging + Liquid inventory management + Well shut-in pressure Multiphase flow considerations For multiphase flowlines, it is necessary for the process to be able to handle the fluid delivery, and consideration should be given to a number of issues including * Interaction with facilities performance + Slugging (steady state) + Slugging (transient) © Slug-catcher design + Severe slugging prevention * Effect of flow rate change + Temperature loss prediction Piping layout + Remote multiphase metering + Gas and dense phase export + Oil and condensate export + Separator performance hitpsiipetrowkispe.org/Flow_assurance_for_offshore_and subsea facities 28‘o18/2020 Flow assurance for offshore and subsea facilities -PatroWic Technology development ‘The need for well testing and overall produetion system optimization contributes to flow assurance issues. advances have been made in this field. Flow assurance will continue to remain critical technology as deepwater developments progress and as longer tiebacks from subsea wellhead systems are considered, References Use this section for citation of items referenced in the text to show your sourees, [The sources should be available to the reader, ie., not an internal company document.] Noteworthy papers in OnePetro Use this section to list papers in OnePetro that a reader who wants to learn more should definitely read Online multimedia Jamaluddin, Abul. 2013. Flow Assurance - Managing Flow Dynamics and Production ‘Chemistry. https://webevents.spe.org/products/flow-assurance-managing-flow-dynamies-and-production-chemistry- 2 External links Use this section to provide links to relevant material on websites other than PetroWiki and OnePetro See also Offshore and subsea facilities Offshore arctic operations Subsea systems PEH:Offshore_and_Subsea_Facilities Retrieved from “hitpsilipetrowiki.spe.org/index. php? title=Flow_assurance_for_offshore_and_subsea faciltiesSoldid=53683" This page was last edited on 15 January 2018, at 10:30, Copyright 2012-2020, Society of Petroleum Engineers hitpsipetrowkispe.org/Flow_assurance_for_offshore_and subsea facities 38