PIPELINES AND DECOMMISSIONING

- PIGGING THE “UNPIGGABLE”

PIPELINES TOOLBOX

EVO-Pig Pipeline Gels Pipeline Decommissioning

Chemicals &Tort
A range of Designed to protect
Remove trapped oil
innovative gel pigs pipelines from Additional fluids and condensate
that enable you to corrosion, pick-up added to perform
effectively maintain debris, de-oil, specialised tasks such Temporary and
“unpiggable” dewater or enhance as cleaning, wax permanent sealing
pipelines pigging operation deposit removal and barrier
placement

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 EVO-PIG
• Novel gel pig technology granting ability
to pig the unpiggable

• 900+ operations from 2” to 30” with

longest run over 100 km

• Unique chemical “memory”– returns to

original dimensions

• Deformable but incompressible –

physical properties remain unchanged,
unlike foam pig potential

• Uses :
• Dewatering/ deoiling /degassing
• Pipeline cleaning, debris removal
• Pig recovery
• Chemical placement through “pig
trains”
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WHAT IS AN EVO-PIG?
• Polymeric Elastic Solid

• Two key variants - LG and XT

• Navigate diameter changes up to 50%

and return to original size

• Negotiate bends less than 1.5 ID

• No requirement for pig launcher or trap

• Discharged through small ports

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HOW DOES IT WORK ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BewrY25m76c
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BENEFITS OF EVO-PIG

• Can effectively navigate bends and sharp

corners

• Expensive pig launching facilities are not

required

• Can travel through diameter reductions of

up to half their size

• Can pig all pipelines, including subsea flow

lines and flexible risers

• Used in a range of applications,

dewatering, deoiling, batching

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 GO WITH THE FLOW

FOLLOWING THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC_iy8NtBsI
EVO-PIG EXTRUSION
Extrusion demonstration

EVO-Pig placed in spool piece with flanged ends.

Inlet delivering water pressure, outlet two small bore
orifices.

Pig ‘destroyed’ allowing material to be collected as

waste in otherwise ‘unpiggable’ lines.

Welding plug extrusion enquiry

EVO-Pig considered for barrier

placement during welding operations
with subsequent removal via small
bore orifice.
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EVO-PIG EXPERIENCE
• Used successfully for pigging flexible risers
to dewater/deoil

• Swabbing capability when used with gel

and surfactant gives effective cleaning
with minimal flushing

• Capable traversing multiple 1D bends and

variable pipeline diameters

• Can be displaced with wide range of

driving fluids – water, gas, produced fluids

• Broad applicability in pre-commissioning /

decommissioning applications around the
world
EVO-PIG TRACK RECORD
• >900 runs successful EVO-Pig runs • Successfully manufactured 2” to 30” EVO-Pig

Date Location Requirement Pipe details Feedback

Gulf of 14" x 109 km, multiple piggable cross-tees and Longest known run of EVO-Pig, received pig
Q1 2019 Dewatering subsea line
Mexico a piggable wye in excellent condition
Gulf of
Q1 2019 Dewatering multi-bore line 100ft x 6", 45,888ft x 8", 1,290ft x 6" Successfully dewatered with nitrogen
Mexico
Maintained seal during installation,
Spool protection and
Q4 2018 North Sea 18", extruding through 3" port protecting spool. Completely dewatered
subsequent dewatering
pipe

Gulf of Dewatering huge diameter 37,000ft x 22" tied in to 7,000ft x 8", Excellent performance and complete
Q3 2017
Mexico change in subsea line extruding out through 3" line dewatering

Dewatering rough bore 6" x 3km riser, 6.5km subsea pipeline,

Q2 2017 West Africa Water content criteria successfully met
riser and subsea pipelines extruding through 3" port

Colorado, Dewatering unpiggable gas

Q1 2017 4" * extruding through reduced bore tee Successful dewatering, restoring flow
USA gathering line
12" topsides containing mitre bends, 8" riser
Dewatering unpiggable
Q2 2016 UK and subsea manifold with 1.5D bends, All water removed
piser topsides system
extruding through 3" check valve

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PIPELINE GELS
• Pumpable liquids

• Enhance the maintenance and production

of all pipelines

• Offers an extremely low risk method to

clean unpiggable and high-risk pipelines

• Self-healing, lubricating and debris-

carrying capability

• Gel enables 360-degree coverage of any

pipe, with negligible risk of unwanted
friction or damage.

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PIG TRAIN APPLICATIONS
pig Chemical pig

Requirement Chemical Benefit

Cleaning / Deoiling Aubin gels and surfactants Greater confidence of cleaning
reduced flushing, less waste
Dewatering/drying Aubin MEG Gel Less energy / less nitrogen
Wax / Asphaltenes Aubin AS02 Targeted wax removal
Carbonate Scale Easi acid Targeted scale removal
Sealing flexibles Aubin AXI-Lokk Quicker FPSO disconnect
Removing trapped TORT Reduced hot tap requirement
hydrocarbons
CASE STUDY –
Heavy Wax and Asphaltene
Deposit Removal Operations

Field Experience
PIGGING SUMMARY

• 6” Co-Flex Pipeline
• Flexible line
• Unpiggable with conventional pig

• 8” Rigid pipelines
• Unpigged for 9 years
• No pig launcher/receiver
• Significant wax deposition
PIPELINE CLEANING COMPONENTS
• EVO-Pig
• Elastomeric pig to deliver discrete volumes of Petrogel DP and
AS-02 solvent

• PETROGEL DP
• Shear thinning cross linked hydrocarbon-based gel. Supplied
as PG2 Base DP and PG2-DX cross linking additive

• AS-02
• High flash point (>70 Deg C) aromatic solvent
8” CARBON STEEL FOCUS

• 3.5m3 AUBIN PETROGEL DP – Collects,

suspends and removes lose solids

• 3.5m3 AUBIN AS-02 and 3.5m3 Hot oil (not

diesel) to loosen and remove organic depositions

• EVO-Pig provides highly efficient interface to

improve cleaning efficiency
PIGGING RESULTS 8” RIGID PIPELINE
• AUBIN Petrogel, EVO-Pig & AS-02 removed significant
quantities of solids and wax
• No blockage occurred despite line contaminants
• Diesel requirement reduced, saving est. $20k – potential to
eliminate
• Liquid production rates increased 600 bpd to 2,486 bpd
• Gas production increased from 2.9 to 4.29 mmscfd
• Pipeline downtime was almost eliminated
• No damage to pipelines
PIGGING RESULTS 8” RIGID PIPELINES
Total chemical quantity introduced into pipeline 10.5 mt
Approximately 42 mt of material was recovered, of which a
considerable amount was determined as solids and wax
THANK YOU

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