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Jim Collins

Peer Review Editor Oil and Gas Facilities
  • This month's papers cover development choices for an offshore field, cost-estimating errors when planning compressor stations, and the engineering aspects of smart fields.
  • The papers in this month's issue describe an optimization method for long-distance gas-transmission pipelines, a potential solution to handle produced water from subsea wells. the driving forces in paraffin deposition, and a novel method to verify leaks in a sulfur-recovery unit condenser.
  • Papers this month cover numerical modeling of a horizontal pipe separator, stress fatigue cracking in pipelines due to accoustic vibration, application of traffic design to pipeline systems, and optimization of separator operating pressures.
  • This month's papers cover a new method to evaluate the design pressure of flowlines and risers, pipeline integrity assessment, treatment and removal of sand from pipelines, and considerations around the in-situ burning of oil on water.
  • The papers in this month's issue describe a method for optimizing separator design, impact of other chemicals on effectiveness of scale inhibitors, impact of ice movement on trenched pipelines, and use of gelled fluid to remove debris in pipelines.
  • Papers in this month's issue include a modeling methodology for integrity maintenance of pipelines, the need to include viscosity changes in transient modeling calculations and the use of computational fluid dynamics to evaluate a production separator in the North Sea.
  • The papers in this month's issue address challenges of dissolved iron in produced water from the Marcellus shale, how gas composition may affect corrosion, and modeling of hydrate formation in offshore oil-dominated systems.
  • The three papers in this issue address safe design of facilities, use of the chemical acrolein in an offshore environment, and the integration of reservoir and pipeline modeling to capture the variations in reservoir-flow dynamics with changes in the surface-network operating conditions.
  • This month's papers address one of the effects of an alkaline-surfactant-polymer flood on changes to the emulsion rheology, the conservation of flared associated gas from two onshore Tunisian fields despite high H2S and CO2 content, and minimizing HSE impacts for pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
  • The papers offered this month cover industry's track record in the delivery of meagaprojects, use of polymer for enhanced recovery offshore, and design of a tank overflow program for protection of health and the environment.
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