Reassessing Operational Strategies for Wax Management Reduces Expenses

This paper presents a case study that is an example of how reassessing a flow-assurance risk-management strategy for operating assets can identify opportunities for optimization. Too often, flow-assurance risks are examined only after problems occur. In the absence of these events, many may assume the flow-assurance risks are managed optimally. Periodic reassessment of the risk-management strategies is a key concept for full life-cycle flow-assurance engineering.

Introduction

Flow-assurance risks for offshore fields can be managed in a variety of ways that can be defined generally into risk-management or risk-avoidance strategies.