Flow assurance
In today’s era of asset management, digital twins are changing risk management, optimizing operations, and benefitting the bottom line.
This study contributes to enhancing the understanding of scale-inhibitor retention in rock formations.
This paper describes a case history in the UAE in which the cleanout of scale contaminated with naturally occurring radioactive material was conducted successfully.
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In the wake of the falling number of exploratory wells in the country, Brazil-owned Petrobras addressed audience concerns as well as outlined new avenues for production at the Offshore Technology Conference. -
The authors of this paper describe a project to develop a virtual sensor to monitor the cooling effect downstream of a subsea choke to avoid hydrate plugs during cold-start operations.
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Subject-matter experts from industry and academia advanced distributed fiber-optic sensing technologies and their implementation in flow measurement during a special session.
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This paper reports the observation of stealth asphaltenes, a potential flow-assurance issue, by means of experimental analysis.
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This year’s Flow Assurance Technology Focus provides a trio of papers concerning the use of advanced techniques in detection, mitigation, and risk calculation
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This study investigates hydrate formation in a water-alternating-gas injection well under water-to-gas and gas-to-water changeover operations.
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This paper describes the suite of cloud-based digital twin tools that the operator has developed and is integrating into its operations, providing online, real-time calculation of scale risk and deployed barrier health to manage risk on a well-by-well basis.
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Machine learning and a decade of gas composition records helped the operator identify wells that were most likely to produce paraffins.
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This study proposes graphene nanoplatelets as a preflush system to extend the lifetime of a conventional scale-inhibitor squeeze treatment.
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The paper details subsea system development for the Mero field and how operation of Mero’s early production system influenced the final configuration for all Mero projects.
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