Flow assurance

This paper presents a survey of air/water and air/water/sand flow through circular and triangular pipes to study potential effects of triangular pipe geometry.

The authors of this paper discuss a robust omniphobic surface treatment material shown to significantly reduce the adhesion of flow-assurance solids.

This paper presents software used to understand how foams can alleviate slugging in pipelines.

The authors of this paper describe a study of magnesian calcite particles forming hard, inhibitor-resistant calcium-carbonate-like deposits and potential mitigation measures.

Flow assurance effects from slugging and various types of solids deposition during engineering, design, maintenance, and operations still create challenging technical issues needing safe, economical solutions. The recurring long-term mitigation of flow assurance phenomena such as the deposition of wax, erosion, asphaltenes, corrosion, and salt, still demands attention…

Aramco investigates expanding the use of lasers in the upstream sector of the oil field.

This case study demonstrates an estimated cost savings of AICD completions in six wells of more than $20 million in capital and operating expenses compared with a more conventional sliding side door completion to manage gas breakthrough.

This paper is the second of a two-part series. It covers facilities problems caused by iron, injectivity problems caused by iron, and the mitigation of colloidal iron-related problems.

The difficulty in selling a chemical to aid subsea pipeline flow has been delivering it to the wells.

An integrated multidisciplinary work flow can improve the assessment of pipeline slugging fatigue for offshore field developments.