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    Network Optimization Project (Reliance 2007) : Figure 1: Workflow Initial Stages

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    Flow assurance is making sure the gas / oil / water from the wells makes it to the delivery location. Transporting unprocessed gas streams in production and gathering pipelines is becoming more attractive for new developments. Engineers often face several problems when designing these systems.

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    Network Optimization Project (Reliance 2007)

    Figure 1: Workflow initial stages


    Calculation Flowchart: (Horizontal gas-liquid separator)(L&T 2008-09)
    HYSYS Simulation of Heat and Mass Balance for a project (L&T NQRC 2009)
    Excerpt from a flow assurance report

    What is flow assurance?

    Flow assurance is making sure the gas/oil/water from the wells makes it to the delivery location. The
    transport of unprocessed gas streams in production and gathering pipelines is becoming more attractive
    for new developments, particularly those in less friendly environments such as deep offshore locations.
    Transporting gas, oil, and water together from wells in satellite fields to existing processing facilities
    reduces the investments required for expanding production. However, engineers often face several
    problems when designing these systems. These problems include reduced flow capacity, corrosion,
    emulsion, asphaltene or wax deposition, and hydrate formation. Engineers need a tool to understand how
    the fluids travel together, to quantify the flow reduction in the pipe, and to determine where, how much,
    and what type of liquid that would form in a pipe.

    Why model?

    Flow assurance aspects represent both revenue and cost risks. Any upset in flow from the wells will
    directly impact the volume of product available for sale, and the cost of rectifying a flow problem in deep
    and cold water will represent a formidable cost risk. Increasing the robustness of a system to very high
    levels implies increased equipment costs, which ultimately may make the project uneconomic. Hence, it
    is necessary to strike a satisfactory balance between the capital investment requirement and an acceptable
    level of risk. Flow assurance is a critical issue for concept evaluation, commissioning, safety, security,
    start-up, and post startup phases especially in long distance tieback field developments. Innovative
    technology and flexible well intervention contingency plans and options should operational problems
    arise are the key to addressing flow assurance issues and can influence the cost risks.

    The implementation of transient multiphase modeling will normally provide guidelines to safe operational
    strategy development and in assessments of operational risks. Most deepwater developments include a
    host surface facility with multiple subsea well tiebacks in order to cover the full area extent of the
    reservoir. This host facility commonly only accounts for substantially less than 25% of the total project
    costs; however, if it fails to perform or its operations are adversely impacted all the expensive wells tied
    back to it also are unable to perform. Even if the host facility has dry trees for the initial suite of
    production wells, additional subsea tiebacks in later field life are usually envisaged. The host facility
    design must therefore make adequate provision for the flow assurance and operability requirements of
    subsea tiebacks, both initial and future, i.e., redundancy must be built in. The more redundancy that is
    built in the more complex the facility, and as complexity often translates into high cost some critical
    tradeoff decisions must be made.

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