Flow Assurance - Managing Flow Dynamics and Production Chemistry

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Disciplines: Projects, Facilities, and Construction

Course Description

This intensive one-day course provides a comprehensive understanding of flow assurance principles, challenges, and solutions. Participants will learn about advanced technologies, industry-proven workflows, and practical strategies for identifying, characterizing, and managing key flow impediments such as slugging, hydrate formation, and solid deposition.

Through in-depth case studies from diverse global operations, attendees will gain practical insights into addressing complex flow assurance challenges.
 

Course Outline:

•    Introduce key impediments to flow, including slugging and precipitation of organic and inorganic solids, with examples from various challenging environments.
•    Review technologies for capturing fluid samples and characterizing their PVT properties.
•    Define current measurement and modeling approaches for characterizing production-chemistry impediments, such as asphaltenes, paraffin waxes, hydrates, and inorganic scales.
•    Introduce fluid flow and heat transfer concepts and their relationship in precipitation of organic and inorganic solids.
•    Demonstrate the value of a systematic and holistic flow assurance program for production systems and operations, using case studies from various field locations around the globe.

Learning Level

Intermediate

Course Length

1 Day

Why Attend

Assuring unimpeded flow from the reservoir to the refinery has a game-changing impact on field development.  Unnecessary investments can be avoided when engineers are able to characterize and understand the fluid phase behavior controlled by the flow dynamics and production chemistry in wellbores and flow lines.

Who Attends

This course is intended for engineers and chemists in the upstream and downstream segments of the petroleum industry. This course will also provide department, asset, and technology managers with an appreciation of the risks, challenges and solutions for free-flowing hydrocarbon products. 

Special Requirements

A basic understanding of the petroleum production engineering, chemistry, and project management.

CEUs

0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this 1-day course.

Additional Resources

This course has supplemental books located in our SPE Bookstore entitled Applied Multiphase Flow in Pipes and Flow Assurance - Oil ad Gas Production and Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wellbores, Second Edition (Print and Adobe Digital Edition Set). Please check out these valuable resources!

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.

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