Agenda

In the current environment of intense scrutiny on capital efficiency, this session focuses on subsea system design to optimize capital expenditures around acceptable risk. Presentations will focus on addressing known flow assurance issues and providing operations flexibility rather than building a system designed for all worst-case conditions.  Topics may include approaches to insulation, chemical treatment, equipment reliability, and other approaches to risk management by challenging levels of conservatism based on lessons learned from recent project execution and operations.

While advances in technology enable the Industry to move towards cost-efficient designs, they also redefine how we manage Flow Assurance challenges. This session will provide an overview of novel technologies deployed or proposed to remediate operational Flow Assurance issues such as wax, hydrate, asphaltene, and scale. 

Production systems, especially offshore, require various chemicals and fluids to ensure sustainable and profitable production. In many cases, such fluids and their seamless injection is critical to keeping the field producing. This session focusses on novel ideas and enhancements in the field of oilfield production chemicals and injection systems, ensuring their optimum and reliable delivery to the intended locations.

While flow assurance engineers aim for best practices in operations and design they are not always achieved or, when implemented, work out as expected.  This session focuses on re-examining best practices where operators have had to address unforeseen issues while dealing with typical flow assurance challenges (wax management, hydrate mitigation, scaling, etc), especially around missing or erroneous design data.

This session will explore methods to predict and detect asphaltenes in field for current or future developments.  This may include physical tests or predictive methods like equations of state.  Furthermore, once asphaltenes are deemed problematic, what tests can be used for inhibitor selection and field performance. Near-wellbore deposition and remediation (due to water/gas injection in reservoir for improved recovery) is also in scope.

Use of Real Time Systems (RTS) and transformation of data into actionable intelligence promises potential uplift, increased uptime, and improved risk management. This session will explore the applications of RTS and data analytics to improve operations and production volumes. 

With a focus on Energy transition, GHG and high CO2 system management is key. This session will explore the challenges associated with collection, purification, and transportation of CO2 as well as the critical need to understand the system phase behavior. 

Science and technology combined with new business models are developing at an extraordinarily rapid pace today.  Examples include venture capitalists, start-up companies, material science, artificial intelligence, digitallization, 3D printing, energy transition, robotics just to name a few.  What will flow assurance management look like in the future and  how to "think outside the box" to efficientlly adopt the advancements in other industries? This session is planned with a key note speaker followed by a panel discussion.