Last updated: 2025-11-20
Flow Assurance Modeling - Part 1
- 100 Lectures
- 10 Hours
- All Levels
Ensuring continuous and efficient flow of hydrocarbons through production systems.
- Day 1:
- Fundamentals of multiphase flow
- Fundamentals of heat transfer in production system
- Introduction to reservoir fluids and PVT
- How transient simulation handles the phase behavior and properties of reservoir fluids
- Look-up Tables
- Black Oil
- Compositional
- Day 2:
- Pipeline modeling approaches
- Correlations Vs. mechanistic models
- Steady-state Vs. transient dynamic models
- Introduction to a transient modelling software
- Exercise: set up a simulation case
- Exercise: build simple pipeline
- Exercise: define heat transfer
- Exercise: add output variable
- Exercise: run the simulation and view results
- Day 3:
- Flow assurance issues in production system
- Preliminary pipeline design
- Exercise: set up parametric study
- Exercise: determine pipeline size
- Exercise: determine insulation thickness
- Terrain and hydrodynamic slugging
- Exercise: prepare a more detailed simulation model
- Exercise: investigate terrain slugging
- Exercise: mitigate terrain slugging by topside choking and gas lifting
- Exercise: study hydrodynamic slugging
- Exercise: calculate surge volume using transient simulation
- Exercise: calculate surge volume using spreadsheet
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