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SPE/AIChE Workshop: Flow Assurance Best Practices for Today, Challenges for the Future
9–10 October 2024 | San Luis Resort | Galveston Texas

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SPE/AIChE Workshop: Flow Assurance Best Practices for Today, Challenges for the Future
9–10 October 2024 | San Luis Resort | Galveston Texas

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0800
  1. 15 mins
0815
  1. 90 mins

    Chairs: Subash Jayawardena, Shell; Scott Hickman, ExxonMobil  

    In the current environment of intense scrutiny on capital and operational costs and more challenging reservoirs/fluids, this session focuses on subsea system design and operation to optimize expenditures and provide 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 system configuration, insulation, chemical treatment, operational procedures, and other approaches to risk management by challenging levels of conservatism based on lessons learned from recent projects and operational experiences.

    Presentation 1: Autonomous Optimization of Corrosion and Scale Inhibiting Chemicals in ESPs
    Mike Van Spankeren, SLB  

    Presentation 2: Asphaltene Inhibitor Trials at Tahiti Field 
    Ivan Mantilla, CVX   

    Presentation 3: Real Time Optimization using Physics Informed AI        
    Lee Johnson, GEMINUS AI 

0945
  1. 30 mins
1015
  1. 90 mins

    Chairs: Carolyn Koh, Coloardo School of Mines; Khalid Mateen, Total Energies           

    State-of-the-art technological advances for cost-efficient designs and intervention/remediation strategies are critical for safe and effective flow assurance management. This session will include presentations on novel technologies and field cases deployed to remediate operational flow assurance issues, including hydrate, wax, asphaltene, and scale.  

    Presentation 1: Subsea Automated Pig Launcher – Subsea Pigging Technology Enabling Paraffin Management          
    Khalid Mateen, TotalEnergies         

    Presentation 2: The Hydrate Conflict: Learnings from the Field  
    Doug Turner, ExxonMobil   

    Presentation 3: Remediation Adaptive Ways of Tacking Asphaltene Deposition Challenges  
    Abhishek Punase, Clariant 

1145
  1. 75 mins
1300
  1. 120 mins

    Chairs: James Outlaw, Baker Hughes; Ravi Gudimetla, Woodside Energy     

    Deployment of chemicals, solvent and other fluids is critical for operators to ensure and maintain profitable operation. The session focuses on sharing novel ideas and advancement in the field of oilfield production chemicals and injection systems that would ensure optimum and reliable delivery of production chemicals to the intended locations.

    Presentation 1: Simultaneous Assessment of Corrosion and Asphaltene Deposition
    Doris Gonzalez, bp  

    Presentation 2: Tools, Traps and Tricks – Deepwater Operations Discussion   
    Casey Blake, Shell 

    Presentation 3: Subsea Chemical Storage and Injection – Creating Value with Modularity and Flexibility      
    Vincent Bouzard, Subsea 7    

    Presentation 4: Product Qualification for Subsea Chemical Injection Systems 
    David Fouchard, ChampionX       

1500
  1. 30 mins
1530
  1. 90 mins

    Chairs: Priyanka Juyal, ChampionX; Suyu Ye, Equinor      

    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 (hydrate, wax, asphaltene, scale, etc), especially around missing or erroneous design data.

    Presentation 1: Asphaltene Prediction and Applications           
    Mohammad Tavakkoli, Ennova

    Presentation 2: A Flow Assurance Journey from Stampede         
    Nan Zhang and Emeka Anyanwu, Hess    

    Presentation 3: GOM Production Experience          
    Hannah Bolingbroke, Oxy

1700
  1. 60 mins
0700
  1. 60 mins
0800
  1. 90 mins

    Chairs: Mujgan Guner, SLB; Yogesh Kapoor, Oxy 

    Effective data surveillance is crucial not only for monitoring but also for leveraging predictive models to capitalize on opportunities, ensuring real-time oversight of flow assurance, production challenges, and facilitating quick decision making responses for optimal efficiency. This session will delve into how surveillance and predictive modeling in real-time systems can significantly enhance operational efficiency and increase production volumes.

    Presentation 1: Flow Assurance Surveillance for Deepwater Production Optimization
    Presenter: Kevin Wade, ExxonMobil    

    Presentation 2: Digital Flow Assurance
    Presenter: Cedric Chidiac, SLB

    Presentation 3: Realtime Asphaltene Surveillance 
    Presenter: John Lovell, Microsilicon

0930
  1. 30 mins
1000
  1. 120 mins

    Chairs: Anupam Tagore, Technip FMC; Andrew Yen, Baker Hughes  

    Based on increasing demand for energy, unconventional sources for Oil and Gas have been explored. This session will focus on the primary flow assurance issues faced during unconventional production including but not limited to tight oil, shale production and oil sands. Presentations will discuss best practices and approaches to address unforeseen flow assurance challenges such as chemical treatment for asphaltenes, H2S, viscosity, scaling, wax, etc. and risk management for safe operations in unconventional fields.

    Presentation 1: Decision-making with Flow Assurance Studies – Examples from the Delaware Basin     
    Nicolas Gomez Bustamante, Oxy  

    Presentation 2: Iron Sulfide Mitigation and Multiple-functional Chemistries
    Johnathon Brooks, Baker Hughes

    Presentation 3: Flow Assurance Experiences with Unconventional Production
    Yaqin Wu, ConocoPhillips  

    Presentation 4: Challenges of Paraffin Deposition and Chemical Treatment in Shale oils Produced with ESP or Gas Lift      
    Justin Kuzniarek, Jacam Catalyst 

1200
  1. 75 mins
1315
  1. 90 mins

    Moderators: Cem Sarica, University of Tulsa; Oris Hernandez, BP  

    Finding and developing high quality flow assurance professionals, who have always been considered a scarce resource, is not easy. It is becoming even more challenging in the current environment where talent competition extends to other industries. Panelists from Academia, Operators and Contractors will join in an open discussion about this issue and how they are approaching it.

    Panelists:      
    Mack Shippen, SlipStream 
    Wade Schoppa, Shell     
    Dileep Penmetsa, Wood
    Cem Sarica, University of Tulsa     
    Oris Hernandez, BP 

1445
  1. 30 mins
1515
  1. 90 mins

    Chairs: Yao Wang, SLB; Douglas Estanga, Chevron

    To enable low-carbon solutions in today's world of energy transition, ensuring safe and efficient CO2 transportation is a key part of carbon capture and storage projects. This session will explore operational and design challenges for the CO2 cycle. The emphasis will be on design regulation, phase behavior, and flow modeling.

    Presentation 1: CO2 Vapor Collapse Risk and Potential Impacts to Injection Wells      
    Renato Coutinho, ExxonMobil       

    Presentation 2: Phase Behaviour and CO2 Quality Specifications          
    Antonin Chapoy, Heriot Watt          

    Presentation 3: CO2 Transportation Challenges and Best Simulation Practices in Flow Assurance Studies  
    Julia Borovik, SLB   

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