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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.

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.  

1145
  1. 75 mins
1300
  1. 90 mins

    Chairs: James Outlaw, Baker Hughes; Ravi Gudimetla     

    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.       

1430
  1. 30 mins
1500
  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.

1630
  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.

0930
  1. 30 mins
1000
  1. 90 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.

1130
  1. 75 mins
1245
  1. 90 mins

    Chairs: 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 that don’t have the stigma of oil and gas regarding environmental concerns. Panelists from Academia, Operators and Contractors will join in an open discussion about this issue and how they are approaching it.

1415
  1. 15 mins
1430
  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.

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