Sampath Bukkaraju, P.E.
Engineering Manager | Viking Digital Services
Sampath Bukkaraju is a licensed professional engineering in the state of Texas with over 17 years of experience in the management and execution of deep water, shallow water, and onshore projects in GoM, Permian, South Texas, West Africa, Caribbean Waters, and Offshore Brazil. His areas of expertise include flow assurance, pipeline integrity management, multiphase flow analysis, CFD, and pipeline blockage remediation. He holds a Master's degree in computational engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and currently serves as the WebMaster for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Flow Assurance Technical Section (FTS).
Areas of Expertise:
Steady-state and transient multiphase flow modeling
Pipeline blockage remediation
Concept-select, FEED, and Detailed Flow Assurance Studies
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Pipeline Integrity Management
Project Management
Education:
He holds a Master’s degree in computational engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
This series of two articles discusses the diagnosis, detection and remediation of oil and gas production system blockages in detail. The current issue focuses on blockage characterization and detection.