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Wax Management Strategy Part 2: Wax Deposition Modeling
The objective of this GATEKEEPER is to provide a high-level overview of the model commonly used in the industry to estimate the wax deposition.
Wax Management Strategy Part 3: Design, Development & Maintenance
The design and development of a viable, robust wax management strategy relies upon the economical evaluation of available management techniques.
Wax Management Strategy Part 1: Establishing Initial Wax Risk
Wax management strategies developed during Front End Engineering Design (FEED) can mitigate or perhaps even prevent these costs. The goal of this GATEKEEPER series is to provide high-level insight into the planning, execution, and maintenance of wax management strategies.
Bacterial Monitoring & Remediation In Pipelines
This GATEKEEPER discusses the various bacteria testing options that are available, which can be used to validate MPN results, as well as the mitigation and remediation techniques that can be used to decrease the probability or severity of MIC to pipeline infrastructure.
Evaluating Scaling Risks – What Is The Big Picture?
This GATEKEEPER provides an overview of the decisions which are the truly important outcomes from this process, and outlines the risks we incur by setting our scale management and associated field design philosophies early in the life of a project.
Functionality Testing Of Production Chemicals For Deepwater
This GATEKEEPER will discuss the key physical and chemical characteristics of each production chemical that must be evaluated prior to use in a subsea production system.
H2S Scavenging: Amine Systems
The amine selected, as well as the concentration of the solution used, will result in different selectivity of H2S over CO2, mole-to-mole acid gas loading, and degradation of the amine.
H2S Scavenging: Using Triazine
This GATEKEEPER will discuss the use of triazine as a liquid H2S scavenger.
Corrosion Modeling: Comparison, Interpretation & Limitation
Corrosion modeling is a vital tool in the pre-Front End Engineering Design (pre-FEED), FEED, and operational stages of the life of pipeline and equipment systems.
Slugging Management
Proper sizing of the flowlines and risers coupled with optimal choking and gas-lift will greatly reduce the risk of slugging and help in efficient management of slugs throughout the life of the field.
Paraffin Wax: Formation, Mitigation Methods & Remediation Techniques
Paraffin precipitation and deposition in flowlines and pipelines is an issue impacting the development of deepwater subsea hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Bacteria Testing: Genetic Methods
While one test cannot give comprehensive results, a combination of testing including genetic testing will be able to provide a more reliable and complete picture of the bacteria in the system than the use of MPN alone.
Subsea Chemical Cleanliness Specifications
This article compares the common approaches to specifying chemical cleanliness and subsequently presents high-level guidance that can be used to select appropriate quality control criteria for those chemicals deployed through long-distance umbilicals to subsea and sub-surface injection locations
Revised Gulf Of Mexico Produced Water Discharge Requirements
The objective of this article is to summarize the main requirements of the permit, identify changes from the previous permit, and call out edits between the draft and final issue of the permit as these pertain to the discharge of produced waters and other treated waters from offshore production and water injection facilities.
Axial Mixing In Pipe Displacement
It is frequently necessary to displace the contents of a pipeline or umbilical tube (fluid B) with another fluid (fluid A). If we don’t use a pig to separate the liquids, there will be mixing at the interface (axial mixing). The mixing zone requires us to overflush the line to effectively remove fluid B from the line.
Asphaltenes: Deposition & Testing Technical Articles
Asphaltenes are large, complex organic components present in the oil phase, along with resins, aromatic hydrocarbons, and alkanes (saturated hydrocarbons). Resins play an important role in stabilizing asphaltenes in crude oil. When the resins get destabilized, (under unfavorable pressure-temperature conditions) asphaltenes can agglomerate and deposit.
Water Soluble Organics: Definitions & Removal Methods
These work effectively on dispersed, O&G; however, these systems do not effectively remove water soluble organics (WSOs). Where WSOs exist in concentrations greater than 29 mg/l, conventional produced water treating systems cannot achieve GoM overboard discharge limits.
Methanol In Produced Water Discharge
Methanol (MeOH) is widely used in multiple applications in the offshore oil and gas industry.
Hydrates: Prediction, Mitigation & Remediation Techniques
In subsea oil production systems, hydrate mitigation methods during steady state operation are almost always based around heat conservation.