Spill Response & Source Control
Coupling Flow Assurance with our expertise in critical well engineering have merged to become the Well Flow Engineering Team. The Well Flow Engineering Team has a track record in supporting operators in oil spill drills, and offers a standalone, fit-for-purpose solution. This partnership provides seamless engineering support, which results in efficient, more effective planning and execution of source control and oil spill response activities.
The Well Flow Engineering Team uses the most advanced and proven Well Integrity and Well Risk Management tools to provide the most realistic scenarios that allow operators to delineate the optimum strategies for source control and fluid discharge mitigation.
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Through recognizing our clients’ needs, our engineering expertise, and our proprietary in-house GATE Prho™ software engine, we provide customizable, cost-effective, easy-to use software tools to deliver better client outcomes quicker.
This course will cover: Single-phase flow fundamentals, application examples in oil and gas industry, how to perform calculations, and modeling best practices.
This course contains application examples of single-phase fluid flow in oil and gas industry and step-by-step modeling.
This online course gives an overview of multiphase flow, how multiphase flow is different from two phase flow, the importance of understanding multiphase flow and the factors that influence multiphase flow.
This article will outline the challenges during integrity management, and the best practices that ultimately deliver a coordinated, effective, and cost-optimized IM plan.
This GATEKEEPER article focuses on the prediction, prevention and remediation of liquid loading, including discussion of liquid loading analysis.
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.
The design and development of a viable, robust wax management strategy relies upon the economical evaluation of available management techniques.
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.
One of the primary flow assurance challenges in the production of hydrocarbons is the prevention of pipeline blockages.
As new industry challenges arise, a new approach to multiphase analysis called Computational Multiphase Fluid Dynamics (CMFD) has appeared as a possible solution.
This GATEKEEPER will discuss the basic factors influencing corrosion modeling, while a later installment will elaborate on the different corrosion models available and their respective advantages and limitations.
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 precipitation and deposition in flowlines and pipelines is an issue impacting the development of deepwater subsea hydrocarbon reservoirs.
In this paper, the most commonly used In-Line Inspection (ILI) techniques, methodology and limitations applicable to detecting metal loss and wall thickness measurements are presented.
This paper is the first part of a two part series and presents an overview of pig selection criteria for cleaning and maintenance of the pipelines, and covers high level guidance on establishing a progressive pigging strategy.
In subsea oil production systems, hydrate mitigation methods during steady state operation are almost always based around heat conservation.
CO2 corrosion modeling is a common practice to evaluate carbon steel flowlines and piping, both with and without inhibition, to ensure they achieve their intended design life. Modeling is also used to help determine if a corrosion resistant alloy should be used and can also be utilized to determine corrosion allowance and inhibition requirements.
At Viking, we take Flow Assurance modeling to operations by using a systems engineering standpoint addressing the challenges from modeling to development of operational strategies to optimize the production system.
Scalable to turnkey pipeline blockage remediation using our systems engineering approach.
Nodal Analysis, Artificial Lift Modeling, Model Based Optimization, Pressure & Rate Transient Analysis (PTA, RTA), Decline Curve Analysis
Life extension is a comprehensive review of a facility or vessel to determine if improvements are required, and what is needed to extend the operational life.
Viking utilizes provides water injection modeling services including integrated flow modeling, souring and scaling modeling and water injection performance modeling.
Viking’s Chemical Systems team determines what issues may cause an existing chemical system to not perform to the operators’ desired specifications and will deliver a course of action designed to mitigate these issues to ensure best performance.
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.