PR-06Intermediate
Virtual Flow Metering
Estimates each well’s oil, water and gas rate continuously from pressure and temperature, between the physical tests.
Production & Artificial LiftAIDomain
PR-08IntermediateWave 2AIDomain
Flow Assurance Prediction
In one sentence
Predicts where wax, hydrate, scale or slugging will form in the flowline before the line blocks.
The problem
Flowline blockages are handled reactively with chemical squeezes and pigging on a fixed calendar, whether the line needs it or not. The calendar is set by the worst line in the field, so most lines are over-treated and one is still under-treated.
How it works
Thermal-hydraulic modelling along the flowline is combined with fluid composition and ambient conditions to predict wax appearance, hydrate formation envelope and scaling tendency as functions of position and time. Predicted risk drives a condition-based chemical and pigging schedule instead of a calendar.
Data required
- Flowline route, elevation profile, insulation and burial detail
- Inlet and outlet pressure and temperature
- Fluid composition, wax appearance temperature and water chemistry
- Chemical injection rates and pigging history with returns
What you get
- Risk profile along the flowline by mechanism, updated with operating conditions
- Condition-based pigging and chemical injection schedule
- Shutdown cool-down time to hydrate formation for operating procedures
What it cannot do
Predictions depend on laboratory fluid characterisation that many operators have not done recently, or at all, for the current fluid composition. Using a wax appearance temperature measured before water breakthrough produces confident and wrong answers, so the capability requires current fluid analysis as a delivery precondition rather than a nice-to-have.
Every capability page states a real limitation. If a vendor cannot tell you where their product stops, you are not being told the truth about where it starts.
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