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Fundamentals of Flow Assurance Training
Course overview
To satisfy the world’s ever increasing demand for energy, Oil and Gas companies continue to develop and extract reserves in more and more hostile environments from deep water to the Arctic. As conventional oil reserves decline, companies are developing unconventional fields with complex fluid properties. All these factors mean that flow assurance plays an increasingly important role in the industry and employers are frequently seeking skilled engineers in this field. This one-week introductory course covers all aspect of flow assurance for the oil and gas industry, but with relevance to all industries with fluid flow related issues such as nuclear and process industries
Course Objectives
On successful completion of the module the delegate will be able to:
- Gain a systematic understanding of the concept of flow assurance.
- Apply competently the fundamental principles of multiphase flow and production chemistry to analyse typical flow assurance systems.
- Design for basic flow assurance and operability.
Course Topics
- The Flow Assurance Environment: What is flow assurance? Introduction to the flow assurance environment, multiphase flow hydraulics and production chemistry.
- Multiphase flow hydraulics: Steady state flow regimes, pressure and temperature prediction. Network and nodal analysis. Physical properties. Oil and gas pipeline design. Transient flows. Pipeline operations and pigging. Thermal management. Separation and boosting systems. Multiphase flow metering.
- Production chemistry: Fluid sampling and PVT analysis. Deposition and management of hydrates, wax and rheology, scale, asphaltines and napthanates.
Who Should Attend?
The course will be of particular interest to engineers in oil and gas exploration, production and operating companies, consultants, contractors, service providers and equipment suppliers involved in design and operation.
The Flow Assurance course will be useful for those who want a background in this area such as researchers or managers who wish to understand the technical issues to aid decision making.
Course Delivery
The course will consist of lectures supported by videos, worked examples, case studies as well as design software demonstrations and laboratory sessions. All delegates will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course. The course is delivered by the Process Systems Engineering Group who are renowned for their industrial scale research facilities. The Group has substantial funded research programmes in the areas of energy, oil and gas transportation and process engineering. It houses the largest three phase (air, oil and water) facilities in the UK. It also has a range of risers and flow loops. These fully automated facilities will be available during the short course for demonstrations of multiphase flow regimes, slug control to particulate transport.
Speaker
After his PhD, Prof Yeung worked for a number of years in the gas turbine industry as a design engineer. He then joined BHRA, a contract research association involved in many aspects of fluid engineering issues ranging from fluid structure interaction, water network design and optimisation to knowledge based systems for design and selection. Prior to joining Cranfield he spent two years with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he instigated research activities in fluid engineering. His wide research interests range from ancient civilisation engineering hydraulics to multiphase flows related to oil and gas production and transportation, flow measurement, pumping systems and control. He serves on a number of research council review panels, technical journal editorial board and standard committees.
Flow Assurance Training Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.
Flow Assurance Training Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, India, Ghana and Nigeria is also available.
