Flow Assurance in Pipelines: A Reference Guide is a comprehensive resource that delivers applied modeling and management engineering approaches that are supported by a helpful appendix of today's computer software programs for practical application. Many environmental factors and solutions are offered, including produced water disposal, GHG emissions at plants, and commissioning issues during dewatering operations. Supported by impactful flow charts and practical case studies, this book gives pipeline engineers a resource for sustainable and more advanced operations.
Table of Contents
Part I Fundamentals 1. Pipeline Transportation of Hydrocarbons 2. PVT and Phase Behavior of Petroleum Fluids 3. Hydrocarbon Flow 4. Flow Assurance Concept Part II Fluid Related Risks 5. Hydrates 6. Petroleum Waxes 7. Asphaltene 8. Scale 9. Naphthenates and Carboxylates Part III Flow Related Risks 10. Flow Stability 11. Flow Integrity 12. Flow Deliverability 13. Pipeline Operations Guidelines 14. Flow Assurance Simulation Studies Appendix A Critical Properties Estimation Methods Appendix B. Goossens Correlation for Molecular Weight Measurement Appendix C. Acentric Factor Estimation Methods Appendix D. PNA Based Estimation Methods Appendix E. Splitting Schemes Appendix F. Whitson Lumping Scheme Appendix G. Flow Assurance Software Tools
Authors
Saeid Mokhatab Gas Processing Consultant, Canada. Saeid Mokhatab is recognized globally as a process technology expert in the fields of natural gas processing and LNG. For over two decades, he has been actively involved in different aspects of several large-scale gas processing and LNG projects, from conceptual design through plant startup and operations support. He has contributed to the understanding of gas processing & LNG knowledge, practices, and technologies through 300 technical papers and 3 reference books (published by Elsevier in the US), which are widely read and highly respected. He founded the Elsevier peer-reviewed Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering and has served on the editorial/advisory boards of leading professional publications pertaining to gas processing and LNG. He has also been an active member of several professional societies, including the SPE and GPA Europe, and has served on the technical program/advisory committee of many acclaimed gas processing conferences worldwide. As a result of his outstanding work in the natural gas industry, he has received a number of international awards and medals and has been listed in highly prestigious biographical directories. Juan Manzano-Ruiz PetroConsulting and Associates, TX, USA. Dr. Juan J. Manzano-Ruiz has extensive international oil & gas field development experience over the past 40 years in shallow, deepwater and onshore Flow Assurance (FA), as a technical team lead, project manager, asset manager and R&D technical contributor. He is currently President of PetroConsulting and Associates, LLC. He was previously Manager of Flow Assurance for Bechtel and Technip. Juan earned a PHD in mechanical engineering, an MBA, a Master's in mechanical engineering, and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, all from MIT. Juan is also a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. Antonin Chapoy Professorial Fellow, Heriot-Watt University, UK. Professor Antonin Chapoy is a Professorial Fellow at Heriot-Watt University, UK. Following completion of his PhD in Chemical Engineering (Paris School of Mines, France, 2004), he joined the Centre for Gas Hydrate Research (now the Hydrates, Flow Assurance & Phase Equilibria Research Group-HFAPE) at Heriot-Watt. He has over 20 years research experience of gas hydrate, hydrocarbon phase behaviourand thermodynamics, and has managed a wide range of projects, predominately sponsored by industry. He is first or coauthor on over 200 refereed journals and conference publications primarily concerning gas hydrates, flow assurance, transport properties and water-hydrocarbon phase behaviour. Professor Chapoy is also an Associate Fellow with the Centre of Thermodynamics of Processes of Mines ParisTech. Jonathan J. Wylde Technical Director, SPL, Houston, TX, USA.
Dr. Jonathan Wylde serves as the Technical Director at SPL in Houston, TX, USA, where he oversees the technical decision making and recommendations made by the flow assurance testing and engineering consultancy team, serving as the in-house subject matter expert for production chemistry. Prior to this, he spent 20 years at Clariant Oil and Mining Services, TX, USA, latterly as the Global Head of Innovation where he was responsible for global application development and innovation. Since joining Clariant in 2002 as a senior development chemist, he successfully contributed to innovation and development advancement across multiple Clariant Oil and Mining Services channels, including technical, operational, sales and business development.
Jonathan obtained a BSc (Hons) in Geology and a PhD in Physical Chemistry, both from the University of Bristol, UK. Over the past two decades, he has been extensively published in the peer reviewed literature, conference proceedings, book chapters, and patents across a wide range of production chemistry topics, many of which have been highly cited by the industry and academia. Dr. Wylde's publication record of over 225 separate articles as well as activities with Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, has earned him an Honorary Associate Professorship. He is a member in good standing of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for over 20 years and has served on its technical and program committees for the International Scale Conference, Oilfield Chemical Symposium, and Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE); and currently serves as an Associate Editor for SPE Production & Operations Journal and as a Technical Editor for SPE JPT and the SPE Journal.
