{"title":"Performance Characteristics for an Interstitially Insulated Coaxial Pipe Using Wire-Screen Mesh for Deepwater Applications","authors":"E. Marotta, D. Kim, L. Fletcher","doi":"10.2118/111505-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/111505-PA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115997610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why It Is Difficult To Learn Lessons: Insights from Decision Theory and Cognitive Science","authors":"H. Duhon, Janet S. Elias","doi":"10.2118/110211-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/110211-PA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123638282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiphase-flow Modeling Based on Experimental Testing: an Overview of Research Facilities Worldwide and the Need for Future Developments","authors":"G. Falcone, C. Teodoriu, K. Reinicke, O. Bello","doi":"10.2118/110116-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/110116-PA","url":null,"abstract":"Multiphase flow models for the oil and gas industry are required to investigate and understand the co-current or counter-current flow of different fluid phases under a wide range of pressure and temperature conditions and in several different flow configurations. To compliment this theoretical effort, experimental measurements are required to verify multiphase flow models under controlled conditions and assess their range of applicability. This is why there exists a large number of multiphase flow loops around the world. However, there are numerous varieties of multiphase flow occurrences due to differences in pressure and temperature, fluid types, flow regimes, pipe geometry, inclination and diameter, and whether the flow is steady-state or transient. Consider the example of hydrocarbon producing fields in the North Sea. Typical parameters for an oil well in the northern basins are as follows: production rate of 800-1600 cubic meters per day, tubing diameter of 0.102-0.130 meters, reservoir depth of 3000-3500 meters, oil density of 825-930 kilograms per cubic meters, gas-oil-ratio of 100 standard cubic meters per standard cubic meters and water cut up to 90%. For a gas well in the southern gas basin, the typical parameters become: initial production rate of 0.7 to over 2.8 million standard cubic meters per day, tubing diameter of 0.114-0.140 meters, reservoir depth of 2500-3500 meters and initial liquidgas-ratio of less than 1 to over 30 standard cubic meters per million standard cubic meters. The operational pressure at the wellhead may reach up to 10 MPa and reservoir pressures can be as high as 30 MPa. Furthermore, not only do well performance values vary considerably across the world and, they also vary with time for the same field. Building a flow loop that reproduces real hydrocarbon wells, including the reservoir inertia and the complex heat transfer process taking place between the wellbore and the reservoir, is not feasible. Thus, downscaling of typical field parameters is necessary for the study of multiphase flows at laboratory conditions. This paper presents a critical review of multiphase flow loops around the world, highlighting the pros and cons of each facility with regard to reproducing and monitoring different multiphase flow situations. The authors suggest a way forward for new developments in this area.","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122518198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Operating Multiphase Helicoaxial Pumps in Series To Develop a Satellite Oil Field in a Remote Desert Location","authors":"H. Saadawi","doi":"10.2118/109785-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/109785-PA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127313339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. J. Bierman, S. Hinz, D. Justić, D. Scavia, J. Veil, K. Satterlee, M. Parker, J. Wilson
{"title":"Predicted impacts from offshore produced water discharges on hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.","authors":"V. J. Bierman, S. Hinz, D. Justić, D. Scavia, J. Veil, K. Satterlee, M. Parker, J. Wilson","doi":"10.2118/106814-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/106814-PA","url":null,"abstract":"Summer hypoxia (dissolved oxygen < 2 mg/L) in the bottom waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico has received considerable scientific and policy attention because of potential ecological and economic impacts. This hypoxic zone forms off the Louisiana coast each summer and has increased from an average of 8,300 km{sup 2} in 1985-1992 to over 16,000 km{sup 2} in 1993-2001, reaching a record 22,000 km{sup 2} in 2002. The almost threefold increase in nitrogen load from the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) to the Gulf since the middle of the last century is the primary external driver for hypoxia. A goal of the 2001 Federal Action Plan is to reduce the 5-year running average size of the hypoxic zone to below 5,000 km{sup 2} by 2015. After the Action Plan was developed, a new question arose as to whether sources other than the MRB may also contribute significant quantities of oxygen-demanding substances. One very visible potential source is the hundreds of offshore oil and gas platforms located within or near the hypoxic zone, many of which discharge varying volumes of produced water. The objectives of this study were to assess the incremental impacts of produced water discharges on dissolved oxygen inmore » the northern Gulf of Mexico, and to evaluate the significance of these discharges relative to loadings from the MRB. Predictive simulations were conducted with three existing models of Gulf hypoxia using produced water loads from an industry study. Scenarios were designed that addressed loading uncertainties, settleability of suspended constituents, and different assumptions on delivery locations for the produced water loads. Model results correspond to the incremental impacts of produced water loads, relative to the original model results, which included only loads from the MRB. The predicted incremental impacts of produced water loads on dissolved oxygen in the northern Gulf of Mexico from all three models were small. Even considering the predicted ranges between lower- and upper-bound results, these impacts are likely to be within the errors of measurement for bottomwater dissolved oxygen and hypoxic area at the spatial scale of the entire hypoxic zone.« less","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121057888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of High Oil Viscosity on Oil/Gas Flow Behavior in Horizontal Pipes","authors":"B. Gokcal, Qian Wang, Hong-quan Zhang, C. Sarica","doi":"10.2118/102727-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/102727-PA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124251333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Modeling of an Oil and Gas Project Involving Carbon Capture and Storage: Snohvit LNG Field (Barents Sea, Norway)","authors":"Matei Negrescu","doi":"10.2118/107430-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/107430-PA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131197201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giovani Colodette, C. Pereira, C. A. Siqueira, G. Ribeiro, R. Rodrigues, J. S. D. Matos, M. Ribeiro
{"title":"Flow Assurance and Artificial Lift Innovations for Jubarte Heavy Oil in Brazil","authors":"Giovani Colodette, C. Pereira, C. A. Siqueira, G. Ribeiro, R. Rodrigues, J. S. D. Matos, M. Ribeiro","doi":"10.2118/117174-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/117174-PA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117234226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Jablonowski, Chaiyaporn Wiboonkij-arphakul, M. Neuhold
{"title":"Estimating the Cost of Errors in Estimates Used During Concept Selection","authors":"C. Jablonowski, Chaiyaporn Wiboonkij-arphakul, M. Neuhold","doi":"10.2118/110191-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/110191-PA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122831641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizer's Curse: Removing the Effect of this Bias in Portfolio Planning","authors":"J. Schuyler, T. Nieman","doi":"10.2118/107852-PA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2118/107852-PA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":335535,"journal":{"name":"Spe Projects Facilities & Construction","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126015094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}