Petroskills Training On Flow Assurance

Flow Assurance for Offshore
Production - FAOP
Discipline: Production and Completions Engineering
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 5 days
Instructor(s): Phillip Notz
Flow assurance is a critical component in the design and operation of offshore production
facilities. This is particularly true as the industry goes to deeper water, longer tiebacks,
deeper wells, and higher temperature and pressure reservoirs. Although gas hydrate
issues dominate the thermohydraulic design, waxes, asphaltenes, emulsions, scale,
corrosion, erosion, solids transport, slugging, and operability are all important issues
which require considerable effort. The participant will be presented with sufficient
theory/correlation information to be able to understand the basis for the applications.
This intensive five-day course has considerable time devoted to application and design
exercises to ensure the practical applications are learned. One personal computer is
provided, at additional cost, for each two participants.
"Interactive - good discussion through problems and explanation of theory for practical
solutions. " - Project Engineer, Australia
"Good visual aids. Questions well answered. Very helpful and informative spreadsheets
provided." - Design Engineer, United Kingdom
Designed For:
Engineers, operators, and technical managers who are responsible for offshore
completions, production, and development; technical staff needing a foundation in
principals, challenges, and solutions for offshore flow assurance. The course is also
appropriate for persons involved in produced fluids flow in onshore production
operations.
You Will Learn:
How To:
Identify the components of a complete flow assurance study and understand how they
relate to the production system design and operation
Interpret and use sampling and laboratory testing results of reservoir fluids relative to
flow assurance
Understand the basic properties of reservoir fluids and how they are modeled for the
production flowline system
Understand the thermohydraulic modeling of steady state and transient multiphase
flow in offshore production systems
Evaluate and compare mitigation and remediation techniques for: gas hydrates,
paraffin (waxes), asphaltenes, emulsions, scale, corrosion, erosion and solids
transport, and slugging
Understand the elements of an operability report for subsea production facilities,
flowlines, and export flowlines
Course Content:
Overview of flow assurance
PVT analysis and fluid properties
Steady state and transient multiphase flow modeling
Hydrate, paraffin, and asphaltene control
Basics of scale, corrosion, erosion, and sand control
Fluid property and phase behavior modeling
Equations of state
Fugacity and equilibrium
Viscosities of oils
Thermal modeling
Multiphase pressure boosting
Slugging: hydrodynamic, terrain induced, and ramp up
Commissioning, start-up, and shutdown operations
Instructors:
DR. PHIL NOTZ is an offshore industry consultant for flow assurance issues. He worked as
a chemical engineer for DuPont from 1968 to 1971, a research scientist and reservoir
engineer for Getty Oil Company/Texaco/Chevron from 1978 to 2002. He worked for
offshore engineering and construction firms, Doris Inc. (2002-2004) and Technip USA
(2004-2008) as flow assurance manager. While at Getty/Texaco, Dr. Notz taught courses
in surfactant polymer flooding, reservoir engineering, carbon dioxide flooding, reservoir
fluid properties and flow assurance to operations in the US, UK, Ecuador and Saudi
Arabia. He was Texaco's representative on the GPA research committee, the Colorado
School of Mines Gas Hydrates Consortium and the DeepStar Flow Assurance Committee.
Dr. Notz has a BS from the University of Wisconsin in Chemistry (Chemical Engineering
minor) and a PhD from Michigan State University in Analytical Chemistry.
In-House Course Presentations

All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house
courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your
requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be
arranged specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-
House Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com
Public Course Presentations

How to contact PetroSkills:
1-800-821-5933 toll-free in North America or
Telephone 1-918-828-2500
Facsimile 1-918-828-2580
E-Mail registrations@petroskills.com
Internet www.petroskills.com
Address P.O. Box 35448, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153-0448, U.S.A
AVAILABLE SESSIONSInterested in an in-house session?
13 Apr, 2020 17 Apr, 2020 Dr. Phillip K. Notz Houston $4,510 REGISTER
18 May, 2020 22 May, 2020 Dr. Phillip K. Notz London $5,235 REGISTER
8 Jun, 2020 12 Jun, 2020 Dr. Phillip K. Notz Calgary $4,455 REGISTER
17 Aug, 2020 21 Aug, 2020 Dr. Phillip K. Notz Aberdeen $5,235 REGISTER
30 Nov, 2020 4 Dec, 2020 Dr. Phillip K. Notz Kuala Lumpur $5,425 REGISTER
7 Dec, 2020 11 Dec, 2020 Dr. Phillip K. Notz Perth $5,445 REGISTER

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