PIPESIM Flow Assurance

PIPESIM production system analysis software offers the industry’s most comprehensive steady-state flow assurance workflows, both for front-end system design and production operations. Specific flow assurance modeling capabilities include

• erosion prediction for sand-laden fluids
• CO₂-induced corrosion prediction
• emulsion handling
• hydrate prediction including mitigation with inhibitors
• slug characteristics and pigging operations
• wax and asphaltenes prediction
• time-dependent wax deposition
• liquid loading prediction
• detailed heat transfer modeling.

Advantages

• identify and predict flow assurance issues and develop mitigation strategies
• accurately model fluid flow using industry-standard multiphase flow correlations and advanced heat transfer models
• accurately characterize fluid behavior and predict hydrate, wax, and asphaltene formation using a wide variety of black-oil and compositional fluid models
• assess pipeline integrity by predicting rates of erosion and corrosion
• assess the operational risk from wax deposition along flowlines over time
• determine liquid-handling capacities at the processing facility by modeling slug flow and pigging operations
  

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