Flow Assurance with OLGA (PFA-010a)

This course is intended to turn the beginner into an OLGA user, capable of executing realistic flow assurance tasks. A mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises help you understand flow assurance challenges, the fundamentals of multiphase pipeline thermo-hydraulics, and how to apply OLGA in realistic flow assurance issues. The course is useful for the beginning to intermediate OLGA user, the prospective OLGA licensee and the capabilities of multiphase transient simulations.

Our experienced instructors focus on how you can turn your data into a good and effective OLGA model, and how you should perform your simulations. No previous experience with OLGA is necessary, but a general knowledge of pipe flow and the thermodynamics is an advantage.

 

The topics covered by lectures, exercises and hand-out material include:

• Basic multiphase production hydraulics and thermal issues
• Introduction to OLGA topology and basic assumptions
• Introduction to PVTsim
• Flow Assurance issues for oil and gas-condensate production
• Terrain slugging mitigation, hydrodynamic slugging and OLGA Slugtracking
• Shut-in, cool-down, start-up and depressurization of a well-flowline-riser configuration
• Building a simulation model with minimum info
• Gas condensate pipe-modeling - characteristic steady state behaviour, pigging, turndown, ramp-up, three-phase flow, separator with level control
• and much more