Dr Isaac Ogazi
Flow Assurance Lead

Dr Isaac Ogazi is a highly experienced Flow Assurance Engineer with 7years in-depth relevant experiences covering industrial and research in multiphase flow assurance and process engineering. Industrial Experiences covers, both conceptual, FEED and detailed engineering studies for brown and green fields in shallow and deep water. Highly proficient with OLGA, Pipesim, HYSYS and UNISIM and has delivered flow assurance with OLGA course on behalf of SPT/Schlumberger. Isaac has very good grounding in the fundamental physics of fluid flow and has published 5 peer reviewed technical papers, conferences and SPE journals. Isaac has extensive experience working of numerous projects from deepwater to complex slug management.

Key Projects

·     Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, Bonga North Deepwater Concept Select study (Flow Assurance Lead)

·     - SNEPCo, Bonga Main Deepwater, Phase 3 Concept and FEED Study, SNEPCo (Flow Assurance Lead)

·     - SNEPCo, Bonga Southwest Deepwater, FEED Study

·     - SNEPCo, Bonga Main Field Gas Export Pipeline Depressurisation 

·     - SNEPCo, Bonga Field Integrated Concept study 

·     - SNEPCo, Bonga North Deepwater FEED study 

·     - SNEPCo, Bonga Main Field Topside Liquid/liquid Debottlenecking

·     - STATOIL, Bressay Heavy Oil Field, Concept Study

·     - PETROSA, F-O Gas Field Tieback, Detailed Study

·     - PETROSA F-O Subsea Gas Field Tieback FEED

·     - STATOIL, Mongstad-Sture Modification, Waxing and De-waxing Detailed Study

·     - EnCore, Catcher and Burgman Field Development Feasibility Study                                        

·     - HESS OIL, Cambo Subsea/Flow Assurance Study

·     - BP, HOD Subsea Brown and Green Oil Field Development, Detailed Study

·     - ZADCO, UPPER ZAKUM Field Development Study

·     - BP, AZERI Subsea Project, Pereriv-Balakhany Development

·     - Chevron’s UK ALBA North

·     - JIP Projects UK – Novel Slug Control System

 

Isaac has a PhD in Multiphase Flow Assurance from the Department of Process and Energy Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield UK, an MSc in Process Systems Engineering from the same university and a B.Eng. in Control System Engineering, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

- Ogazi, A.I, Cao, Y Cao, Y., Lao, L., and Yeung, H. (2011), “Production Potential of Severe Slugging Control Systems”, Submitted to Control Engineering Practice, 2011.

- Ogazi, A.,I., Cao, Y., Lao, L., Yeung, H. (2011)  Production Potential of Severe Slugging Control Systems,  to be presented 18th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Milano, Italy, Aug 2011

- Ogazi, A.I., Cao,Y., Yeung, H. and Lao, L., (2010)  Slug Control with Large Valve Opening to Maximise Oil Production, SPE124883, SPE Journal, vol 15, No.3 pp 812-821 2010.

- Ogazi, A.I., Ogunkolade, S.O., Cao, Y., Yeung, H and Lao, L., (2009)  Slug Control with Large Valve Opening to Maximise Oil Production”, SPE 124883, Offshore Europe Conference and Exhibition, Aberdeen, 8th – 11th September, 2009.

- Ogazi, A.I., Ogunkolade, S.O.  Cao, Y., Lao. and Yeung, H. (2009)  Robust Control of Severe Slugging at Open Loop Unstable Condition to Increase Oil Production,  International Conference on Systems Engineering, Coventry, 8th – 11th September, 2009