Controlling hydrate slurry flow to enable deepwater oil and gas production

控制水合物浆液流量以实现深水石油和天然气生产

• 批准号: LP150100785
• 负责人: Prof Eric May
• 金额: $ 29.23万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-12-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP150100785
• 关键词: Controlling; hydrate; slurry; flow; enable

This project aims to investigate the plugging of hydrate slurries in pipelines to determine under what conditions they will flow satisfactorily without forming a blockage. Hydrate blockages are expensive and hazardous occurrences in oil and gas operations, so current prevention systems aim to avoid hydrate formation altogether through over-design. These over-designed hydrate prevention systems are extremely expensive to build and costly to run during the operations phase. The project intends to examine the behaviour of hydrate slurry flow as a function of the oil's properties, amount of water and degree of turbulence. Outcomes are intended to be a sophisticated approach to avoiding hydrate blockages that is safe but more efficient and less costly.

该项目旨在研究管道中水合物浆液的堵塞，以确定在什么条件下它们会令人满意地流动而不会形成堵塞。水合物堵塞是石油和天然气作业中昂贵且危险的事件，因此当前的预防系统旨在通过过度设计完全避免水合物形成。这些过度设计的水合物预防系统的建造成本极其昂贵，并且在操作阶段运行成本高昂。该项目旨在研究水合物浆体流动的行为作为石油性质、水量和湍流程度的函数。其成果旨在成为一种避免水合物堵塞的复杂方法，这种方法安全，但效率更高，成本更低。