Controlling hydrate slurry flow to enable deepwater oil and gas production

该项目旨在研究水合物泥浆在管道中的堵塞情况，以确定在什么条件下它们可以在不形成堵塞的情况下令人满意地流动。水合物堵塞是石油和天然气作业中代价高昂且危险的事件，因此目前的预防系统旨在通过过度设计完全避免水合物的形成。这些过度设计的水合物预防系统建造成本极高，在运营阶段运行成本也很高。该项目旨在研究水合物泥浆的流动行为作为石油的性质、水量和湍流程度的函数。结果旨在成为一种复杂的方法，以避免水合物堵塞，这是安全的，但更有效，成本更低。

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.