Flow Assurance 101 – The Minimum You Should Know About Flow Assurance
Disciplines: Production and Operations | Projects, Facilities, and Construction
Course Description
This 2-day course is an introduction to the role and impact of flow assurance on field life from the exploration, development, and operation phases. The course will cover reservoir fluid sampling / lab analysis, fluid phase behaviour, thermal-hydraulic issues of multiphase flow, and managing hydrate, asphaltene, wax, emulsion and scale. For each topic, the course will cover laboratory testing methods, overview of the fluid and flow modelling, identifying flow assurance issues and methods to mitigate them, and finally, how they are implemented. The course will also cover systems integration issues impacting other engineering disciplines. A fast-emerging area is carbon capture and storage which will be broadly covered, where the course will address the thermophysical and transport properties of Carbon Capture Sequestration (CCS) fluids (with and without impurities) and the flow assurance of the CCS pipeline. Uncertainties in design and the practical real-world applications and limitations will also be covered.
Daily Agenda
Learning Level
Introductory
Course Length
2-Day
Why Attend
- Best practices during the exploration and appraisal phase to ensure flow assurance issues are considered and accounted for during the subsequent field development phase
- What laboratory tests are critical and how we use them to predict flow assurance fluids behaviour?
- How to account for flow assurance issues during the concept select and design phase?
- How does flow assurance affect subsea systems and topsides facilities?
- How flow assurance affects other disciplines and vice versa, during the design and opration phase?
- How to prevent or mitigate hydrate, asphaltene, and wax issues?
- Case studies of when things go wrong and what we can learn from them
- Avoid unnecessary costs by knowing what is important and what is not for flow assurance
- Prevent from repeating mistakes made by others by learning from them
- Discover why flow assurance engineers are NOT popular in the project team
Who Attends
Professionals who are involved in:
- Production Chemistry
- Reservoir Engineering
- Wells Engineering
- Surface and Facilities Engineering
- Process and Flow Assurance
- Project Management
- Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.
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We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.
Instructors
Bazlee Matzain is a specialist in flow assurance engineering with more than 30 years of oil-gas industry experience. He has been involved in numerous complex flow assurance issues / trouble-shooting, field operations, and optimisation studies for several Operators. His work experience includes being a researcher for PETRONAS and University of Tulsa USA, a lead flow assurance engineer for a large engineering company, a flow assurance technical manager for a software engineering company. He was the lead researcher that developed the "MATZAIN" was deposition model currently used in OLGA. Bazlee holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toledo USA and MSc and PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa USA. He is a Fellow and Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia.
Rohaizad Mohd Norpiah graduated with a chemical engineering degree from Monash University, Australia. He has been in the oil and gas industry for 35 years and involved in all phases of field development from exploration to field abandonment as a process and flow engineer. He has worked in several countries such as Malaysia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Uzbekistan and others. He has also been involved in SPE flow assurance activites since 2008 and has been a co-author of 15 papers, presenter, committee member, co-chairman, advisor and course co-instructor. He has been an adjunct lecturer at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS mechanical engineering department since 2012. He is currently the upstream process engineering and flow assurance advisor to a petroleum company.
Zalina Ali holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona, USA and has over 29 years of experience in Upstream Oil and Gas industry. Her area of expertise is in process engineering and flow assurance with a range of involvement in operations, design and in service industry. She has been involved in a full life project cycle at every stage of upstream oil and gas industry development from feasibility to detailed engineering projects, and operation phases providing technical expertise to both projects and existing field operations. Currently, she is heavily involved in some of the critical focus areas for PETRONAS: Flow Assurance Center (FAC), Reservoir, Well, Facilities Management (RWFM), IFPEM and Carbon Capture Storage (CCS). She is currently the Custodian and Group Technical Authority (GTA) for Process Engineering and Flow Assurance, Project Delivery & Technology (PD&T), PETRONAS.