Gja Flow Assurance System

Real Time Production Simulation

Flow Assurance and Dynamic Simulations Seminar
Stavanger 21.10.2010
Gjermund Weisz
SPT Group

Why are Flow Assurance Systems important?

 Online flow assurance for optimization and control

through automated monitoring and prediction of oil
and gas operations

Expand your actual Operating Envelope

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OLGA
Online
Full
enables
Operating
Normal
operation
Envelope
Operating
closer
to margins
Margins

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Standard
Liquid
Rate
Sm/d]
STANDARD
LIQUID
RATE[[Sm]
Hydrate Formation Temp. 18C

Stability P = 1 bar

Gas Velocity Limit 12 m/s

Wax Appearance Temp. 32C

Stability P = 6 bar

Erosional Velocity Limits

Reservoir Pressure 80 bara

Stability P = 12 bar

Stable Operating Envelope

Bring Dynamic
Flow Assurance
into daily operations
Identified Operational Benefits:

Ensure stable operation and optimised production

Reduce unplanned shutdowns
Faster recovery on start-up
Early water break through detection
Optimise inhibitor and gas injection
Reduce uncertainty better decision making
Improved testing, operation and optimisation of wells
Extensive virtual instrumentation
Focal-point for multi-discipline knowledge building

Install Base of OLGA Online...

40 Sites

OLGA Online Architecture

FA Challenges - The Gja Field

Routing of well streams from oil to gas

condensate pipelines
Virtual Meetering backup
Control of temperature (wax, hydrates)
Control of slugs
Early water/gas detection
Planning of production
Create/Validate operational procedures

Gja Flow Assurance

System (FAS)
Client/Operator: GDF SUEZ
Site:
Norway
Delivery:
2010

System Integration:

OSI PI historical
database
Model (OLGA):

Production wells (13)

5 subsea manifolds

2 flowlines (one
dedicated for oil and
one for gas wells)

1st and 2nd stage

separators topside

Gas lift and gas warm

up dynamics
Modes:

Real-time

Planning (what-if)

Includes flow assurance

service contract for 5
years
plus options for 3+3 years

Applications:

Transparent production
system

Gas/water
breakthrough advisor

Liquid inventory
advisor

Slugging advisor

MEG tracking advisor

Planned production
forecasting advisor

Tuning system

Gja FAS Overview

Real-Time Model (RTM) Oil Well With Gas Lift

RTM Profile Plot for Well

RTM Trend Plot for Well

RTM Hydrate Alarm

RTM Water and Gas Breakthrough Advisors

RTM Slug and Surge Advisor

RTM Liquid Inventory

RTM Tuning

What-If Model Second Stage Separator

What-If Model Template B

Planning Tool

Input Simulation tags

Select Pig # 1
Time to start ramp Down

Current time

Pig signal to launch pig into

Pipeline 6

Launch Pig # 1

Reduce flow rate

Select Pig # 2
Increase flow rate
Launch Pig # 2

Reduce flow rate

Start ramp up to 1600

Pig signal to launch pig into

Pipeline 6

Gja
Flow Assurance System

GDF SUEZ Integrated Operations ambitions are to increase

Hydrocarbon recovery factor, increase preventive maintenance
and reduce operational expenditures through better and faster
decisions through collaboration with external vendors and
service companies like SPT Group
Terje Overvik, Managing Director for GDF SUEZ E&P Norge

Thank you for your attention !