Flow Assurance with OLGA

This three-day course is intended to turn the beginner into an OLGA user, capable of executing realistic flow assurance tasks.

A mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises help you understand flow assurance challenges, the fundamentals of multiphase pipeline thermohydraulics and how to apply OLGA in realistic flow assurance issues like:

• Basic production hydraulics
• Slugging and slugtracking
• Gas-lifting in a well-tubing
• Pipe sizing and slug catcher sizing (accounting for maximum production and minimum stable flow)
• Thermal issues - insulation and burial
• Shut-in, cool-down, depressurization and restart with compositional tracking.

The exercises are conducted using the OLGA Graphical User Interface (GUI) and thus all major features of the GUI are covered, e.g. model building, case execution, parametric studies and effective post-processing. Fluid property tables for OLGA are generated with PVTsim and an exercise is also dedicated to this.

The course is useful for the beginning to intermediate OLGA user, the prospective OLGA licensee and the design or operations professional interested in exploring the uses and capabilities of multiphase transient simulations. Our experienced instructors focus on teaching how you can turn your data into a good and effective OLGA model and how you should perform your simulations. No previous experience with OLGA is necessary, but a general knowledge of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics is an advantage.

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