Control Solutions for Subsea Processing and Multiphase Transport
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چکیده
To increase the oil production for the Tordis subsea oilfield located at the Norwegian Continental Shelf, a subsea separation and boosting station will be installed. Most of the water will be injected into a subsea reservoir instead of being transported up to the platform. Several challenges conserning process control need to be addressed before the implementation process, and dynamic simulations have therefore been performed in order to develop and test different control strategies to deal with these challenges. The results from some of these simulations will be presented in this paper. Copyright c © 2006 IFAC
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