Slugging flow in offshore oil & gas multi-phase transportation pipelines cause big challenges as the flow regime induces flow and pressure oscillations in the multi-phase pipelines. The negative impacts of the most severe slugs are significant and thus the elimination of slugging flow in the pipelines is a highly investigated topic. To eliminate the slug in an online manner real-time slug detec...

Mathematical models have been popularly applied to study the compression processes of superheated refrigerant vapor in compressors. As to the case when refrigerant enters a compressor cylinder in the state of liquid and vapor mixture, however, the availability of fundamental studies is very limited. -A mathematical model is presented to simulate the compression processes of two-phase saturated ...

The presence of liquid refrigerant in the compressor cylinder during operation, or liquid slugging, is one of the most common causes of failure in reciprocating compressors. We propose to detect this fault by analyzing the electrical current flowing into the compressor and identifying the change in the load on the motor caused by the presence of liquid in the compressor cylinder. Two different ...

We are concerned with robust and accurate forecasting of multiphase flow rates in wells and pipelines during oil and gas production. In practice, the possibility to physically measure the rates is often limited; besides, it is desirable to estimate future values of multiphase rates based on the previous behavior of the system. In this work, we demonstrate that a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) re...

Active control of the production choke valve is the recommended solution to prevent severe slugging flow at offshore oilfields. This requires operation in an open-loop unstable operating point. It is possible to use PI or PID controllers which are the preferred choice in the industry, but they need to be tuned appropriately for robustness against plant changes and large inflow disturbances. The...

This paper illustrates the potential of nonlinear model-based control applied for stabilization of unstable flow in oil wells. A simple empirical model is developed that describes the qualitative behavior of the downhole pressure during severe riser slugging. A nonlinear controller is designed by an integrator backstepping approach, and stabilization for open-loop unstable pressure setpoints is...