Flow assurance for oil-gas fields production transport

This important book is structured to provide flow assurance for transporting reservoir production fluids between the reservoir and the host processing facility as well as providing the basics of oil and gas reservoirs and host processing facilities. Flow assurance is defined, reservoir production fluids discussed, economics considered and host processing facilities options presented. Flow assurance issues likely to be confronted in reservoir and field development are evaluated in detail as are methods to assist in the design and operation of systems. A practical case-study in the development of flow assurance methods is included.. Subsea technologies that provide the economic value for offshore reservoir exploitation have been summarised and included is a chapter on reducing the environmental impact of releasing hydrocarbone into the atmosphere.