Sand settling and locations of high erosion in subsea production system

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Trinidad and Tobago Energy Resources Conference 2010, SPE TT 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 702-711

  Shirazi, S A ^a   McLaury, B S ^a   Sow, E ^b   Butter, M ^c   Folefac, A ^c   Hassaballa, S A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c Rashid Petroleum Company   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOURCES; EROSION; FLOWLINES; GAS INDUSTRY; LOCATION; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; SAND; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CALCULATION MODELS; CRITICAL LOCATION; EROSION MONITORING; MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; OPERATING CONDITION; SCALED-DOWN VERSIONS; SUBSEA PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC THICKNESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 78650429570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/132909-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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