Multiphase Pipeline Flow Experiments for Enabling Tieback Solutions

The innovation project ChemFlow aims to help reducing the environmental footprint of offshore oil and gas production by enabling subsea tiebacks with complex fluid chemistry. Now the experimental work is taking place.

Tieback solutions to existing oil and gas facilities can play a key role for Norway’s ability to meet emission targets while maintaining a competitive industry.

However, petroleum production systems often deliver fluids with complex physical chemistry. The innovation project ChemFlow aims to develop new models in the multiphase flow simulator LedaFlow taking the properties of fluids with complex chemistry into account.

Ongoing experimental campaigns in ChemFlow reveal new knowledge that is essential for understanding the impact of chemicals on flow behavior and improving the accuracy of the prediction models required for cost efficient and safe design and operation of tie-back systems.

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