PIPESIM 2019.3 Now Available
Friday, 20 December 2019
Fit-for-purpose modern production systems ensure that fluids are cost-effectively transported with the highest possible safety from the reservoir to the processing facilities. Harsh environments such as deep-water fields with complex infrastructure or large-scale onshore developments pose many additional challenges that must be addressed by the production system design. The ability to accurately simulate such a broad range of scenarios and conditions has established the PIPESIM steady-state multiphase flow simulator as the industry’s leading tool for production system design.
Once production systems are brought into operation, the ability to ensure optimal production is critical to achieving the maximum economic potential of the asset. The PIPESIM simulator provides a comprehensive set of workflows ranging from candidate well selection for workovers to identification and mitigation of flow assurance challenges to online optimization of the complete system.
The newly redesigned user interface (UI) delivers a step change in user experience, enabling users to build models more quickly and focus on results. The ability to work within one application and switch between well-centric or network-centric application layouts simplifies the modeling of the entire production system.
From early field development and all the way to production operations, the PIPESIM simulator enables production optimization over the complete life cycle by accessing the latest targeted science to address flow assurance challenges.
A new inflow performance relationship (IPR) for horizontal wells is available in PIPESIM 2019.3. The trilinear transient IPR is a distributed IPR model for unconventional reservoirs with matrix permeabilities in the micro-Darcy range or less (such as shale). The model can be used to evaluate liquid production from a homogeneous type of inner (between hydraulic fractures) reservoir.
PIPESIM 2019.3 delivers an option for lift gas injection through several valves (multi-pointing) in the pressure temperature (P/T) profile task. The option can account for surface injection pressure and temperature, injection rate, frictional pressure gradient in the annulus, and possible throttling of the gas lift valve.
PIPESIM 2019.3 updates to the Python Toolkit include the following:
The product is suitable for use by production, process and flow assurance engineers, and those involved in multiphase flow simulation.
