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INSTALLATION Multiphase Flowmeter
INSTALLATION Multiphase Flowmeter
1. DESIGN CONSIDERATION:
Before the MPFM is finally selected and installation started, the following
items should have been considered:
1. Vendors installation requirements (when it comes to the meter
installation).
2. Limits have been established for temperature, pressure and flow rates
at the MPFM location, and it has been ensured that these parameters
and the production envelope are within the Operating and measuring
envelopes of the MPFM.
3. PVT data at the MPFM location as required for optimal measurements.
4. Facilities to ease the installation and removal of the meter. It might be
wise to plan for the possibility to replace the MPFM with another sized
MPFM to accommodate unexpected well flow-rates.
5. Access for maintenance and service of instruments, single phase
checking cleaning of internal deposits that may form.
6. Bypass to prevent well shutdown during testing and service.
7. Facilities and access for flow rate checking. Header to local test
separator or connection to transportable test equipment. Injection
point(s) for tracers.
8. Power and communication lines to the meter computer for local and
remote data collection, configuration, operation and verification of
communication line.
9. Facilities to collect multiphase fluid samples. (Very difficult to get
representative
samples
of
multiphase
fluids.
No
standard
yet
available.)
10.
Flow mixing requirements.
11.
Backup facilities and spare parts.
2. INSTALLATION REQUIREMENT:
One should as early as possible clarify if the vendor has any special
installation requirements. This might include:
1. Vertical / horizontal alignment
2. Requirements on straight pipe lengths before and after the MPFM
3. Special requirements for accessing the MPFM
REFERENCE:
1. Multiphase Flow Metering, Principles and Applications By Gioia Falcone,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, Geoffrey Hewitt,
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London,
UK,C. Alimonti, Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
2. Norwegian Society for Oil and Gas Measurement. Handbook of
Multiphase Flow Metering. Revision 2, March 2005
3. Ross, A., Stobie, G. Well Testing An Evaluation of Test Separators and
Multiphase Flow Meters. In Proc. of 28th North Sea Flow Measurement
Workshop, October 2010.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphase_flow_meter.
5. http://www.slb.com/resources/publications/books/multiphase_metering_
fundamentals.aspx.
6. Martin, J.C. 1959. Simplified Equations of Flow in Gas Drive Reservoirs
and the Theoretical Foundation of Multiphase Pressure Buildup
Analyses. SPE-1235-G. Trans., AIME, 216: 321323.
7. https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/SPE-81534-MS.
8. Scheers, A.M., Noordhuis, B.R., Multi-phase and Wet Gas Flow
Measurement, 5th Annual Multi-Phase Metering Conference, Aberdeen,
Scotland, 1999.
9. Mehdizadeh, P., 2006 Worldwide Multiphase and Wet Gas Metering
Installations, Production Technology Report 03232007, 2007.
10.
Babelli, I.M.M., In Search of an Ideal Multiphase Flow Meter for
the Oil Industry, Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, Volume
27, Number 2B, October 2002, pp. 113 126.
11.
http://www.spe.org/news/article/virtual-flowmeters-a-low-costalternative.