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Gathering and Transportation in Petroleum Engineering


Lecturer: Pham Son Tung, Ph.D

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Gathering and Transportation in Petroleum
Engineering
Teacher’s Contact, Course Requirements,
Learning Objectives & Outlines

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Pham Son Tung, Ph.D, Faculty of Geology & Petroleum Engineering, HCMUT, Vietnam 9/23/20
Teacher’s contact
— Name: Pham Son Tung
— Lecturer at Hochiminh city University of Technology, Faculty of Geology &
Petroleum Engineering, Department of Drilling & Production.
— Office: 102B8
— Email: phamsontung@hcmut.edu.vn

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Course Requirements
— Regular attendance in class (less than 3 absences)
— Taking notes (Important: knowledge given orally during lecture will be officially
accounted in the course, moreover, sometimes erroneous slides are corrected
during lecture)
— Exercises in class
— Homework and assignments

— Personal computer with Excel


— Calculator
— Papers and pens/bics

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Learning Objectives
At the end of this lecture, you should be able to understand the fundamentals of gathering & transportation in petroleum
engineering and do some basic analyses/calculations as follows:
— System of transport and gathering: offshore platforms, offshore storage system (FPSO, FSO, fixed structure
offshore storage), subsea system (wellhead, pipeline, manifold, jumpers, connections, umbilical, risers,
PLET/PLEM), valves, chokes
— Pressure drop calculation: single phase and multi phase
— Heat transfer calculation: fluid’s temperature along pipeline (steady-state, transient flow, single & multiphase),
through pipeline’s wall
— Pipeline design: diameter, thickness, heat transfer coefficient, thermal insulation calculations
— Erosion: multiphase erosion velocity calculation, sand erosion (sand control)
— Corrosion: causes and protection
— Hydrate: formation, prevention, prediction (calculations of temperature & pressure of hydrate formation), remedies
— Wax paraffin: formation, prevention, prediction (determination of WAT, calculations of wax deposit thickness),
remedies (pigging strategy, calculation of pigging period)
— Slug flow: formation, prevention, prediction, remedies (calculations of surge volume and slug frequency)
— Production allocation: introduction, basic calculations (back allocation, by difference, uncertainty based
allocation)
— Emulsion problems
— And some basic oil field processing: separator, dehydration, desalting of crude oil, stabilization and sweetening of crude oil, gas sweetening, water
5 treatment. This part belongs to “Processing of oil & gas Course”, so students are required to know just basic notions.
Pham Son Tung, Ph.D, Faculty of Geology & Petroleum Engineering, HCMUT, Vietnam 9/23/20
References
— Oil and gas pipelines and piping systems: design, construction, management and
inspection, Alireza Bahadori, Elsevier, 2017.
— Flow assurance solids in oil and gas production, Jon Steinar Gudmundsson, Taylor
& Francis, 2018.
— Oilfield processing, Vol. 1, Natural gas, Francis S. Manning, Pennwell Publication
— Oilfield processing, Vol. 2, Crude oil, Francis S. Manning, Pennwell Publication
— Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Volume IV, SPE, Editors: Clegg, Lake
— Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Bradley

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Course Outlines
— Chapter 1. Gathering and transportation System
— Chapter 2. Flow assurance: fundamentals
— Chapter 3. Flow assurance: special issues
— Chapter 4. Some more gathering and transportation facilities
— Chapter 5. Production allocation

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9/23/20
Gathering and Transportation in Petroleum
Engineering
Chapter 1: Gathering & Transportation System
• Overview
• Offshore platforms
• Subsea system
• Pipeline
• Storage

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Oil Fields and Their Lifecycle
qA lifecycle of an oil field consists of the following stages:

— Exploration
— Appraisal
— Development
— Production
— Abandonment

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Revenue Throughout Life Cycle

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Petroleum from beginning to end

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Processing facilities
q Oil Processing

Simplified Processing Oil Facilities Scheme

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Processing facilities
q Gas Processing

Simplified Processing Gas Facilities Scheme.We note


that the process may be repeated to improve the purity of the gas.
Some processing procedures are hidden (e.g. removal of
contaminants such as H2S, CO2 (sweetening) and N2)

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Overview of operations associated with gathering, transport & processing of oil & gas

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Processing facilities
q Heat exchanger

q Recycle and/or disposal of water and gas


q Separator:
q Gravity separators
q Centrifugal separators

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Offshore platforms
q Type of fluid
q Production rate
q Location
q Shallow water & Deepwater. Deepwater is a term often used to refer to
offshore projects located in water depths greater than around 1,300).
Generation Water Depth Dates
First about 600 ft 200 m Early 1960s
Second about 1000 ft 300 m 1969–1974
Third about 1500 ft 500 m Early 1980s
Fourth about 3000 ft 1000 m 1990s
Fifth about 7500 ft 2500 m 1998–2004
Sixth about 10000 ft 3000 m 2005–2010
Offshore drilling rigs have been loosely classified in nominal "generations" depending upon the
year built and water depth capability
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Jacket of a
fixed platform

Types of
offshore
platforms

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Compliant
towers

Moving a compliant tower to a field


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Deepsea Delta semi-
submersible drilling
rig in the North Sea

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A jackup platform in place

A jackup platform is being towed

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Enterprise drillship

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TLP TLP connected to FPSO

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Gravity-based structures

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Spar
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Subsea Production System
q Subsea production systems are wells located on the sea floor, as opposed to at the surface. Typically in use at deep water,
and do not have the ability to drill, only to extract and transport
q Subsystems: the subsea system is divided into typical subsystems.

q The main subsystems are:


— Subsea wellhead and X-mas tree equipment: wellhead, tubing hanger, X-mas tree with choke, PGB (Permanent
Guide Base), completion workover riser, workover control system.
— Production Control System: would typically include subsea control module electronics and hydraulics, subsea
electrical/hydraulic and chemical injection distribution system, tree instrumentation, misc. tools, and master control-,
power/comms- and hydraulic power units on surface.
— Umbilical: electrical, hydraulic and chemical lines including terminations.
— Intervention system: would typically include tools for pull in and connection of sealines/umbilicals, tools for running of
choke, control pod, pig launcher etc., surface control container, umbilical winch, lift wire winch, heave comp. eq. etc.
— Subsea structures and piping systems: template and satellite structures, manifold and riser base structures,
protection structures, piping modules.
— Subsea flowlines: any risers, hard pipes, flexible lines, rigid risers, dynamic risers

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Wellhead
q Wellhead systems differ by well location:
— Land
— Surface locations offshore
— Subsea

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Onshore Wellhead

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Subsea Wellhead
q Today, wellhead systems are designed to standard pressure classes which for offshore / subsea applications are 10,000 and
15,000 PSI. New developments are ongoing to expand the wellhead capacities to 20,000 PSI pressures and temperature up
to 400oF (~200oC).

SubseaWellhead

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Surface Wellhead
q The wellhead is located on the offshore production platfom.

Example of SurfaceWellhead
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Jumpers
q In subsea oil/gas production systems, a subsea jumper, as shown below, is a short pipe connector that is used to
transport production fluid between two subsea components, for example, a tree and a manifold, a manifold and
another manifold. It may also connect other subsea structures such as PLEM/PLETs and riser bases. In addition to being
used to transport production fluid, a jumper can also be used to inject water into a well.

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Control systems
q Subsea Production Control Systems: would typically include subsea control module electronics and hydraulics, subsea
electrical/hydraulic and chemical injection distribution system, tree instrumentation, and hydraulic power units on
surface
• Hydraulic control: safe, durability, but response time is slow depending on the fluid movement. The response time is critical especially
in urgent case.
• Electrical control: fast, but not good durability
• Hydraulic & electrical mixed: take the advantages of the two
• Sonic control: newly developed. Example: to activate the Side Sliding Door

Subsea control layout Subsea control schematic


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Subsea manifolds
q Definition: Production wells are typically connected into a manifold that commingles the wellstream from multiple wells
into a single flowline.

Subsea manifold within a


Subsea Manifold
protection structure

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Umbilical
q An umbilical, is a bundled arrangement of tubing, piping, and/or electrical conductors in an armored sheath that is installed
from the host facility to the subsea production system equipment.
q Umbilical dimensions typically range up to 10 in. (25.4 cm) in diameter.
q The umbilical will include multiple tubing normally ranging in size up to 2 in. (5.08 cm).

Umbilical

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Subsea tie-back development
q The host of subsea tie-backs can be categorized as follows:
• Tie-back to floating production unit;
• Tie-back to platform;
• Tie-back to onshore facility.

Subsea Tie-Back to FPSO Subsea Tie-Back to TLP Subsea Tie-Back to Onshore Facility

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Stand-alone development
q Stand alone field development needs to construct a new
host platform. Installation of new infrastructure in deep
water is exceedingly expensive.
q Using the existing infrastructure is the first consideration
for starting a new development. This includes existing
production platforms, pipelines and wells.
q Following issues are the main considerations for a stand-
alone field development:
• Well groupings. Clustering wells or installing well
templates;
• Optimizing flowline configuration;
• Pigging requirements;
• Possible needs for subsea production boosting or Typical stand–alone field development
pumping as part of the initial development or future
needs.

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Floating production systems
q FPSO: floating production, storage, and offloading system

FPSO

FPSO diagram

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Some examples of offshore offloading systems
q Articulated Loading Platform

Diagram of an ALP Articulated


Loading Column

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Some examples of offshore offloading systems
q Single Buoy Mooring – SBM, or Single Point Mooring (SPM):

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Single-point mooring facility
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Central Processing Platform

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Gathering, Tranportation and Processing
in Petroleum Engineering
Chapter 2: Flow assurance: fundamentals
• Introduction
• Hydraulic analysis: Pressure drop calculation
• Thermal analysis: Heat transfer calculation
• Pipeline design: inner diameter, thermal insulation,
wall thickness, erosional velocity

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Why Flow assurance?
q Challenges in pipeline projects:
• Historical
• Political
• Financial
• Technical
q Flow assurance: ensuring successful
and economical flow of hydrocarbon
stream in pipeline
• Wax
• Hydrate
• Slug
• Scale
• Leak detection
q Computation Various parameters affecting pipe flow computation complexity
• Pressure drop
• Heat transfer

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Why Flow assurance?

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Three Parts of Pressure Gradient

dP 4 dV
= - r g sin(q ) - t w - r V
dz d dz

Gravitational Part: Due to Frictional Part: Due to Accelerational Part: Due to


elevation differences – friction between fluid acceleration of fluids –
main part in tubing strings and pipe wall – main Important only for high
part in flowlines speed gas flow

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Turbulent Flow
— Transition from laminar to
turbulent happens at about
Re=2100

— Turbulent pipe flow


— Flow structures irregular
— No analytical expression for
velocity profile

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Flow regime is determined by Reynolds Number
rV d
Re =
µ
q Reynolds number with variables in field units
lb/ft3 ft/s
in
r Vd
Re = 124
µ
cp

q Reynolds number expressed in terms of volumetric


flowrate (and in field units) of liquid
lb/ft3 bbl/d bbl/d

rq gq
Re = 1.4775 in Re = 92.2 in
µd µd
cp cp
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q The pressure gradient in the pipe is given by:

dP f Moody r V 2
= - r g sin(q ) -
dz d 2

dP r q2
or by: = - r g sin(q ) - 8 f Moody 2 5
dz p d
q To account for the proper units we have:
psi/ft bbl/d

dP g q 2
= -0.433 g sin(q ) - 1.1471 ´ 10 - 5 f Moody 5
dz d
in
q The moody friction factor can be estimated using 16
correlations such as: é ù
1 ê ú
é 8 12 ù 1
A = ê 2.457 ln ú
12
æ ö 1 ê æ e öú
f Moody = 8 êç ú
0.9
÷ + 3 ê
æ 7 ö
ç ÷ + 0.27 ç ÷ú
êè Re ø ú
(A + B) 2 û ë è Re ø è d øû
ë
16
æ 37530 ö
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Relative
Laminar Critical Zone Transition Complete Turbulent Roughness

0.10 e
0.09 e 3500
= d
0.08 d Re
0.07 0.05

0.06
Moody Friction Factor

0.05 0.02
0.015
0.04 0.010

0.006
0.03 64
f Moody =
Re
0.002

0.02 0.001
0.0006

0.0002
Smooth Pipe
0.0001
0.00005
0.01

102 103 104 105 106 107 108


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Moody Friction Factor...
— The pipe wall roughness depends on the material and the quality of the
finishing of the internal surface as well as past operating conditions.
— This is just a reference

Material e ( ft )
Riveted Steel 0.003 - 0.03
Concrete 0.001 – 0.01
Cast Iron 0.00085
Galvanized Iron 0.0005
Asphalted Cast Iron 0.0004
Commercial Steel 0.00015
Drawn Tubing 0.000005
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Single Phase Flow in Pipes...
Pwfo (q ) = Ps + DPTubing (q ) + DPFlowline (q )

(
Pwfo (q ) = Ps + 0.433 g DZTubing + DZ Flowline )
æ f Tubing
2 ç Moody
L f Flowline
Moody LFlowline
ö
+ 1.1471 ´ 10 g q
-5 Tubing
+ ÷
ç d 5
d 5 ÷
è Tubing Flowline ø
q The natural equilibrium flowrate can be obtained by solving:
q
(
Pr - = Ps + 0.433 g DZ Tubing + DZ Flowline
J
)
æ f Tubing
2 ç Moody
L f Flowline
Moody LFlowline
ö
+ 1.1471 ´ 10 g q
-5 Tubing
+ ÷
ç d 5
d 5 ÷
è Tubing Flowline ø
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Single Phase Flow in Pipes – Exercise 1
q Example: Calculate the equilibrium flowrate for the following water
well:
Ø Pr - 5000 psig
Ø J - 2 bpd/psi
Ø Psep - 100 psig
Ø e - 0.000015 ft
Ø µ - 1 cp
Ø g -1
Ø Tubing - 2” - 5000 ft - Vertical
Ø Flowline - 2” - 10000 ft - Horizontal

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Single Phase Flow in Pipes – Exercise 1
Flowline Tubing
Iteration qi Flowline
qi+1
Tubing
Re f Moody Re f Moody

1 5000

6
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Single Phase Flow in Pipes...
q The other solution is the graphical method:

5000
OPR
4500
Bottom Hole Flowing Pressure (psi)

4000 (
Pwfo ( q ) = Ps + 0.433g DZTubing + DZ Flowline )
3500
æ

f Tubing
L f Flowline
LFlowline ö
3000 + 1.1471 10 g q
-5 Moody Tubing
+
Moody
÷
ç d 5
d 5 ÷
è Tubing Flowline ø
2500
IPR
2000
1500 q
Pwfi ( q ) = Pr -
1000 J
500
0
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000
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Single Phase Flow in Pipes – Exercise 1

q We use the same data as in Exercise 7.1, but


now let’s examine the equilibrium flowrates
for different flowline and tubing diameters:

Ø Flowlines of 1 ½”, 2”, 2 ½”, 3”

Ø Tubings of 2 3/8”, 2 7/8”, 3 ½”

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Single Phase Flow in Pipes – Exercise 1
q The natural equilibrium flowrates for different
tubing and flowline sizes are:

Natural Equilibrium Flowrate (bpd)


Flowline
Tubing
1 1/2” 2” 2 ½” 3”
2 3/8”
2 7/8”
3 ½”
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Two Phase Flow...

— In order to illustrate some important phenomena that


occurs in two phase flow, lets focus on the following
problem of two phase flow in pipes:
— Known imput volumetric flowrates of liquid and gas
— No phase change
— Steady state
— Incompressible phases.
— Let’s now examine this problem

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Two Phase Flow... Ap

qg
ql
qg ql
— The input volumetric fraction of each phase is defined by: lg = ll =
q g + ql q g + ql

q The total mixture volumetric flowrate is given by: qm = q g + ql

— The superficial velocity of each phase is define as the velocity each phase qg ql
would have if flowing alone in the pipe: Vsg = Vsl =
Ap Ap
q g + ql
q The total mixture velocity is: V = V + V =
m sg sl
Ap
— Since this is a steady state problem, we expect the flowrates at the exit
to be the same as the flowrates at the entrance of the pipe.
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Two Phase Flow Variables...

— The fraction of the pipe area occupied by gas is ag. The area occupied
by liquid is al.

qg qg

ql ql
qg Al Ag qg
lg = al = ag = lg =
q g + ql Ap Ap q g + ql
ql ql
ll = ll =
q g + ql a g + al = 1 q g + ql

q The actual velocities of the phases in the pipe are then:


qg Vsg ql V
Vg = = Vl = = sl
Ap a g ag Ap a l a l
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Two Phase Flow Variables...

— Remember that the inlet phase volumetric fraction is just a ratio of the phase
flowrate to the mixture flowrate
— The actual volumetric fraction is the fraction of the pipe occupied by the phase.
— Those values are not necessarily the same
— The inlet volumetric fraction is defined by the liquid and gas flowrates or liquid
and gas superficial velocities.
— The actual volumetric fraction is the result of the spatial distribution of the phases
and will also influence the phases actual velocities.

qg ql
Inlet volumetric fraction lg = ll =
q g + ql q g + ql
Ag Al
Actual volumetric fraction a g = al =
Ap Ap
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Two Phase Flow Variables...

— We can see that under those conditions, both phases have the same velocity, the
mixture velocity
— We say that the phases have no “slip” (no slippage between phases)
— For that reason the value of the inlet phase fraction is also called “no-slip” phase
fraction. And this is the nomenclature we will adopt from this point on.

V g = Vl = Vm

lg = a g

No-slip phase fraction Phase fraction

ll = a l
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Two Phase Flow Patterns...

— Vertical Upward Flow


— Bubbly
— Dispersed Bubble
— Intermittent (Slug & Churn)
— Annular

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Two Phase Flow Patterns...

— Horizontal Flow
— Stratified
— Stratified Smooth (SS)
— Stratified Wavy (SW)
— Intermittent
— Elongated Bubble (EB)
— Slug (SL)
— Annular
— Annular Mist (AM)
— Annular Wavy (AW)
— Dispersed Bubble (DB)

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Flow Pattern Map

Mandhane et al. (1974) horizontal flow pattern map based on experiments

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Flow Pattern Map...
10
D-B

Slug
1
E-B

vSL(m/s)
0.1
Annular

0.01 S-S S-W

0.001
0.01 0.1 1 10 100
vSG(m/s)

Horizontal flow pattern map based on Barnea (1987) unified model

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Empirical Correlations

— Three Categories:
— A – No slip, no flow pattern consideration
— Homogeneous mixture
— Mixture friction factor correlations
— B – Slip considered, no flow pattern considered
— Correlations for both liquid holdup and friction factor
— C – Slip considered, flow pattern considered
— Correlation for flow pattern
— Correlations for liquid holdup and friction factor for each flow pattern

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Flow in Wells

Well Flow Correlations Category


Poetmann and Carpenter A
Baxendell and Thomas A
Fancher and Brown A
Hagedorn and Brown B
Gray B
Asheim B
Duns and Ros C
Orkiszewski C
Aziz et al. C
Chierici et al. C
Beggs and Brill C
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Poettman & Carpenter

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Poettman & Carpenter
Poettman & Carpenter
Poettman &
Carpenter
Poettman & Carpenter – Exercise

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