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UTC presenters tackle

Welltec’s team lowering the toolstring the electric wireline removal of hydrate fow challenges hydrates on a North Sea well.

be the frst of its kind in the world fered from design through to moni-

Dealing with hydrate when it starts up in 2015, adding an toring and metering, management formation in pipelines is extra 280 mmboe from the Mikkel and removal. becoming a hot topic. and Midgard reservoirs through the Henrik Alfredsson, CFD lead

The issue will be the use of two 10MW gas compressors engineer at Aker Solutions, says fow together with a scrubber, pump and assurance in general and hydrate focus of multiple papers cooler. prevention specifcally have been at this year’s Underwater

However, the 75m x 45m x 20m key to the Åsgard subsea compres-

Technology Conference. compression unit will have to deal sion project.

with an issue common to new and “Hydrate clogging is and has redevelopment projects alike – hy- always been a challenge in the oil &

By Elaine Maslin drates. gas industry,” he says. “The chal-

It is an area drawing a lot of inter- Statoil intends to have a “full subsea lenge now, as we move in to subsea est, including at this year’s Underwa- factory” by 2020 and one of its key processing and more specifcally

S ter Technology Conference (UTC) in projects to achieve this is the Åsgard subsea compression, is that the

Bergen, June 19-20. subsea compression project. process as such is more complicated

Solutions are being sought and of- In development since 2008, it will than for a normal SPS (subsea pro-

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