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a multi-billion-dollar facility ?oating in the surance, Annadorai believes there will be “These come with a whole bunch of ?ow deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The end result some unknowns and some innovative so- assurance challenges that cannot be solved could be more downtime for the facility due lutions to solve the issues that crop up with by old-fashioned solutions developed over to insuf?cient sample ?uids. drilling in ever deeper water depths and in the past decades,” he says. “There’s going

But when enough sample ?uid is pris- higher pressure reservoirs. to be decades of learning coming up.” tinely collected from the proper zone, it’s possible to do the right tests needed to pinpoint potential production chemistry issues and mitigate the issues.

“When you know what the production chemistry looks like, you can ?nd the right chemicals, the right operations environ- ment, the right operability plan,” he says. “You identify and understand the problem, and you prepare for it.”

But it’s not as simple as relying on pressure-volume-temperature analysis or chemical testing or ?uids testing or plug- ging data into thermohydraulic ?uid mod- eling software, he says.

Annadorai says that it’s important to treat the subsurface, subsea system and topsides

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stand those cascading effects, he says. He’s heard ?ow assurance professionals say things like “I had no idea this chemical did that” or “I had no idea that this decision I would have made would have that impact.”

He says it’s possible to involve the right stakeholders during ?eld design planning.

This way, he says, everyone is in the same room, speaking the same language, and incorporating ideas to support the whole production system.

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