An approach for prediction of petroleum production facility performance considering Arctic influence factors

• Main Authors: Gao, Xueli, Barabady, Javad, Markeset, Tore
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0951832010000773

As the oil and gas (O&G) industry is increasing the focus on petroleum exploration and development in the Arctic region, it is becoming increasingly important to design exploration and production facilities to suit the local operating conditions. The cold and harsh climate, the long distance from customer and suppliers’ markets, and the sensitive environment may have considerable influence on the choice of design solutions and production performance characteristics such as throughput capacity, reliability, availability, maintainability, and supportability (RAMS) as well as operational and maintenance activities. Due to this, data and information collected for similar systems used in a normal climate may not be suitable. Hence, it is important to study and develop methods for prediction of the production performance characteristics during the design and operation phases. Production performance; Reliability; Maintainability; Throughput capacity; Arctic; Oil and gas;