GATE, ITP Collaborate on Offshore Oilfield Flow Assurance Studies
July 30, 2009
GATE, LLC and ITP InterPipe (ITP) will be collaborating on offshore
oilfield flow assurance studies. The collaboration brings together a
comprehensive set of skills across the entire range of flow assurance
challenges facing deepwater oil and gas developments. The GATE-ITP team
features expertise in key areas surrounding flow assurance including
multiphase flow modeling, oil and water characterization, scaling
assessment, assessment of souring due to water injection, erosion
modeling, pipeline design and waterflood injectivity. This set of
skills permits GATE-ITP to provide a complete set of flow assurance
services with a systems engineering focus.
Howard Duhon,P.E., GATE's Systems Engineering Manager for flow
assurance, said that this collaboration would provide oil companies
with expertise across all relevant flow assurance issues with just one
phone call.
ITP Interpipe, based in Paris and Houston, specializes in the design
and provision of highly insulated pipelines including pipe-in-pipe
flowlines and insulated subsea cryogenic pipelines for LNG service. ITP
managers Dr. Vicki Niesen and Dr. Trent Brown are pioneers in the
development of the field of flow assurance.
