Research at SUBPRO
Research at SUBPRO
The Norwegian oil and gas industry is in the forefront with respect to development of subsea oil and gas fields, but new and innovative solutions are still required to be able to increase the recovery from existing fields, enable developments of new and more demanding oil and gas fields and to reduce the cost and complexity of subsea field developments.
The research at SUBPRO is divided into five research areas:
- Field Architecture
- RAMS - Reliability, Availability, Maintenance and Safety
- Separation - Fluid Characterization
- Separation - Process Concepts
- System Control
Overview of Sub-Projects
Each of the SUBPRO research areas are divided into several sub-projects
Publications
Field Architecture
- Subsea gate box
- Field development concepts
- Multiphase booster models
- Optimizing subsea production systems to minimize risk and cost
- Optimization of subsea layout
- Low cost subsea field development
Separation - Process Concepts
- Membranes for gas dehydration
- Membrane testing for gas dehydration
- Natural gas dehydration with the use of membranes
- H2S and hydrate control
- Characterization of particle breakup
- Experiments on fluid particle breakage
- Mechanistic modeling of droplet breakage
- Compact separation concepts
- Subsea bulk oil‐water separation
System Control
- Dynamic simulation model library
- Modelling for control of subsea processes
- Process control algorithms
- Adaptive control of subsea processes
- Estimation of un-measured variables
- Enhanced virtual flow metering
- Control for extending component life
- Production optimization
- Energy-optimal subsea production and processing
- Experimental validation of methods - Remaining Useful Life (RUL)
- Field-wide production optimization
- Calibration of digital twins
RAMS
- New safety and control philosophy
- RAMS in system design
- Prognostics and condition based maintenance
- Optimizing condition monitoring
- Safety-critical systems for unmanned facilities
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Digital twin for safety demonstration
Separation - Fluid Characterization
- Produced water quality and injectivity
- Influence of production and EOR chemicals on produced water quality
- Wax deposition
- Sequential separation
- Modelling of coalescence
- Re-inj. of prod. water – disp. in porous media
- Gas flotation for subsea produced water treatment
- Flow improvers for waxy crudes
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Multiphase Separation and Transport Model Library