Topic: Subsea production and facility

Question

1) What is the operating working depths? _5000____ft of water

2) Flexible flowlines and risers?_ Flow lines______
3) Type of well? eg oil/gas well __gas____ horizontal or vertical?
___deviated_________
4) API=_____0.65 SG____GOR=___Dry gas______
5) If Oil Production,BOPD = __Condensate = 1000____---___
6) If Gas Production, SCF/d=___1 bcf_______
7) Fluids Production=__1000____bbls
8) Production riser ID__Use typical___in
9) Type of Subsea production system: diverless, guideless?__diverless______
10) HC and water flow rate___---____
11) Size of Reservoir=______2 tcf__________ (Reserves)
12) Areal extent=________400 arces__
13) Is there any host platform to handle processing capacity?___Yes_______
14) Type of offshore structure____Jacket_____ eg Jacket, Floating Production
System, FPSO SPAR, TLP, buoys etc
15) Distance of tie backs ___6 miles_
16) No of wells (on production), __8_____
17) Any injection wells for pressure maintence?____No___
18) Type of flowlines____Flex__ Eg welded steel type or Flexible Piping
19) Shut in pressures and temperature? ____150____degF,_3000______psi
20) Natural or Artificial Lift?__Natural____
21) Any Downhole Oil/Water Separation and Reinjection systems (DOWS)?
____NO_____
22) Is Subsea separation eg water, sand separation economical, use of subsea
gravity separators electrostatic coalescers, VASPs? No
23) Field distance from shore_______miles
24) Number of gas fields________
25)
26) Reservoir depth_________ft
27) Predominant Lithology (eg unconsolidated ss, carbonate etc)
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Production System Configuration

Riser and Flowline Type

Manifold and Cluster Size

• BOPD

• Fluids production(BFPD)

• Gas Production

Base System Configuration

Design Development
• Overall system arrangement and field layout
• Production riser count
• Control system configuration
• Service specification for flexible pipe

Overall system arrangement and field layout

The overall system arrangement and field layout is required to satisfy a large number
of diverse drivers include:
• Preferred well penetration to reservoir
• Preferred well path and wellhead location
• Clustering of wellheads
• Flow assurance limits on flowline elevation change
• Avoidance of seafloor obstruction (gas expulsion areas)
• Alternative riser systems
• Minimizing dropped object risk
• Variation in well count
• Future tie-ins and gas export
Subsea systems that have been proposed to date include:
1. Satellite Well production system
2. Semisubmersible production system
3. One atmospheric chamber production system
4. Subsea atmospheric system (SAS)
5. Exxon’s subsea production system (SPS)