ANÁLISE DO COMPORTAMENTO DA TEMPERATURA EM SISTEMAS DE PRODUÇÃO DE PETRÓLEO: COMPARAÇÃO ENTRE COMPLETAÇÃO SECA E MOLHADA / TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS OF OIL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS: DRY AND WET COMPLETION COMPARISON

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

Around 50% of the Brazilian reserves of hydrocarbons are located in the continental platform in water depths with more than one thousand meters. The freezing temperatures of the sea bottom make problems related to oil production, even more critical. However, the flow assurance challenges are not the only obstacles for the oil production in ultra-deep waters. Besides the aspects related to the geology and economical factors, the decision of development of an offshore oil field adopting a system with wet completion or with dry completion, needs to be supported by discerning analyses of the problems related to flow assurance aspects, mainly in deep and ultra-deep water locations. In these scenarios, a larger variation of the potential energy and consequent intensification of the Joule-Thomson effect, contribute in a much more significant way to the temperature and pressure drops. This work aims to promote the comparison between an oil production system using extended reach wells with a dry completion unit and another system with wet completion, at 850, 1.550 and 2.300m of water depth, evaluating the effects of pressure drop and heat loss in a multiphase flow. Using wet completion, it is evaluated the maximum feasible distances between the producing zone of the formation and the floating production unit, allowing the flow of hydrocarbons without interruption by the formation of paraffin crystals. Based on the reached results, we can reach some important conclusions regarding trend of production systems in deep and ultra-deep water, that will guide the development of oil fields in the near future in the Brazilian continental platform.

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garantia de escoamento completacao submarina producao de petroleo fluxo multifasico subsea completion oil production dry completion flow assurance completacao molhada multiphase flow completacao seca wet completion

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