Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for liquid control in multiphase fluid pipelines
- Patent Title (中): 多相流体管道液体控制方法
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Application No.: US12599862Application Date: 2008-04-28
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Publication No.: US08453747B2Publication Date: 2013-06-04
- Inventor: Henning Holm
- Applicant: Henning Holm
- Applicant Address: NO Stavanger
- Assignee: Statoilhydro ASA
- Current Assignee: Statoilhydro ASA
- Current Assignee Address: NO Stavanger
- Agency: Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
- Priority: NO20072523 20070516
- International Application: PCT/NO2008/000150 WO 20080428
- International Announcement: WO2008/140319 WO 20081120
- Main IPC: E21B43/34
- IPC: E21B43/34 ; E21B43/40

Abstract:
A method for control of liquid or liquid slugs in multi phase fluid pipelines, including a multiphase pipeline for the transportation of a fluid, consisting of mainly gas and some liquid such as water an/or gas condensate. The gas is evacuated via a gas separation unit connected to the multiphase pipeline to a second gas transport pipe, and the liquid is fed to a dedicated pipeline section acting as a buffer volume pipeline. The separation unit includes one or several vertical pipes connected at a distance from one another along the multiphase pipeline, whereby the gas is transported separately to a downstream processing facility on a platform or onshore or the like, and whereby the liquid proceeds to the loop which may preferably be an extension of the multiphase pipeline, or the liquid and gas may be re-combined and led in a common transport pipeline to the desired destination.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100155075A1 METHOD FOR LIQUID CONTROL IN MULTIPHASE FLUID PIPELINES Public/Granted day:2010-06-24
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