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Sand Management
 
Optimise Production, Reduce Risk & Save Costs
 

A large proportion of worldwide oil and gas extraction results in significant solids production, which can cause major problems for operators. Solids production can result in unacceptable levels of sand settlement in process equipment, high levels of erosion of critical control components, enhanced corrosion of process equipment and ultimately loss of containment.

Sand / erosion monitoring is a critical aspect of Sand Management. iicorr offers a field proven unique service to detect and quantify solids production and optimise well performance, whether through Maximum Sand Free Rate (MSFR) or Acceptable Sand Rate (ASR) philosophies The system provides accurate, low-level, online detection and quantification of produced solids and erosion development.

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Operational Benefits
 
  • Real time continuous online monitoring
  • Acts as an early warning system, protecting system integrity
  • Optimise production rates within safe limits
  • Reduce or eliminate critical erosion of process and control components
  • Improved levels of safety
  • Minimise downtime and sand deposition
  • Increased asset utilisation through production regularity
  • Reduce inspection intervals
  • Confirmation of the integrity of any solids exclusion measures
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Service
iicorr's sand management service is specifically tailored to the client's requirements, establishing individual critical criteria within well groups through detailed assessment of production and operational requirements or limitations. Service features include:
  • Internationally recognised expertise
  • Installation & commissioning
  • Engineering and operational support
  • Initial screening of wells and critical component analysis
  • Review and application of System Management; health checks, maintenance schedules and data interpretation, management and reporting
  • Detailed assessment for individual wells
  • Continuous monitoring of solids and erosion development
  • Subsea and topsides management (where applicable)
  • Optional erosion prediction modelling
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Product
The monitoring technology offers unparralled detection methods in all flow regimes for both topside and subsea. The systems provide cost effective field proven hardware with realtime software for best in class topside and subsea data capture.
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image courtesy of Roxar CorrOcean
Product features include:
  • Subsea and topsides applications
  • Combined sand / corrosion applications
  • Combined sand / erosion / pressure / temperature for subsea applications
  • Intrusive monitoring, direct accumulative erosion in piping
  • Responds within minutes of solids production
  • Sand production rates, based on sand particle sizes and production parameters
  • Real time graphs, reporting any solids production anomalies
  • Can be interfaced with Data Control System, i.e. SCADA, RTU, Honeywell etc.
  • Complimented with erosion modelling design and verification (if required).
  • Optional topsides probe retrieval tool (removal under pressure)
  • No onsite calibration required; not influenced by noise and works equally well in single or multiphase flow
  • Continuous monitoring of solids production and erosion development
  • Multiple elements for redundancy and consistent averaging
Sand management images
image courtesy of Roxar CorrOcean
Sand management images
image courtesy of Roxar CorrOcean
iicorr delivers internationally field proven systems based solutions tailored to meet client requirements. Our value driven service provides operators with the information required to protect their assets, safely optimise production and reduce expenditure thereby maximising the value of their investment.
 
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