Oil & Gas

Overview FPSO Subsea Hydraulic Control

Overview

Achieving operating cost targets and agreed production rates while meeting regulatory safety standards can lead to extremely challenging design issues for the oil and gas industry.

Probably the most significant fluid phenomena when transporting fluids efficiently and safely is the prediction of pressure surges within the system due to changes in operating conditions.

We recognise the challenges you face in ensuring these systems are safe and efficient and strive to develop technology to meet your needs.

Traditionally pressure surges are calculated from simplified spreadsheet calculations or in-house developed software and have several disadvantages:

Generally pressure is only predicted for a single event at a few locations around the system
Calculations don’t accurately take into effect the influence of changes in component behaviour
Complex systems with many design iterations become cumbersome and slow perform
Quality assurance and validation of in-house software cost excessive amounts of time and money

By adopting a more progressive approach using Flowmaster you are ensuring that you can accurately predict pressure surges and track the formation of cavities around the whole system for all conceivable operating conditions which leads to:

A cost reduction to routinely over designed systems
A reduced exposure to risk and therefore cost to correct failures from under design
Reduced software auditing costs from software that is validated against real systems and maintained in accordance to ISO9001.

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