PetE 668
Flow Assurance
Description
This course provides a comprehensive overview of flow assurance challenges and management strategies in oil and natural gas flowlines and pipelines. Students will explore the core chemical and physical fundamentals driving fluid behavior, including surface and dispersion phenomena, thermodynamics of nucleation and crystal growth, and complex multiphase flows.The curriculum introduces critical risk factors, categorized by their operational timelines into fast-forming and slowly-forming hazards. Backed by solid sensing and mitigation strategies, this course equips students with the engineering principles required to maintain uninterrupted production and transport in the oil and gas industry.
Learning Outcomes
- Name and describe fast- and slowly- forming flow assurance risk factors in oil and gas pipelines.- Articulate the roles of various types of dispersions that impact the range of flow assurance risk factors in different ways.
- Contrast different modes of nucleation and crystal growth of undesirable phases.
- Articulate various flow patterns and flow pattern transitions in two-phase flows of liquid and gas and two-phase flows of condensed phases, instabilities that lead to said flow pattern transitions, and modes of accumulation of one phase over the other.
- Name and describe the contemporary prevention strategies of each major flow assurance risk factor and articulate the compatibility issues involved
- Name and describe the contemporary remediation strategies.
| Lecture | Seminar | Lab | Credits | Total AU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 3 | 37.8 |
| M % | NS % | CS % | ES % | ED % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
None defined
None defined
Undergraduate Program(s)
Sections & Respective Instructors
| B1 - 2026/2027 - Winter - Nobuo Maeda |
| B1 - 2025/2026 - Winter - Nobuo Maeda |
| B1 - 2024/2025 - Winter - Nobuo Maeda |