08:50 Chairman’s welcome and opening remarks

09:00 Ensuring flow assurance in your operations through utilising the correct mix of required chemicals and technologies

• Overcoming challenges in flow assurance methods through evidence of solids recovered from production units
• Utilising chemicals and surveillance modelling technologies to mitigate problems

Dr. Mark Grutters
Production Chemist Iraq Majnoon
Shell EP International Limited

09:30 Improving pipeline operations through selecting optimal flow assurance methods

• Analysing the use of multiphase transient simulators to support pipeline chemical treatments through drag reducers and foamers
• Evaluating the setup process of pigging programmes in pipelines based on unknown internal conditions and the use of instrumented pigs

10:00 Incorporating flow assurance measures into the exploration phases

• Considering the current lab testing techniques and improving the methods used
• Analysing the current production limitations and preventing unstable flows to secure assets

Professor Peter King
Petroleum Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering
Imperial College

10:30 Uninterrupted operation and preventive maintenance of pipelines through timely identification flow assurance problems caused by changes in operating conditions

• Discussing typical internal corrosion problems in oil pipelines, gas pipelines, onshore and offshore flowlines
• Improving design, operating and maintenance recommended practices and standards using recent advances in multiphase flow modelling

Yuri Fairuzov Ph.D.
CEO and Principal Consultant
Multiphase Engineering & Consulting

11:30 Well instability and effect of gas lift

• Challenges with slugging in wells
• Limits with conventional gas lift design using steady state simulation
• Improved gas lift design to address well instabilities using dynamic simulation.
• Optimized operation of gas lifted well with dynamic simulation

Kapil Thakur
Principle Consultant and Well Champion
SPT Group

13:10 Discussing the mechanistic aspects on oilfield scale mitigation to ensure optimisation

• Analysing the techniques and technology involved in scale formation, inhibition and dissolution to understand optimum techniques to apply to your business
• Discussing the laboratory and modelling techniques used in diagnosis, chemical selection and optimisation

Dr. Ghada Bassioni
Chair of the Women’s Initiative,
AIChE,Abu Dhabi (UAE) Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Program The Petroleum Institute

13:50 Discussing the use of a capillary string to inject foaming agents

• Understanding the use of a fail safe injection system with capillary string to reduce liquid load in gas wells
• Learning the best way to remove the liquid loading using foaming agents
• Implementing the “fail-safe injection system with capillary string”.

Marco Pelucchi
Drilling and Completion Engineer
Eni Spa

15:00 Chair’s closing remarks and end of conference day two