ACONA FLOW TECHNOLOGY
Company presentation – Blowout and wellkill competence
A MEMBER OF THE ACONA GROUP
• More than 300 professionals
• 4 areas of expertise:
Drilling management and well engineering
Petroleum technology
Risk & compliance management
Flow technology
• Fully operational emergency response centre – of the
highest standard
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SENIOR PERSONNEL USING THE BEST TOOLS
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Kristin Dyb, MSc Senior Advisor - Well Management
- Process
Trygve Rinde, MSc, MBA Manager/Specialist - Well Management - Flow assurance
Vegar Grüner, MSc Senior Advisor - Well Management
- Flow assurance
Marit Kleven, PhD Senior Advisor - CFD - Flow assurance
Rune Killie, MSc Specialist - Well Management - Flow assurance
Tron Solberg, PhD/Prof. Specialist - CFD
- Flow assurance
Eirik Manger, PhD Specialist - CFD
Liv Thorsen, MSc Senior Advisor - Flow assurance
- Process
Lars Solli, PhD Senior Advisor - Well Management
- Flow assurance
Tor Heitmann, MSc, MBA Specialist - Flow assurance
- Process
WELL MANAGEMENT
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We work together with clients looking for:
- Well design advisory and Consent to drill approval from PSA
- Emergency response teams
- IWCF certified specialist with extensive operational experience
Blowout studies: - Blowout modelling - Wellkill modelling Well design studies: - Inflow modelling - AICD/ICD modelling - Clean-up modelling - Solids modelling
• Scale • Wax • Hydrates • Asphaltene
- Gas lift modelling - Corrosion and erosion
prediction
Blowout study output: - Blowout Contingency Plans - Relief Well design - Detailed Wellkill programs Well design study output: - Gas lift/tubular design - Inflow control - Material selection - Input to fluid program - Perforation strategies - Chemical management
MULTIPHASE FLOW ASSURANCE
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We work together with clients looking for:
- Best Multiphase Transport Technology
- How transport and chemical properties influences on the process design and operability
- Operational experience combined with academic excellence
Flow assurance study: - Multiphase flow
modelling - Fluid modelling - Solids modelling
• Scale • Wax • Asphaltene • Hydrates
- Thermal modelling - Emulsion prediction - Corrosion and erosion
prediction
Study output: - Pipeline design and operation - Riser design - Gas lift design - Slug control design and
management - Insulation design, heatup and
cooldown simulations - Material selection - Input to topside process
design - Solids management - Chemical management
Separation technology
SPECIAL COMPENTENCE AREAS
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Client Delivery
Thermodynamics and Physics
Physio-chemical properties
Fluid phenomena and mechanisms
Computer skills Operational experiences
Process design
PRESENTATION OF RESOURCES
• Trygve Rinde (Manager/Specialist)
– KEY QUALIFICATIONS • Well Control & Blowout management, IWCF Certified
• Flow assurance, design and remedial actions
• Multiphase modelling
• Production technology; operational and engineering
• Subsea system, operational and engineering
• Hydrates and hydrate philosophy; scientific, design and operational
• Risk management
– PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT • Acona, Altinex, Norsk Hydro ASA
About Trygve:
"Broad operational experience combined with numerical insight. Known as the critical reviewer of every new modelling tool"
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PRESENTATION OF RESOURCES
• Vegar Grüner (Senior Advisor)
– KEY QUALIFICATIONS
• Well Control & Blowout management, IWCF Certified
• Adaptive control structures
• Multiphase modelling
• Instrumentation and control
• Offshore field experience
• Interdisciplinary experience
– PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
• Acona, Aibel, ABB
About Vegar:
"Skilled cybernetician with operational insight and professional humility"
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PRESENTATION OF RESOURCES
• Rune Killie (Specialist)
– KEY QUALIFICATIONS • Simulation champion for multiphase flow
• Olga and CFD simulations
• Virtual flow metering and allocation
• Blowout and wellkill simulations
• Well clean-up simulations
• Heat transfer and insulation design
• Design optimization of process components
• Development of flow models and software tools
– PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT • Acona, FMC, ABB
About Rune:
"Extreme theoretical skills, best described by one word - thoroughness"
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PRESENTATION OF RESOURCES
• Lars Solli (Senior Advisor)
– KEY QUALIFICATIONS
• Simulation for multiphase flow
• Pipeline sizing and insulation design
• Olga and CFD simulations
• Long experience with applied science and technology development
– PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
• Acona, Aker Solutions, NorChip, NTNU
About Lars:
"Still delivering at Phd level. Precision and humility combined"
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PRESENTATION OF RESOURCES
• Kristin Dyb (Senior Advisor)
– KEY QUALIFICATIONS • Offshore operational support
• Process design and troubleshooting
• Process optimization
• Risk management
• Flow Assurance
• Project management
• OLGA and CFD simulations
• Blowout and wellkill simulations
– PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT • Acona, AFP Operations, Kongsberg Maritime, Mator, Emerson, Statoil
About Kristin:
"Been onboard more offshore rigs than you can imagine, world wide experience"
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EXPERIENCE, INSIGHT AND QUALITY
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BLOWOUT CONTINGENCY PLANNING
Acona Flow Technology, a member of the Acona Group, provide blowout contingency planning services to a wide range of operators world wide.
Our deliverables and advisory services ensure that internal and external legislations are met.
Typically, our specialists will advise and assist within the following engineering tasks:
– Well design, completion and casing program
– Blowout potentials
– Oil-spill potentials
– Dynamic near-wellbore modelling
– Well-kill requirements
– Relief-well design
– Fluid and pumping program
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BLOWOUT MODELING
• Detailed modeling of the well’s blowout potentials:
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WIRTH 1600 HP
Drilling
BOP
Sealevel
Drilling
BOP
Sealevel
Drilling
BOP
Sealevel
DYNAMIC WELLKILL MODELING
• Objective: Document wellkill requirements within:
– available fluid properties
– available relief well capacities
– available rig pump capacities
– available rig pit capacities
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WIRTH 1600 HP Source: http://www.impactlab.com
RELIEF WELL KILL-MODELLING
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WELL CONTROL ASSISTANCE
Acona Flow Technology provides trained specialist to the
operator in case of a well-control situation. We provide tailor-
made engineering services and ensure that the strategies for
efficient normalization and re-establishment of the well
barriers are feasible.
Typical: – Design of relief well or bullheading operations
– Dynamic simulations to ensure accurate preparations
– Handling of complex subsurface situations such as underground blowouts or x-flow.
– Detailed documentation of required fluid and pumping program
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EMERGENCY RESPONSE
• Wellkill planning and well control advisory
Transient kill simulations as mandatory documentation of
kill capability and to assist well engineering teams
• Emergency response teams
IWCF certified teams available to assist planning,
preparation and execution of wellkill operations worldwide
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SUM-UP
• Skilled and experienced team
• 19 yrs of industry experience in average
• Updated software models
• IWCF certificated personell
• More than 80 individual well studies delivered
• 10 complete BCP's delivered
• Capacity of 70 – 100 studies / yr
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BLOWOUT AND WELL KILL ANALYSES REFERENCE CLIENTS
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• Aker Exploration
• Det Norske Oljeselskap
• Centrica
• ConocoPhillips
• Nexen
• Dong – Norge
• Dong - Denmark
• Statoil – Norge
• Statoil - Brazil
• Statoil - Tanzania
• Lundin
• Wintershall
• Odfjell Rig Management
• Total
• Idemitsu
• Maersk
• Shell Norge AS
PASSIONATE
PARTNER
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