Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150100785

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP150100785

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Controlling hydrate slurry flow to enable deepwater oil and gas production. This project aims to investigate the plugging of hydrate slurries in pipelines to determine under what conditions they will flow satisfactorily without forming a blockage. Hydrate blockages are expensive and hazardous occurrences in oil and gas operations, so current prevention systems aim to avoid hydrate formation altogether through over-design. These over-designed hydrate prevention systems are extremely expensive to build and costly to run during the operations phase. The project intends to examine the behaviour of hydrate slurry flow as a function of the oil's properties, amount of water and degree of turbulence. Outcomes are intended to be a sophisticated approach to avoiding hydrate blockages that is safe but more efficient and less costly.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-12-2015

End Date: 31-03-2019

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $420,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Rheology | Chemical Engineering | Powder and Particle Technology | Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Oil and Gas Extraction |

Other Keywords

Chemical Engineering | Oil and Gas Extraction | Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering | Powder and Particle Technology | Rheology

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