Handling scale in oil production facilities. Oilfield scale mainly comprises inorganic salts, the most common being calcium carbonates and barium and strontium sulphates.
In 1998-2000 the first generation of multiphase meters were installed at StatoilHydro operated fields.
Multiphase flow simulators are currently based on one-dimensional, ‘mechanistic’ flow models.
Multiphase flow may be obstructed by physical phenomena such as liquid slugs or surges, or by physical-chemical phenomena.
An active slug control system on the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea has produced a more stable wellstream flow into the first stage separator.
