Piping & API Standards
Flow Assurance in Oil and Gas Production — From Pipeline Design to Operational Troubleshooting
Multiphase flow behaviour, hydrate, wax and scale management, slugging, pressure and temperature control, pipeline design considerations and operational troubleshooting for producing oil and gas systems.
Industry focus: Exploration & Production (Upstream Oil & Gas)
Who Should Attend
Designed for these roles
- Production, process and facilities engineers in upstream operations
- Pipeline and subsea engineers handling design or integrity
- Operations engineers troubleshooting throughput and blockage problems
- Chemists and chemical treatment specialists supporting production
Delivery formats
- Customised in-house training at your plant or office
- Public classroom delivery, subject to schedule
- Live online delivery where suitable
- Recommended group size: 8–20 participants
Problems Solved
What this course fixes
Production loss from hydrate or wax blockage repeated each shutdown
Chemical injection rates set by vendor default rather than by system need
Severe slugging destabilising separators and compression
Restart procedures written without flow assurance analysis
Learning Outcomes
What participants can do after the programme
Outcomes are written as tasks, not topics — so managers can verify capability back at work.
- Interpret multiphase flow regimes, holdup and pressure drop behaviour
- Assess hydrate formation risk and select prevention or remediation strategy
- Manage wax, asphaltene and scale deposition, including pigging strategy
- Diagnose severe slugging and identify practical mitigation
- Review a shutdown and restart procedure against flow assurance risk
Course Outline
Detailed programme content
Day 1 — Multiphase Flow Basics
- Fluid characterisation, PVT behaviour and phase envelopes
- Flow regimes, holdup, pressure drop and thermal behaviour
- Steady-state modelling: what the model can and cannot tell you
Day 2 — Solids & Chemistry
- Hydrates: formation, prevention, inhibition and dissociation
- Wax, asphaltene and scale management including pigging
- Corrosion, erosion and sand management interactions
Day 3 — Operations & Troubleshooting
- Severe slugging, liquid loading and stability control
- Shutdown, cooldown and restart strategy
- Workshop: troubleshoot participant field cases
Practical Work
Practical exercises and case studies
Sessions are built around calculations, data interpretation and technical decisions. Case material is generic or anonymised — no client-confidential project data is used.
Hydrate formation risk assessment and inhibitor dosage estimation
Flow regime and pressure drop interpretation from multiphase model output
Pigging and chemical treatment strategy exercise for a waxy crude line
Shutdown, cooldown and restart procedure review against flow assurance risk
Trainer Profile
Delivered by Ir. Lim Chee Keong
Senior Trainer — Piping, Flow Assurance & API Standards
20 years industry experience
Chee Keong specialises in the messy middle of brownfield work — where drawings are outdated, the line is live, and the shutdown window is already booked. He teaches decision-making, not just clause numbers.
Real project exposure
- Piping stress and support redesign after repeated flange leaks at a Gebeng chemical plant
- Hot tapping and temporary repair strategy for a live utility header
- Brownfield tie-in package reviews for an upstream gas processing platform
Certifications
- API 570 Piping Inspector
- ASME B31.3 Process Piping Practitioner
- Caesar II Stress Analysis
Trainer allocation is confirmed in your proposal. Substitute trainers hold equivalent certification and sector experience.
Next Step
Run this programme for your team
We will confirm available dates, trainer, duration and HRD Corp claimable investment — and adjust the outline to your equipment and standards at no extra cost.
No obligation. Proposals include HRD Corp claim guidance.
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