Consulting Services

Neotec personnel have served as fluid hydraulics and thermal analysis consultants on numerous major and minor oil and gas pipeline and production/injection well projects. Our clients have included oil and gas producing companies, pipeline companies, consulting firms, contracting firms, and government agencies. Geographically, these projects, which involve both onshore and offshore systems, have been widely distributed throughout the major producing areas of the world (a detailed geographic scope is outlined below). Consulting services can involve Neotec personnel in actually performing complete major or minor studies, or in simply assisting clients with performing, or reviewing the results of such studies.

Neotec Software clients often contract with us to create hydraulic models of their pipelines, wells, or gathering systems which are then turned over to them for subsequent modeling purposes. This may be due to time constraints or personnel shortages, or they may simply wish to leverage our software knowledge and modeling experience. Inherent in the creation process for existing systems is a requirement to "tune" the model to reproduce or match field measurements. Culling the data, based on our experience and knowledge of the relative importance of various parameters, is one of our most important contributions to this process. Outlines of the type of projects undertaken by Neotec are included below.

Please contact Neotec if you wish to discuss these consulting services and/or associated fees. A list of past consulting projects, software brochures, and/or data requirement templates for Neotec Software, are available upon request.

Geographic Scope

Pipeline Studies

• Design studies / pipeline sizing

• Pipeline capacity determination

• New well tie-ins

• De-bottlenecking

• Evaluation of operating conditions (pressure, temperature, flow rates, velocities, etc.)

• Thermal analyses - insulation sizing, cooldown calculations

• Potential slug volumes / pigging / liquid loading

• Compositional and black oil systems - including sour gas, water, heavy oil, and bitumen

• Steel, fiberglass, high density polyethylene, and GRE (glass fibre reinforced epoxy)

  pipe materials

• Onshore and offshore systems

• Gathering system integrations

• Corrosion - assessment of parameters for corrosion management

• Hydrate formation and mitigation

Well Studies

• Completion and re-completions planning (coiled tubing sizing)

• Wellhead deliverability / decline as a function of reservoir pressure

• Liquid loading (minimum stable flow rates)

• Geometries including casing, tubing, casing-tubing annulus, and both tubing

  and casing-tubing annulus

• Horizontal wells

• Maximum release rate calculations

• Injection - sour gas, water, and steam

• Evaluation of operating conditions (pressure, temperature, flow rates, velocities, etc.)

• Temperature calculations - does surface temperature exceed material specifications,

  influence of annulus fill

• Hydrate prediction

• Continuous gas lift

• Circulation of hot fluid for temperature maintenance (water, oil, glycol)

  i.e. to prevent formation of hydrates, wax or elemental sulphur

• UBD planning support

Deliverability Forecasting

• Build and history match models for use by clients

• Update existing models

• Long-term model maintenance and development

• Evaluate acquisitions

• Multiple models over an operating area

• On-site supervision of model building efforts

• Production optimization

• Capacity evaluation

• Gathering system modifications (eg. new well tie-ins)

• Compressor evaluations (size, location, operating conditions)

• Field development scheduling

• Competitive drainage assessment

• Onshore and offshore systems

• Fluid systems including gas, gas-water, and gas-condensate

For further information about our Consulting Services, please contact info@NEOTEC.COM or (403) 277-6688.