forever handling bubbles-key players in multiphase pumping

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 621 KB
• Volume: 2000
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(00)88313-3

✦ Synopsis

Muitiphase fluid handling is of great interest to the oil industry. Significant capital and operating expenditure can be saved by producers, if the capability exists to handle crude oil with large amounts of gas and water and even some solids. Michael Cotter looks at the benefits of this technology and at the organisations who are currently pioneering it.

The gas-liquid ratio in multiphase fluids can vary tremendously --