Abstract:

The paper presents how can be managed the flow assurance optimization problem in a gas transport network. The solution resides in the capability to incorporate multiple disciplinary information and data using analytic methodology to provide the means to plan, balance the physical and commercial flow, simulate, optimize and monitor.

By incorporating dynamic and static information in relation to the overall transport stream, we’re able to effectively create a process of simulation and optimization which would allow the users to plan, simulate, optimize and monitor from a production to customer perspective for a time span of near real time to one month look ahead.

Optimization provides the capabilities for automated recommendation based on commercial, operational, engineering and contractual requirements. The possibility to expand into an optimization based on cost benefit analysis was the next normal step.