Offshore Gas Gathering Network and Pipeline Analysis Using PIPESIM

This project is about modeling and analyzing gas gathering network and pipeline to
obtain an optimize gas production from wells to the gas processing plant and to the pipeline.
The oil and gas company are looking for betterment in the gas gathering network in order to
achieve the best gas gathering design and to increase the production optimization. This
project will evaluate two different case studies which have different design criteria and
reservoir properties. Both case studies have specific objective to obtain at the end of the
project. For the first case study the main objective is to evaluate a looped gas gathering
network from three different wells data. In this case study, the last result will be the
deliverability of gas gathering network. In the second case study, the main objective is to
model a pipeline to transport condensate form a satellite platform to a processing platform.
The end result to be obtained in the second case study is to evaluate and select the pipeline
size and to evaluate the pipeline insulation requirement. Basically this project is utilizing the
PIPES 1M software as a medium to analyze both cases. Most of the modeling and graphs are
made from this software. Comparisons between the results are made between software and
theory. From this project I had increase my ability of analyzing and understanding the basic
principal of surface facilities and pipeline system. At the end of the project, there will be
discussion made to both cases in order to increase the deliverability of the gathering network
and pipeline systems.