Changing the Hydrate Management Guidelines: From Benchtop Experiments to CSMHyK Field Simulations

High-pressure and low-temperature conditions during subsea pipeline transportation favor the formation of gas hydrates and may create challenging flow assurance problems. Once gas hydrates have plugged the pipeline, it is usually difficult and costly to remediate. To prevent hydrate plugging, rigorous hydrate management guidelines need to be formulated and implemented at an affordable cost. Current hydrate management guidelines are mostly based on fluid analysis and benchtop experimental results, which may not represent the actual field conditions. Based on this situation, a simulation tool that can bridge the gap between benchtop experiments and field pipeline transportation conditions is needed. In this paper, a methodology is proposed to combine benchtop ultralow volume (