Events

Dr. Hariprasad Subramani, Flow Assurance - Senior Advisor at Chevron Corporation, will be presenting on "Current Trends in Flow Assurance: from R&D to Applications".

Abstract:

The term flow assurance appears to have come into existence in the 1990s when the industry was pushing into harsher environments such as deep water. It was a realization that the industry would need to be able to guarantee flow over longer distances, 24/7 with high reliability, in a high-stakes environment where intervention to rectify issues and blockages would be costly. Risk avoidance as a result was the default flow assurance strategy. We are about 20 years in with the field of flow assurance.  Today, deep water and harsher environments are still a part of the portfolio of assets, but there is pressure to make those assets thrive in a prolonged lower oil price environment and compete for investment capital.  Some of the current trends in Flow Assurance from R&D technology gaps to practices in field applications will be covered in this presentation. 

About Dr. Subramani:

Hariprasad J. Subramani has Chemical Engineering degrees from ACTech (BTech), NUS (MEng), and Purdue (PhD).  He works for Chevron Corporation as a Flow Assurance - Senior Advisor championing R&D and supporting design and operation of deep water oil/gas production facilities.  He is the 2019 Chairman of Society of Petroleum Engineers International Flow Assurance Technical Section and member of advisory committee of the SPE (International) Production & Facilities Discipline.  He is also the recipient of two technical awards (PFC and P&O) from SPE Gulf Coast Region in 2013 and 2016 respectively.