Description
This presentation will review a few practical examples of hydrate remediation activities from Anadarko’s deepwater portfolio. We’ll examine the use of a 3/8” capillary tubing unit to dissolve a hydrate plug on a dry tree well in the deepwater GOM. We’ll also look at pressure disassociation of a hydrate plug in a subsea looped flowline, and chemical dissolution of a hydrate plug in a subsea flowline where pressures were too high to allow disassociation.
Kevin Renfro is the Deepwater Production Engineering Manager for Anadarko Petroleum, based in Houston, Texas. He graduated with a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1985. Kevin's career includes 3 years with ARCO Oil and Gas in Oklahoma and West Texas as a production engineer, and 4 years with ARCO Alaska in both Anchorage and onsite on the North Slope working the Kuparuk Field as an operations engineer. He has worked for Anadarko Petroleum for the past 16 years, the first 3 in Midland and the last 13 in Houston, primarily in offshore production and completions engineering. He received the SPE Gulf Coast North America Region Award for Excellence in Production Engineering & Operations in 2006.
Steve’s Biography:
Steve Ashcraft is a Staff Production Engineer in Anadarko’s Deepwater GOM Production Engineering Group, based in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1995. Steve’s career includes 2 years with OGCI, Management as a learning organization consultant, 4 years with Baker Hughes as a project engineer within their equity division and 4 years as a drilling optimization engineer with Hughes Christensen, with assignments including the Gulf Coast, Rockies, North Sea, Offshore Newfoundland, and Brazil. He has worked as a completions and production engineer for Anadarko Petroleum in The Greater Natural Buttes Unit near Vernal, Utah for the past 3 years, and recently moved into the Deepwater GOM production engineering position with responsibilities for the Boomvang Spar.