Flow Assurance in Pipelines: A Reference Guide

About Antonin ChapoyJonathan J. WyldeJuan Manzano-RuizSaeid Mokhatab

Dr. Saeid Mokhatab is an internationally renowned process expert in the fields of natural gas transmission and processing. Over the past two decades he has been actively involved in different phases of several large-scale projects in the natural gas midstream sector from conceptual design through facilities startup and operational support. He has also provided consulting services and expert guidance to a number of pioneering technology-based and operating companies in Canada and Europe. He has made significant contributions to his areas of expertise through four reference books (published by Elsevier in the USA) and more than 300 technical papers many of which have been coauthored with leading experts from the largest international engineering companies and prominent process licensors. To bridge the gap between engineering and the science of natural gas he founded Elseviers peer-reviewed Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering” which has become a leading publication in the field. He has been an editorial contributor for the 14th edition of the GPSA Engineering Data Book and has served on the editorial or advisory boards of several other notable publications pertaining to the midstream business. He is a lifetime member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and has served that organization in various capacities including as a board member of the London Section. He has also been active in other professional organizations including the Gas Processors Association Europe (GPAE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has delivered several invited lectures and short courses for both commercial and academic institutions and has served on the technical program and advisory committees of many acclaimed midstream gas conferences worldwide. He has received several international awards for his outstanding work and has been featured in a number of prestigious biographical directories. Dr. Juan Jose Manzano-Ruiz has extensive international oil & gas field development experience over the past 40+ years in shallow deepwater and onshore Flow Assurance (FA) as a technical team lead project manager asset manager and R&D technical contributor. He is currently President of PetroConsulting and Associates LLC in Katy Texas. Prior to this he worked for over 23 years at two major integrated companies PDVSA and BP in a variety of roles as Team Lead of R&D Manager of Commercialization Team Lead of Process Engineering Facilities Manager Sr. Production Engineer and Asset Manager of an oil field in western Venezuela. He also served as Manager of Process Engineering for Jacobs Engineering Manager of Flow Assurance for Technip-Genesis and Flow Assurance Manager for Bechtel Oil & Gas supporting numerous offshore/onshore oil & gas field development projects on behalf of Clients such as BP Exxon-Mobil Shell Chevron Pemex CNOOC ADNOC Petrobras Enterprise Enbridge Burlington Resources Lukoil Newfield Exploration Oiltanking PTTEP Schlumberger and West Engineering. While working at PDVSA he taught for 16 years several graduate and undergraduate mechanical and chemical engineering courses in Thermodynamics Fluid Mechanics Turbulent Fluid Flow Compressible Fluid Flow Multiphase Fluid Flow Advanced Heat Transfer Numerical Methods and Optimization of Thermal Systems at Universidad Simon Bolivar and Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas Venezuela. After some time as an Adjunct Professor he was granted Tenure as Full Professor of Engineering at Universidad Simon Bolivar. In the period 1991-1994 he was admitted into the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bristol UK as a Visiting Professor and Researcher in drag-reduction of turbulent fluid flow. He has received the SME recognition from Technips College of Experts (Paris France) and the Bechtels Distinguished Engineer acknowledgment. He has been engaged in several professional organizations throughout his career including the GPA Midstream ASME Multiphase Flow Committee SPE Flow Assurance Technical Group and AIChE Flow Assurance Forum; and has taught a number of training courses to oil & gas industry personnel with the Fleming organization. He received his PhD Mech. E. and MSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his BSc degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello Caracas Venezuela. He also completed his MBA Minor Program from MIT Sloan Business School and holds a Professional Engineering license in the State of Texas USA. Prof. Antonin Chapoy is a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University UK. He started his career at Heriot-Watt University in 2004 joining the Centre for Gas Hydrate Research (now the Hydrates Flow Assurance & Phase Equilibria Research Group-HFAPE). His research interests include experimental measurement and thermodynamic modelling of fluid phase equilibria thermophysical properties gas hydrates wax and flow assurance. With over 24 years of research experience he has managed a wide range of projects predominately sponsored by industry. He teaches courses at postgraduate level as well as offering several short courses to the industry. He is the author or coauthor of over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals 2 book chapters 3 patents and more than 200 technical reports and conference papers primarily concerning gas hydrates flow assurance transport properties thermophysical properties of fluids and water-hydrocarbon phase behaviour. As of June 06 2024 he has more than 7031 citations with an h-index of 49. He sits or has been involved in the editorial boards of many peer-reviewed scientific journals including the Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering and Molecules. Since 2014 he is also an Associate Fellow with the Centre of Thermodynamics of Processes of Mines ParisTech France. He holds a DEA (MSc) in Chemical Engineering from Université d'Aix-Marseille (2001) an MSc in Energy Engineering from Institut Universitaire des Systémes Thermiques et Industriels (2001) and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Paris School of Mines (2004). Dr. Jonathan J. Wylde serves as the Technical Director at SPL based in Houston TX USA where he oversees the technical decision making and recommendations made by the flow assurance testing and engineering consultancy team serving as the in-house subject matter expert for production chemistry. Prior to this he spent 20 years at Clariant Oil and Mining Services in the USA latterly as the Global Head of Innovation where he was responsible for global application development and innovation. Since joining Clariant in 2002 as a senior development chemist he successfully contributed to innovation and development advancement across multiple Clariant Oil and Mining Services channels including technical operational sales and business development. Jonathan obtained a BSc (Hons) in Geology and a PhD in Physical Chemistry both from the University of Bristol in the UK. Over the past two decades he has been extensively published in the peer reviewed literature conference proceedings book chapters and patents across a wide range of production chemistry topics many of which have been highly cited by the industry and academia. His publication record of over 225 separate articles as well as activities with Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland has earned him an Honorary Associate Professorship. He is a member in good standing of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for over 20 years and has served on its technical and program committees for the International Scale Conference Oilfield Chemical Symposium and Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE); and currently serves as an Associate Editor for SPE Production & Operations Journal and as a Technical Editor for SPE JPT and the SPE Journal.