Flow assurance peer review for this large deepwater heavy oil development, offshore West Africa.  This was facilitated by Maximus modelling of the  production systems from the reservoir to the FPSO.  Supported the Woodside team in the liaison with the FPSO and topsides contractors. 

Maximus IPM models have been built to assist BP in investigating the feasibility of numerous new tiebacks proposed by their Joint Development Partners.

BP’s flow assurance consultant of choice during the conceptual design phase of six deepwater developments offshore Angola. This involved numerous Maximus IPM and flow assurance studies to verify the deliverability, thermal performance and operability of hundreds of proposed configurations, in collaboration with BP reservoir and facilities engineers.  Key to the success of this series of projects was the development of hydrate management operating guidelines.

When the first Angola Programme project moved out of the “Select Phase”, FEESA-IPM seconded some of its key consultants into the FEED contractor’s team.  This ensured better flow assurance continuity between the design phases, improved the contractor’s learning curve, and removed thermal hydraulic simulations from the critical path for the pipeline, subsea and integrity management studies, thus improving the efficiency of FEED as a whole.

Developed the flow assurance strategy for BP’s Greater Plutonio Development. This work included life of field steady state and transient studies to prove that the project could operate successfully.