Arrangement of an unmanned and remotely operated production facility
AssigneeKværner AS
InventorsOdd Inge Stuedal, Arne Budal
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Abstract
An arrangement of an unmanned and remotely operated production facility comprising a wellhead platform including a wellhead assembly having an X-mas tree, a flowline transporting hydrocarbon fluids produced from a well via said wellhead assembly to one or more consecutive process equipment(s), and further on to a destination via a transport line. Any process equipment and/or pipeline section located at a higher level than said outlet point from said wellhead assembly, is arranged to either drain back to the x-mas tree, or drain downstream to said transport pipeline by assistance of respective valves arranged along said flowline.
Claims9
An arrangement of an unmanned and remotely operated production facility, the arrangement comprising:
- a wellhead platform including a wellhead assembly having a X-mas tree and a wellhead-assembly outlet point (A);
- a flowline starting from the wellhead-assembly outlet point (A) from the X-mas tree and transporting hydrocarbon fluids produced from a well via the wellhead assembly to consecutive process equipment, and further on to a destination via a transport pipeline;
- wherein said transport pipeline starts at a point B located at a level lower than the wellhead outlet point A;
- wherein at least one of the process equipment and a pipeline section is located at a higher level than the wellhead-assembly outlet point A or the transport pipeline starting point B so that the hydrocarbon fluids drain back to the X-mas tree or drain downstream to the transport pipeline at least in part via valves and associated piping arranged with the respective process equipment along the flowline;
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- wherein the associated piping is not in the flowline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.