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Subsea gas-liquid separation helps boost production rates

10/26/2009
By Guntis Moritis
Subsea gas-liquid separation combined with pressure boosting allows the development of fields that have insufficient tubinghead flowing pressure for attaining adequate production rates to the host facility.The last few years have seen installation or planned installation of a variety of subsea processing schemes. The projects differ in scope but all aim to allow or improve oil recovery from subsea completed wells. The projects have included gravity-based separation as well as other separation techniques.FMC Technologies Inc. has been involved in several subsea processing projects including Tordis in the North Sea, Cascade-Chinook and Perdido in the Gulf of Mexico, BC-10 off Brazil, and Pa...
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