Experiments on Multiphase Flow of Live Muds in a Full-Scale Wellbore with Distributed Sensing for Kick and Gas-in-riser Detection/Mitigation

Description: Pressure barriers provide the primary means of preventing uncontrolled hydrocarbon releases in offshore wells. However, these barriers are only effective if they have been designed, properly operated, and maintained for the conditions of the environment in which they are employed. The project focuses on gaps in understanding about the behavior of riser gas under high temperature and pressure. Testing will be done using an existing well retrofitted with pressure and temperature sensors to produce data for validating and verifying riser gas models that inform design of pressure barriers and techniques for preventing uncontrolled hydrocarbon releases.

Dataset for: Well-scale multiphase flow characterization and validation using distributed fiber-optic sensors for gas kick monitoring

Full-scale circulation and migrations flow tests in the wellbore

Fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data from multiphase flow experiments

Gas absorption data obtained under experimental conditions of varying pressures and superficial gas velocities

LSU full scale riser gas experimental data Dec 2020